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In continuation of my tribute to Michael Crichton, this is the second post.

Barry Levinson had made a mess of Sphere, but he did a good job with the other Crichton work Disclosure. I think reason being Levinson is strong with dramatic subjects like Rainman, Tin Men, Good Morning Vietnam and Wag the Dog., but he was clearly out of depth with Sphere’s sci fi, pyschological ethos. Disclosure was a novel, that had many feminists hating it, not surprisingly, because the hero in this book, accuses the heroine of sexually harassing him. Basically the protagonist Tom Sanders working for a high tech firm Digi Com, finds himself being bypassed for promotion, and instead its his former girl friend Meredith Johnson, who gets it, and is now his boss. When he spurns her advances, she files charges of sexual harrasment against Sanders. With his career in jeopardy, …

What connects rampaging dinosaurs in a theme park, fighter albino gorrilas guarding King Solomon’s mines, a murder mystery in the context of US-Japanese relations and a female being accused of sexually harassing a man?

John Michael Crichton, aka Michael Crichton who passed away couple of days back at age of 66 due to cancer.

Well whatever his achievements, if there is one thing that could be said about Crichton, he was the man who made dinosaurs a topic of discussion in the ordinary junta. Till then dinosaurs were something about which we read in school books, and saw in museums. But post Jurassic Park, people started to show a renewed interest in dinosaurs, and every one was discussing about them. Well yes actually it was Spielberg who bought the dinosaurs alive on screen, but it was Crichton’s seminal …