Niven stated, " Anyone who says a bullet sings past, hums past, flies, pings, or whines past, has never heard one -- they go crack!

Niven says there will not be more stories from this time: " Stories about infinitely lucky people tend to be dull.

In the introduction to the novel, Niven says that he never planned to write more than one Ringworld novel, but that he did so, in a large part, due to fan support.

In the novel's introduction, Niven says that MIT students attending the 1971 World Science Fiction Convention chanted, " The Ringworld is unstable!

" Niven says that one reason he wrote The Ringworld Engineers was to address these engineering problems.

Niven enjoyed success in 1956, when he starred as Phileas Fogg in Michael Todd's immensely successful production of Around the World in 80 Days.

According to the Niven story The Soft Weapon, Pierson was a crewman aboard a spaceship at a time when there was a camp revival of the ancient Time for Beany TV show featuring Cecil the Sea-Sick Sea Serpent, an animated character based on a hand puppet ; Pierson accordingly described the alien he had met as a Puppeteer, given some resemblance of the head and neck with Cecil.

Worse, his American break ended before it began: he was signed to star with June Allyson in a remake of My Man Godfrey in 1956, but was replaced by David Niven when Fischer reportedly lost his memory during filming.

The final story arc began in the summer of 1985, when country singer Travis Marsh ( played by Lavin's real-life husband Kip Niven ), discovering that he's falling for Alice, " kidnaps " her to take her to Nashville, telling her it's time to follow her dream there.

A Harshad number, or Niven number in a given number base, is an integer that is divisible by the sum of its digits when written in that base.

He successfully represented several stars of the era, including Lauren Bacall, Peter Lorre, Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, David Niven, Zero Mostel, Richard Burton, and Stanley Kubrick, until the 1950s when his business was negatively affected by investigations of many of his clients by Joseph McCarthy's Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

Both Storey and Niven faced a problem when they realised there was no room for two evening papers in Portsmouth.

In this case David Niven having to defend his right to stay on Earth after mistakenly being allowed to remain alive and fall in love, instead of being brought to the otherworld / heaven when he was supposed to die.

Some of the characters are also found in The Ringworld Engineers, as early on in this book Niven tells us that relatively few of the hominids died when Louis Wu and the Hindmost restabilised the ring at the end of the previous book.

Near the end of his life, DeMille began pre-production work on a film biography of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement and had asked David Niven to star in the film, which was never made.

Similarities to Ringworld have been noted in the game, and Niven was asked ( but declined ) to write the first novel based on the series.

Showing the typical rebelliousness of his early years, Niven asked, " Could you tell me the time, sir?

" Later, evidence arose suggesting that Opel's appearance was facilitated as a publicity stunt by the show's producer Jack Haley, Jr. Robert Metzler, the show's business manager, believed that the incident had been planned in some way ; during the dress rehearsal Niven had asked Metzler's wife to borrow a pen so he could write down the famous line, which was thus not the ad-lib it appeared to be.

When Jagger and Bowie asked Launer to write a screenplay for them, Launer suggested they do a remake of the movie Bedtime Story, which originally starred David Niven and Marlon Brando.

" Goddamn doctor ," Bogart later told David Niven, " instead of stitching it up, he screwed it up.

According to Stephen Bogart, the original members of the Holmby Hills Rat Pack were: Frank Sinatra ( pack master ), Judy Garland ( first vice-president ), Bacall ( den mother ), Sid Luft ( cage master ), Bogart ( rat in charge of public relations ), Swifty Lazar ( recording secretary and treasurer ), Nathaniel Benchley ( historian ), David Niven, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, George Cukor, Cary Grant, Rex Harrison, and Jimmy Van Heusen.

Among the movies Cromwell directed are Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1936 ) starring Freddie Bartholomew and Dolores Costello ; The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ) starring Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll, with Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, David Niven, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr .; Algiers ( 1938 ) starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr ; Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( 1940 ) starring Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, and Ruth Gordon ; Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake ( 1942 ) starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney ; Since You Went Away ( 1944 ) starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Robert Walker, and Monty Woolley, with Hattie McDaniel, Agnes Moorehead, Alla Nazimova, Lionel Barrymore and Keenan Wynn ; Anna and the King of Siam ( 1946 ) starring Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb, and Gale Sondergaard ; Dead Reckoning ( 1947 ) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott ; the women's prison drama Caged ( 1950 ) and the noir crime / drama The Racket ( 1951 ) starring Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, and Robert Ryan, which Cromwell had appeared in onstage in New York and on tour.

" Flash Crowd " is a 1973 English language novella by science fiction author Larry Niven, one of a series about the social consequence of inventing an instant, practically free transfer booth that could take one anywhere on Earth in milliseconds.

: Niven himself wrote little about the Man-Kzin Wars, although many of his stories refer to them having taken place in the past.

Niven does not make assumptions about its strength, but imagines that small blobs of it could be artificially created under pressure, and their instability overcome by containing them in Slaver stasis fields.

Niven was " endlessly teased " about this error, which he corrected in subsequent printings to show Wu teleporting westward.

Niven also had special scorn for the newspaper columnists covering the war who typed out self-glorifying and excessively florid prose about their meagre wartime experiences.

The Bishop's Wife ( 1947 ) is a Samuel Goldwyn romantic comedy feature film starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven in a story about an angel who helps a bishop with his problems.

For example, Larry Niven's fictional universe Known Space has an approximately 135 year period in which Niven allows other authors to write stories about the Man-Kzin Wars.

Wasco is featured in the book Lucifer's Hammer written by Larry Niven, which is about the end of the world after a comet hits the earth.

Niven is either inconsistent about the actual size of a Thrint, or supposes a wide degree of variation among them: in World of Ptavvs, the character Kzanol is about half the height of a human, whereas later stories portray Thrintun as about 8 feet high.

** Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex, an essay about Superman's sexuality by Larry Niven

** Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex, an essay about Superman's sexuality by Larry Niven

The film was " conceived as a sophisticated comedy about a charming, urbane jewel thief, Sir Charles Lytton " ( played by Niven ); Peter Ustinov was " originally cast as Clouseau, with Ava Gardner as his faithless wife in league with Lytton.

David Niven said she had been " quite, quite mad "; and in his diary Noël Coward expressed surprise that " things had been bad and getting worse since 1948 or thereabouts.

Niven described her as a " great discovery ," and Kerr said that with " a reasonable amount of luck " Tate would be a great success.

Niven later wrote, " How he did this, I shall never know, but he made every single boy at that school feel that what he said and what he did were of real importance to the headmaster ".

In fact, Niven had been Bond creator Ian Fleming's first choice to play Bond in Dr. No. Casino Royale co-producer Charles K. Feldman said later that Fleming had written the book with Niven in mind, and therefore had sent a copy to Niven.

His friend and The First of the Few co-star, David Niven said Howard was "... not what he seemed.

In the novel Fallen Angels by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn, the folksinging fan Jenny Trout ( a character based on real-life folksinger Leslie Fish ) is said to be the daughter of Kilgore Trout.

By contrast, Heston said he greatly enjoyed working with David Niven.