Harlan Ellison Died in His Sleep

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Ellison, Provocative Sci-Fi Writer of =E2=80=98Star Trek,=E2=80=99 =E2=80=
=98A Boy and His Dog,=E2=80=99 Dies at 84By=C2=A0Carmel DaganStaff WriterSp=
eculative-fiction writer=C2=A0Harlan Ellison, who penned short stories, nov=
ellas and criticism, contributed to TV series including =E2=80=9CThe Outer =
Limits,=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CStar Trek=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9CBabylon 5=E2=80=
=9D and won a notable copyright infringement suit against ABC and Paramount=
 and a settlement in a similar suit over =E2=80=9CThe Terminator,=E2=80=9D =
has died. He was 84.Christine Valada tweeted that Ellison=E2=80=99s wife, S=
usan, had asked her to announce that he died in his sleep Thursday.The prol=
ific but cantankerous author famously penned the =E2=80=9CStar Trek=E2=80=
=9D episode =E2=80=9CCity on the Edge of Forever,=E2=80=9D in which Kirk an=
d Spock must go back in time to Depression-era America to put Earth history=
 back on its rightful course, a goal that for Kirk means sacrificing the wo=
man he loves (played by Joan Collins). The final script was rewritten by =
=E2=80=9CStar Trek=E2=80=9D staffers to avoid the anti-war lesson Ellison h=
ad intended to impart about the ongoing Vietnam War, leaving Ellison unhapp=
y.His 1995 book =E2=80=9CThe City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Tele=
play That Became the Classic Star Trek Episode=E2=80=9D contained two draft=
s by Ellison.The author was still steaming over his experience more than fo=
ur decades after the episode originally aired: In 2009 Ellison sued CBS Par=
amount Television seeking revenue from merchandising and other sources from=
 the episode; a settlement was reached six months later.The author of a 198=
0 L.A. Times profile declared, =E2=80=9CEllison is fiercely independent, pr=
oudly elitist, frequently angry, tenacious and downright vengeful.=E2=80=9D=
Talking about the Hollywood establishment, Ellison told the author, =E2=80=
=9CThey=E2=80=99ve got to know that everybody isn=E2=80=99t frightened and =
won=E2=80=99t back down=E2=80=A6. These people are not creators; they belon=
g to the AAA =E2=80=94 agents, attorneys and accountants. They aren=E2=80=
=99t comfortable dealing with writers =E2=80=94 they think we=E2=80=99re ma=
dmen. They=E2=80=99re really only comfortable dealing with numbers.=E2=80=
=9DIn a separate case, Ellison won $337,000 (later reduced a bit in a settl=
ement) from ABC and Paramount Studios in 1980 for copyright infringement on=
 a short story the author had penned with Ben Bova, =E2=80=9CBrillo.=E2=80=
=9D Ellison and Bova had been asked to develop it at ABC, but the option th=
ere had lapsed; Ellison then showed it to Par execs, who said they weren=E2=
=80=99t interested. ABC aired a Par-produced telepic called =E2=80=9CFuture=
 Cop=E2=80=9D in May 1976 and later a brief series of the same name. The pr=
emise, about the first android policeman, was identical to that in =E2=80=
=9CBrillo.=E2=80=9DIn the litigious writer=E2=80=99s third victory against =
Hollywood, Ellison sued James Cameron and others behind 1984=E2=80=99s =E2=
=80=9CThe Terminator,=E2=80=9D claiming that the film drew from material in=
 two episodes of the original =E2=80=9CThe Outer Limits=E2=80=9D series, =
=E2=80=9CSoldier=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9CDemon With a Glass Hand,=E2=80=9D th=
at he had penned and had aired in 1964. Production company Hemdale and dist=
ributor Orion Pictures settled out of court and were required under the ter=
ms of the settlement to acknowledge Ellison=E2=80=99s work in the film=E2=
=80=99s end credits. Cameron, however, labelled Ellison =E2=80=9Ca parasite=
.=E2=80=9DCuriously, Ellison had little sympathy for others who brought cop=
yright-infringement suits against the studios, telling the L.A. Times, =E2=
=80=9CYou=E2=80=99ve got to realize that there are hundreds of these claims=
 and most of them aren=E2=80=99t valid. This is a town of amateurs=E2=80=A6=
. You have to separate these people and their complaints from the professio=
nals who really work at writing and have viable ideas.=E2=80=9DBorn in Pain=
esville, Ohio, Ellison grew up in the only Jewish family in a small town wh=
ere he said he had to defend himself in physical altercations on a daily ba=
sis. During the 1950s Ellison attended Ohio State U. for 18 months, served =
in the Army and began to sell sci-fi stories to pulp mags.He moved to Calif=
ornia in 1962.Ellison was famously fired on his first day of employment as =
