<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div>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.</div><div>Hank Azaria played Sarnoff, Jimmi Simpson was Farnsworth; writer, Aaron Sorkin ("The West Wing" and other notable efforts).</div><div><br></div><div>Chuck Reti</div><div>Detroit MI<br><br><br></div><div>On Jul 12, 2011, at 12:16 PM, <<a href="mailto:bill.spencer@northstarstudios.tv"><a href="mailto:bill.spencer@northstarstudios.tv">bill.spencer@northstarstudios.tv</a></a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">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! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">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!</span></p></blockquote><div></div></div><div></div></body></html>