TMC
12-04-2019, 10:18 PM
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/02/michael-crichton-reign-over-pop-culture-jurassic-park-westworld?IG0
He also created video games and the long-running TV show ER. In 1995 he achieved a breathtaking pop-cultural moment when he had the nation’s No. 1 best-selling book (The Lost World), the No. 1 movie (Congo), and the No. 1 TV show (ER), a trifecta he repeated in 1996 with Airframe, Twister, and ER. No one has topped that—not Stephen King, not John Grisham, not J. K. Rowling. At the height of his career, Crichton was reportedly earning $100 million a year. His cultural ubiquity was such that a New Yorker cartoon showed a woman in a bookstore asking, “What can you recommend that’s not by Michael Crichton?”
George Clooney, who credits his long and distinguished career to his breakout role in ER, said that “Michael was always referred to as a Renaissance man. That’s because he was so good at so many things. Doctor. Writer. Director. And he was a stunning six-foot-nine figure. He would walk in the room and all the rest of us mortals felt somewhat inadequate. It was something you had to see. He could reduce giant stars and brilliant directors to little kids looking up to this gentle giant.”
And in ER, the character played by Noah Wyle has certain Crichton-like attributes, so much so that during the run of the show Wyle drummed up the courage to ask the author if, indeed, he was playing a version of Michael Crichton. Wyle explained, “I just assumed, since he wrote it in 1974, after he finished his [time] as a medical student, and my character was finishing his third-year rotation and doing his internship in the E.R., [that] I was playing Michael. And when I broached that to him, he kind of smiled and said that he felt he was a composite of all of the characters. Burst my bubble!”
He also created video games and the long-running TV show ER. In 1995 he achieved a breathtaking pop-cultural moment when he had the nation’s No. 1 best-selling book (The Lost World), the No. 1 movie (Congo), and the No. 1 TV show (ER), a trifecta he repeated in 1996 with Airframe, Twister, and ER. No one has topped that—not Stephen King, not John Grisham, not J. K. Rowling. At the height of his career, Crichton was reportedly earning $100 million a year. His cultural ubiquity was such that a New Yorker cartoon showed a woman in a bookstore asking, “What can you recommend that’s not by Michael Crichton?”
George Clooney, who credits his long and distinguished career to his breakout role in ER, said that “Michael was always referred to as a Renaissance man. That’s because he was so good at so many things. Doctor. Writer. Director. And he was a stunning six-foot-nine figure. He would walk in the room and all the rest of us mortals felt somewhat inadequate. It was something you had to see. He could reduce giant stars and brilliant directors to little kids looking up to this gentle giant.”
And in ER, the character played by Noah Wyle has certain Crichton-like attributes, so much so that during the run of the show Wyle drummed up the courage to ask the author if, indeed, he was playing a version of Michael Crichton. Wyle explained, “I just assumed, since he wrote it in 1974, after he finished his [time] as a medical student, and my character was finishing his third-year rotation and doing his internship in the E.R., [that] I was playing Michael. And when I broached that to him, he kind of smiled and said that he felt he was a composite of all of the characters. Burst my bubble!”