a writer at Walt Disney Studios after making highly irreverent suggestions =
about the company=E2=80=99s beloved characters.He penned scripts for =E2=80=
=9CRoute 66,=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CBurke=E2=80=99s Law=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9CVo=
yage to the Bottom of the Sea,=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CThe Man From U.N.C.L.E.=E2=
=80=9D and even =E2=80=9CThe Flying Nun.=E2=80=9D For a 1964 episode of =E2=
=80=9CThe Alfred Hitchcock Hour,=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CMemo From Purgatory,=E2=
=80=9D he adapted his own nonfiction memoir about having joined a street ga=
ng in Brooklyn.Ellison also penned the screenplay to tepidly trashy Hollywo=
od melodrama =E2=80=9CThe Oscar,=E2=80=9D and the post-apocalyptic cult cla=
ssic =E2=80=9CA Boy and His Dog=E2=80=9D (1975), starring a young Don Johns=
on, was based on an Ellison novella.Ellison was also editor of the very inf=
luential sci-fi anthologies =E2=80=9CDangerous Visions=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=
=9CAgain Dangerous Visions.=E2=80=9DWhen he dealt with Hollywood, he fearle=
ssly said exactly what he thought again and again =E2=80=94 often causing f=
allout as a result. In the wake of the 1977 release of =E2=80=9CStar Wars,=
=E2=80=9D a Warner Bros. executive asked Ellison to adapt Isaac Asimov=E2=
=80=99s short story collection =E2=80=9CI, Robot=E2=80=9D for the bigscreen=
.Ellison penned a script and met with studio chief Robert Shapiro to discus=
s it; when the author concluded that the executive was commenting on his wo=
rk without having read it, Ellison claimed to have said to Shapiro that he =
had =E2=80=9Cthe intellectual capacity of an artichoke.=E2=80=9D Needless t=
o say, Ellison was dropped from the project. Ellison=E2=80=99s work was ult=
imately published with permission of the studio, but the 2004 Will Smith fi=
lm =E2=80=9CI, Robot=E2=80=9D was not based on the material Ellison wrote.P=
erhaps Ellison=E2=80=99s most famous story not adapted for the screen was 1=
965=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9CRepent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman,=E2=80=9D wh=
ich celebrates civil disobedience against a repressive establishment. =E2=
=80=9CRepent=E2=80=9D is one of the most reprinted stories ever.In Septembe=
r 2011, however, Ellison sued to block the release of New Regency=E2=80=99s=
 thriller =E2=80=9CIn Time,=E2=80=9D starring Justin Timberlake, claiming t=
hat the film hews too closely to =E2=80=9CRepent,=E2=80=9D then dropped the=
 suit. In the early 1970s, Ellison created his only TV series, the Canada-p=
roduced =E2=80=9CThe Starlost.=E2=80=9D He was so unhappy with the changes =
made by producers, however, that he took his name off the skein, which aire=
d in 1973.Ellison was a creative consultant for the 1980s edition of =E2=80=
=9CThe Twilight Zone,=E2=80=9D for which he wrote several episodes, and was=
 conceptual consultant for the 1990s sci-fi series =E2=80=9CBabylon 5.=E2=
=80=9D He also appeared in several episodes.In 1995 Ellison adapted his sto=
ry =E2=80=9CI Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream=E2=80=9D for the videogame o=
f that name. He was also credited with design of the game and voiced the ma=
in character.=E2=80=9CDreams With Sharp Teeth,=E2=80=9D a documentary cente=
ring on Ellison and his work, received a theatrical release in 2008. Interv=
iewees included Ellison and Robin Williams. Ellison also appeared in other =
documentaries, including =E2=80=9CThe Masters of Comic Book Art,=E2=80=9D =
=E2=80=9CShadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy,=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CBrot=
her Theodore=E2=80=9D (2007) and =E2=80=9CWith Great Power: The Stan Lee St=
ory=E2=80=9D (2010).In addition to numerous genre awards =E2=80=94 includin=
g multiple Hugos, Nebulas and Edgars =E2=80=94 Ellison received four WGA Aw=
ards for his TV work and the Silver Pen for Journalism, conferred by intern=
ational writers union PEN, for his =E2=80=9CAn Edge in My Voice=E2=80=9D co=
lumn in the L.A. Weekly in defense of First Amendment rights.Despite the ku=
dos he amassed, however, Ellison penned a guest column for=C2=A0Variety=C2=
=A0in November 2013 in which he declared: =E2=80=9CI do not merely hate all=
 awards shows, I wish to see them beheaded, stakes driven through their bla=
ck and corrupted widdle hearts, and to see the decapitated remains buried a=
t a crossroads come midnight.=E2=80=9DEllison was married five times, with =
at least two of those marriages lasting only weeks or months. Survivors inc=
lude his fifth wife, Susan Ann Toth.
