Talk:Ken Grimwood

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Actually, as the author of Second Sight, I have to tell you that until I read this Wikipedia page in 2004, I had never heard of Ken Grimwood or his novel, Breakthrough. -- David Williams

Replay[edit]

Most of what appears here in the "Replay" section is already in the Replay (novel) article, and should be deleted from here. Can someone do that please?--Keeves 01:10, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. It was me who originally moved the material over to Replay (novel) but people working on this biography seem to be adamant. I'm not going to do it again. <KF> 16:32, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
As per the Dec. 1 request, I did delete material that same day. So now the two pages are different. However, the essential problem is this: Almost nothing is known of Ken Grimwood's life -- so it becomes necessary to fill the space with information about his books. Replay is an important part of his life. Are you suggesting that the Ken Grimwood page have many paragraphs about his other books and a single sentence about Replay? Over several years I have been trying to gather information about Ken Grimwood, and what you see here are the only known facts I've been able to assemble from diverse sources. If anyone has any ideas about how to add more about Grimwood, let's hear it. Pepso 18:14, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
All I'm saying is that whenever a separate page is created, all that remains on the original page is a blue link. This, I believe, is not so much done for economic reasons (Wikipedia is not a printed encyclopaedia) but because updating and/or correcting information on two separate pages is much more difficult and time-consuming. However, I've seen this phenomenon on other pages as well, for example kiosk: I removed all material relating to modern communication technology to Internet kiosk, with a link to that page, and by and by people reading the kiosk article started adding information on Internet kiosks again.
By all means leave that paragraph there. I read Replay some time in the late 1980s and found it fascinating, so if no one objects that's fine with me. As far as the author is concerned, all I know about him is from what you have written. All the best, <KF> 19:29, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia[edit]

I don't know how many "Ken Grimwoods" there are in Santa Barbara, but a Ken Grimwood wrote a letter to the editor:

"Getting Those Nasty Butts Off the Streets Los Angeles Times August 31, 2002 Saturday"
As an ex-smoker, I am also disgusted by the idea of thousands of cigarette butts littering the streets and ultimately being swept into the ocean ("Litterbugs and Butts," letter, Aug. 26). I am confused, however, about what smokers in largely pedestrian areas such as Westwood, Venice, the promenades in Santa Monica and Pasadena, and State Street in Santa Barbara are supposed to do with their smoldering butts.
Your letter writer suggests putting them in trash cans. Just how many trash fires per block would he like to see on an average day?
On a recent trip to Sydney, Australia, I noticed that the city has placed hotel-style ashtrays filled with sand on sidewalks throughout the central business district and the historic area called "the Rocks." Smokers obviously use them; I almost never saw cigarette butts crushed out on the streets or sidewalks in this delightfully clean and friendly city.
I know it may smack of "enabling" to rabidly anti-smoking Californians, but if we really want to keep the streets clean of this noxious litter, it might be a good idea to give smokers (including many foreign tourists) a safe and handy place to dispose of their used cigarettes.
Ken Grimwood
Santa Barbara

Interesting if it was in fact Grimwood who wrote this letter.

In this article:

Atlas Air Memorial Relief Flight to Aid Victims of India/Pakistan Earthquake Business Wire January 31, 2001

a Ken Grimwood, also from Santa Barbara is listed as someone to contact to help the victims of the earthquake, with a phone number for Direct Relief International in Goleta, California.

Travb (talk) 11:42, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Brad Pitt[edit]

Marlowe' stars Depp as 16th-century writer

The San Diego Union-Tribune

November 12, 2000


...It's a 'Replay' for Roberts, Pitt

Julia Roberts is in negotiations to come aboard Warner Bros.' "Replay," which could reteam Roberts with Brad Pitt, her co-star in DreamWorks' upcoming "The Mexican." In January, Roberts and Pitt are slated to begin Warner Bros.' remake of "Ocean's Eleven." "Replay," based on the novel by Ken Grimwood, is about a 43-year-old man who dies of a heart attack, then wakes up as himself in college to correct mistakes, one of which includes a lost love (Roberts). He keeps dying on the same date and coming back to start from scratch -- his memory of the previous experiences intact -- as he falls in and out of love during the various replays...

Signed Travb (talk) 11:49, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ken Grimwood[edit]

Ken was a classmate at a fine boarding school near Birmingham Al named Indian Springs School and am very surprised this isnt listed in his bio. It is the same school of the famous Hollywood director John Badham. I also attended the Sorbonne in a summer course in 1961 with Ken and I see this isnt mentioned. I feel both the boarding school and the time in Paris had to have made a big difference in his life and am very surprised this isnt listed. Ken graduated Indian Springs School in Alabama in 1961 and is one of the top quality prep schools in the nation. Tom Phillips Birmingham Alabama classmate to Ken Grimwood — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.82.7.119 (talk) 22:00, 8 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Such facts need to have sources. Perhaps you could check and see if Grimwood's name is in a list of alumni published by the Indian Springs School, or classes at the Sorbonne in 1961. Otherwise, it is just hearsay if someone else hasn't published it in an article in a Reliable Source on Grimwood, for instance. Perhaps a journal about his kind of writing?Parkwells (talk) 13:53, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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