What do these three people have in common, starting with stop-motion master Ray Harryhausen above? Then me: And finally Hugh Hefner, seen below posing with some attention-seeking blonde woman: Answer: our names are listed consecutively in the 'Acknowledgements' section of Sam Weller's Ray Bradbury biography . I happen to know Sam, and this in no way influences my opinion that he wrote an exceptionally good book about Bradbury's life, and his influence on American culture. I'm a bit mystified as to why I am in that list (for it is indeed I to whom he is referring to). But by coincidence, Sam linked together two very important people in my early teenage life. I was a huge fan of the stop-motion animations of Ray Harryhausen, particularly the Sinbad films . This might have been at the back of my mind when I made my own stop-motion animations as part of an installation a few years ago. And I, let us say, 'put to good use' my stolen copies of Playboy...
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