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arlan Ellison</a>, who penned short stories, novellas and criticism, contri=
buted to TV series including =E2=80=9CThe Outer Limits,=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9C<=
a rel=3D"nofollow" shape=3D"rect" target=3D"_blank" href=3D"https://variety=
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em;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122305">Babylon 5</a>=E2=80=9D and wo=
n a notable copyright infringement suit against ABC and Paramount and a set=
tlement in a similar suit over =E2=80=9CThe Terminator,=E2=80=9D has died. =
He was 84.</div><div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em; font-family: arial, helv=
etica; font-size: 13.3333px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122306">Chri=
stine Valada tweeted that Ellison=E2=80=99s wife, Susan, had asked her to a=
nnounce that he died in his sleep Thursday.</div><div style=3D"line-height:=
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family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.3333px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142=
089458_122308">The prolific but cantankerous author famously penned the =E2=
=80=9C<a rel=3D"nofollow" shape=3D"rect" target=3D"_blank" href=3D"https://=
variety.com/2018/tv/news/original-star-trek-enterprise-theme-discovery-fina=
le-1202694515/" style=3D"color: rgb(25, 106, 212); line-height: 1.22em;" id=
=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122309">Star Trek</a>=E2=80=9D episode =E2=
=80=9CCity on the Edge of Forever,=E2=80=9D in which Kirk and Spock must go=
 back in time to Depression-era America to put Earth history back on its ri=
ghtful course, a goal that for Kirk means sacrificing the woman he loves (p=
layed by Joan Collins). The final script was rewritten by =E2=80=9CStar Tre=
k=E2=80=9D staffers to avoid the anti-war lesson Ellison had intended to im=
part about the ongoing Vietnam War, leaving Ellison unhappy.</div><div styl=
e=3D"line-height: 1.22em; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.3333=
px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122310">His 1995 book =E2=80=9CThe Ci=
ty on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay That Became the Classic St=
ar Trek Episode=E2=80=9D contained two drafts by Ellison.</div><div style=
=3D"line-height: 1.22em; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.3333p=
x;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122311"><div style=3D"line-height: 1.2=
2em;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122312"><div style=3D"line-height: 1=
.22em;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122313"></div></div></div><div sty=
le=3D"line-height: 1.22em; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.333=
3px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122314">The author was still steamin=
g over his experience more than four decades after the episode originally a=
ired: In 2009 Ellison sued CBS Paramount Television seeking revenue from me=
rchandising and other sources from the episode; a settlement was reached si=
x months later.</div><div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em; font-family: arial,=
 helvetica; font-size: 13.3333px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122315"=
></div><div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em; font-family: arial, helvetica; fo=
nt-size: 13.3333px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122316">The author of=
 a 1980 L.A. Times profile declared, =E2=80=9CEllison is fiercely independe=
nt, proudly elitist, frequently angry, tenacious and downright vengeful.=E2=
=80=9D</div><div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em; font-family: arial, helvetic=
a; font-size: 13.3333px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122317">Talking =
about the Hollywood establishment, Ellison told the author, =E2=80=9CThey=
=E2=80=99ve got to know that everybody isn=E2=80=99t frightened and won=E2=
=80=99t back down=E2=80=A6. These people are not creators; they belong to t=
he AAA =E2=80=94 agents, attorneys and accountants. They aren=E2=80=99t com=
fortable dealing with writers =E2=80=94 they think we=E2=80=99re madmen. Th=
ey=E2=80=99re really only comfortable dealing with numbers.=E2=80=9D</div><=
div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size:=
 13.3333px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122318">In a separate case, E=
llison won $337,000 (later reduced a bit in a settlement) from ABC and Para=
mount Studios in 1980 for copyright infringement on a short story the autho=
r had penned with Ben Bova, =E2=80=9CBrillo.=E2=80=9D Ellison and Bova had =
been asked to develop it at ABC, but the option there had lapsed; Ellison t=
hen showed it to Par execs, who said they weren=E2=80=99t interested. ABC a=
ired a Par-produced telepic called =E2=80=9CFuture Cop=E2=80=9D in May 1976=
 and later a brief series of the same name. The premise, about the first an=
droid policeman, was identical to that in =E2=80=9CBrillo.=E2=80=9D</div><d=
iv style=3D"line-height: 1.22em; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: =
