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From: devine@asgb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Gort
Message-ID: <497@asgb.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 12:37:39 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 20 12:37:39 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 10:59:27 EDT
Organization: Burroughs Corporation, San Diego
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  -- From:  "Jim Hester" 
  -- 
  -- If anyone gets a real interview with someone in the know, PASS IT
  -- ON!  All I know offhand is that Klaatu was Michael Renne and Gort
  -- was the (then) bellboy of Grauman's Chinese Restaurant.  The people
  -- in charge of casting were having a hard time finding somebody
  -- right for Gort, and went out for lunch.  They hired him on the
  -- spot.

  Actually, Gort was played by J. Lockard Martin (aka Lock Martin)
who was the doorman at Grauman's, not the bellboy.  He was chosen
for the difficult-to-cast part because he was 7'7'', putting him (ahem)
above the competition...

Bob Devine   Burroughs in Boulder, CO.  (...!sdcrdcf!bmcg!asgb!devine)