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[Chuck Reti]

Some of us had the opportunity to see a play, "The Farnsworth Invention," an "historical drama" based on Philo T.'s life and struggles. It had been performed in southern California, and in fall of 2007, made it to Broadway for a brief few months' run at the Music Box Theatre. It faithfully portrayed some of the well-known incidents, but did play quite fast and loose in reenacting many events around the Farnsworth-Sarnoff battles. Despite this, it was fun to see this bit of video-nerd culture as a Broadway play.
Hank Azaria played Sarnoff, Jimmi Simpson was Farnsworth; writer, Aaron Sorkin ("The West Wing" and other notable efforts).

Chuck Reti
Detroit MI


On Jul 12, 2011, at 12:16 PM, <bill.spencer at northstarstudios.tv> wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification Park.  Even though I have been an avid Farnsworth supporter my entire life, it appears there is much fact that gets turned into urban legend.  I guess I should hunt down some of these books and do a little reading! 
> 
> I had always also heard that Mr. Farnsworth got his ideas from a man who was considered the village idiot in his small town in Utah, but Philo thought there was something to it and he pursued developing the ideas.  The real sci-fi nuts figure he was a time traveler who got stuck there out of his technological world with no one to understand him except Philo Farnsworth.  It would make a good movie!
> 

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