13.3333px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122319">In the litigious write=
r=E2=80=99s third victory against Hollywood, Ellison sued James Cameron and=
 others behind 1984=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9CThe Terminator,=E2=80=9D claiming th=
at the film drew from material in two episodes of the original =E2=80=9CThe=
 Outer Limits=E2=80=9D series, =E2=80=9CSoldier=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9CDemon=
 With a Glass Hand,=E2=80=9D that he had penned and had aired in 1964. Prod=
uction company Hemdale and distributor Orion Pictures settled out of court =
and were required under the terms of the settlement to acknowledge Ellison=
=E2=80=99s work in the film=E2=80=99s end credits. Cameron, however, labell=
ed Ellison =E2=80=9Ca parasite.=E2=80=9D</div><div style=3D"line-height: 1.=
22em; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.3333px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_=
0_1_1530142089458_122320">Curiously, Ellison had little sympathy for others=
 who brought copyright-infringement suits against the studios, telling the =
L.A. Times, =E2=80=9CYou=E2=80=99ve got to realize that there are hundreds =
of these claims and most of them aren=E2=80=99t valid. This is a town of am=
ateurs=E2=80=A6. You have to separate these people and their complaints fro=
m the professionals who really work at writing and have viable ideas.=E2=80=
=9D</div><div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em; font-family: arial, helvetica; =
font-size: 13.3333px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122321"><div style=
=3D"line-height: 1.22em;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122322"><div sty=
le=3D"line-height: 1.22em;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122323"></div>=
</div></div><div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em; font-family: arial, helvetic=
a; font-size: 13.3333px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122324">Born in =
Painesville, Ohio, Ellison grew up in the only Jewish family in a small tow=
n where he said he had to defend himself in physical altercations on a dail=
y basis. During the 1950s Ellison attended Ohio State U. for 18 months, ser=
ved in the Army and began to sell sci-fi stories to pulp mags.</div><div st=
yle=3D"line-height: 1.22em; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.33=
33px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122325">He moved to California in 1=
962.</div><div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em; font-family: arial, helvetica;=
 font-size: 13.3333px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122326">Ellison wa=
s famously fired on his first day of employment as a writer at Walt Disney =
Studios after making highly irreverent suggestions about the company=E2=80=
=99s beloved characters.</div><div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em; font-famil=
y: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.3333px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_153014208945=
8_122327">He penned scripts for =E2=80=9CRoute 66,=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CBurke=
=E2=80=99s Law=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9CVoyage to the Bottom of the Sea,=E2=80=
=9D =E2=80=9CThe Man From U.N.C.L.E.=E2=80=9D and even =E2=80=9CThe Flying =
Nun.=E2=80=9D For a 1964 episode of =E2=80=9CThe Alfred Hitchcock Hour,=E2=
=80=9D =E2=80=9CMemo From Purgatory,=E2=80=9D he adapted his own nonfiction=
 memoir about having joined a street gang in Brooklyn.</div><div style=3D"l=
ine-height: 1.22em; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.3333px;" i=
d=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122328">Ellison also penned the screenplay =
to tepidly trashy Hollywood melodrama =E2=80=9CThe Oscar,=E2=80=9D and the =
post-apocalyptic cult classic =E2=80=9CA Boy and His Dog=E2=80=9D (1975), s=
tarring a young Don Johnson, was based on an Ellison novella.</div><div sty=
le=3D"line-height: 1.22em; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.333=
3px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122329">Ellison was also editor of t=
he very influential sci-fi anthologies =E2=80=9CDangerous Visions=E2=80=9D =
and =E2=80=9CAgain Dangerous Visions.=E2=80=9D</div><div style=3D"line-heig=
ht: 1.22em; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.3333px;" id=3D"yui=
_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122330">When he dealt with Hollywood, he fearlessly=
 said exactly what he thought again and again =E2=80=94 often causing fallo=
ut as a result. In the wake of the 1977 release of =E2=80=9CStar Wars,=E2=
=80=9D a Warner Bros. executive asked Ellison to adapt Isaac Asimov=E2=80=
=99s short story collection =E2=80=9CI, Robot=E2=80=9D for the bigscreen.</=
div><div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-=
size: 13.3333px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122331">Ellison penned a=
 script and met with studio chief Robert Shapiro to discuss it; when the au=
thor concluded that the executive was commenting on his work without having=
 read it, Ellison claimed to have said to Shapiro that he had =E2=80=9Cthe =
