{"id":9387,"date":"2018-11-11T14:35:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T21:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9387"},"modified":"2018-11-18T14:38:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T21:38:50","slug":"hal-9000-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/11\/hal-9000-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"HAL 9000 Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/pop-culture\/movies\/douglas-rain-creepy-voice-hal-2001-dies-90-n935036\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from NBC News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline___CuovH f8 f9-m fw3 mb3 mt0 founders-cond lh-none f10-xl\">Douglas Rain, the creepy voice of HAL in &#8216;2001,&#8217; dies at 90<\/h1>\n<p>Rain&#8217;s sinuous, detached reading of HAL&#8217;s lines made the computer&#8217;s murders of four astronauts all the more shocking.<\/p>\n<p>By Alex Johnson<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UgkyrW2NiwM\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Douglas Rain, the acclaimed Shakespearean actor whose chilling performance as the voice of the homicidal HAL 9000 computer in &#8220;2001: A Space Odyssey&#8221; rendered the amoral emptiness of outer space in sound, died Sunday at age 90.<\/p>\n<p>The Stratford Festival, the Canadian theater company of which Rain was a founding member in 1953, confirmed his death on Sunday night. A cause of death wasn&#8217;t reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today we lost Douglas Rain, a member of our founding company and a hugely esteemed presence on our stages for 32 seasons,&#8221; the company said. &#8220;He will be greatly missed. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The HAL 9000 computer was the sentient controller of life support, systems and \u2014 although it wasn&#8217;t revealed until later in the movie \u2014 the very mission of Discovery One, the spacecraft that is sent to Jupiter to investigate a mysterious black obelisk in the landmark 1968 science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke.<\/p>\n<p>Rain&#8217;s sinuous, detached reading of HAL&#8217;s lines made the computer&#8217;s murders of three astronauts as they slept in suspended animation and its subsequent stranding of astronaut Frank Poole to die in open space all the more shocking.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/pop-culture\/movies\/douglas-rain-creepy-voice-hal-2001-dies-90-n935036\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to read full article at NBC<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from NBC News Douglas Rain, the creepy voice of HAL in &#8216;2001,&#8217; dies at 90 Rain&#8217;s sinuous, detached reading of HAL&#8217;s lines made the computer&#8217;s murders of four astronauts all the more shocking. By Alex Johnson Douglas Rain, the acclaimed Shakespearean actor whose chilling performance as the voice of the homicidal HAL 9000 computer in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}