Harlan Ellison on Terminator

"There are, on file, to this day, public documents in Federal District Court that memorialize my win in pursuit of Cameron's free'n'easy ways with work he "well, just forgot that I remembered from when I was a kid," or whatever ego-drenched sidestep he uses to excuse simple plagiarism. [And] there are the still-on-file copies of VARIETY and THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER containing detailed precis of the litigation, and ads which credit me on TERMINATOR. Not to mention every goddam tape, CD, Beta, VHS, Blu-Ray and Living Track Cosmic Disc of TERMINATOR that proffers my credit at the beginning of the endtitles..."
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