intellectual capacity of an artichoke.=E2=80=9D Needless to say, Ellison wa=
s dropped from the project. Ellison=E2=80=99s work was ultimately published=
 with permission of the studio, but the 2004 Will Smith film =E2=80=9CI, Ro=
bot=E2=80=9D was not based on the material Ellison wrote.</div><div style=
=3D"line-height: 1.22em; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.3333p=
x;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122332">Perhaps Ellison=E2=80=99s most=
 famous story not adapted for the screen was 1965=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9CRepent=
, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman,=E2=80=9D which celebrates civil disobedi=
ence against a repressive establishment. =E2=80=9CRepent=E2=80=9D is one of=
 the most reprinted stories ever.</div><div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em; f=
ont-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.3333px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_153=
0142089458_122333"><div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1=
530142089458_122334"><div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1=
_1530142089458_122335"></div></div></div><div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;=
 font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.3333px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1=
530142089458_122336">In September 2011, however, Ellison sued to block the =
release of New Regency=E2=80=99s thriller =E2=80=9CIn Time,=E2=80=9D starri=
ng Justin Timberlake, claiming that the film hews too closely to =E2=80=9CR=
epent,=E2=80=9D then dropped the suit. In the early 1970s, Ellison created =
his only TV series, the Canada-produced =E2=80=9CThe Starlost.=E2=80=9D He =
was so unhappy with the changes made by producers, however, that he took hi=
s name off the skein, which aired in 1973.</div><div style=3D"line-height: =
1.22em; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.3333px;" id=3D"yui_3_1=
6_0_1_1530142089458_122337">Ellison was a creative consultant for the 1980s=
 edition of =E2=80=9CThe Twilight Zone,=E2=80=9D for which he wrote several=
 episodes, and was conceptual consultant for the 1990s sci-fi series =E2=80=
=9C<a rel=3D"nofollow" shape=3D"rect" target=3D"_blank" href=3D"https://var=
iety.com/2017/film/news/stephen-furst-dies-dead-63-animal-house-babylon-5-s=
t-elsewhere-1202469695/" style=3D"color: rgb(25, 106, 212); line-height: 1.=
22em;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122338">Babylon 5</a>.=E2=80=9D He =
also appeared in several episodes.</div><div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em; =
font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.3333px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_15=
30142089458_122339">In 1995 Ellison adapted his story =E2=80=9CI Have No Mo=
uth, and I Must Scream=E2=80=9D for the videogame of that name. He was also=
 credited with design of the game and voiced the main character.</div><div =
style=3D"line-height: 1.22em; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.=
3333px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122340">=E2=80=9CDreams With Shar=
p Teeth,=E2=80=9D a documentary centering on Ellison and his work, received=
 a theatrical release in 2008. Interviewees included Ellison and Robin Will=
iams. Ellison also appeared in other documentaries, including =E2=80=9CThe =
Masters of Comic Book Art,=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CShadows in the Dark: The Val L=
ewton Legacy,=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CBrother Theodore=E2=80=9D (2007) and =E2=80=
=9CWith Great Power: The Stan Lee Story=E2=80=9D (2010).</div><div style=3D=
"line-height: 1.22em; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.3333px;"=
 id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122341">In addition to numerous genre awa=
rds =E2=80=94 including multiple Hugos, Nebulas and Edgars =E2=80=94 Elliso=
n received four WGA Awards for his TV work and the Silver Pen for Journalis=
m, conferred by international writers union PEN, for his =E2=80=9CAn Edge i=
n My Voice=E2=80=9D column in the L.A. Weekly in defense of First Amendment=
 rights.</div><div style=3D"line-height: 1.22em; font-family: arial, helvet=
ica; font-size: 13.3333px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122342">Despit=
e the kudos he amassed, however, Ellison penned a guest column for&nbsp;<em=
 style=3D"line-height: 1.22em;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122343">Va=
riety</em>&nbsp;in November 2013 in which he declared: =E2=80=9CI do not me=
rely hate all awards shows, I wish to see them beheaded, stakes driven thro=
ugh their black and corrupted widdle hearts, and to see the decapitated rem=
ains buried at a crossroads come midnight.=E2=80=9D</div><div style=3D"line=
-height: 1.22em; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.3333px;" dir=
=3D"ltr" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_1_1530142089458_122344">Ellison was married five =
times, with at least two of those marriages lasting only weeks or months. S=
urvivors include his fifth wife, Susan Ann Toth.</div></div></body></html>
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