Here I am staying up late to watch Westworld, one of my favorite sci- fi movies, written and directed by Michael Crichton. (Crichton was a very tall man, a genius, and medical doctor who wrote Jurassic Park among other things. He recently passed away.)

So Westworld stars Yul Brynner, a robot in Westworld, who is programmed to let the tourists play out their cowboy fantasies and shoot 'em up in an authentic 1880's Western town.

The tourists have a choice between Westworld, Medieval World, and Roman World. In all these recreated fantasy worlds, the guests are always right and robots who look like the real people are programmed never to harm the paying guests. But something goes wrong in the computer programming complex and the robots become homicidal.

Yul Brynner in his black hat and cowboy outfit and steely stare is shot by a tourist one time too many. He and the other robots go amok. The music accompanying the film was harsh and staccato, just right for the scenes. By the way, this film used some of the first computer generated graphics, which were perfect. Brynner, with his egg bald head was way ahead of his time with the de-haired look, one of the few guys who has ever looked good to me with no head hair.

A great movie, love it. Bye for now so I watch him relentlessly track the lone living human across a desert--with a real gun.

susil