Forrest J. Ackerman is profiled in the Los Angeles City Beat: The Day After the Night of the Living Dead
He also became a kind of ad-hoc museum curator. From time to time, he opens his home so the public can view the props, costumes, and art, and just hang around and talk. Conversations with Ackerman are generally the highlight of the visit. Though he is elderly and sometimes speaks slowly, he has an excellent memory and casually recalls conversations with Lugosi, Vincent Price, Robert Heinlein, and even H.G. Wells.
Actually Ackerman and Heinlein had a falling out over Ackerman’s unauthorized publication of a speech Heinlein gave at the 3d World Science Fiction Convention.
I also Googled up an earlier interview with Ackerman in which he discusses how “Solution Unsatisfactory” was inspired by a lecture by H.G. Wells that both Ackerman and (presumably) Heinlein attended. There also is a brief mention of a visit by Ackerman to the set of “Destination: Moon.”
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