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A few years back the American Film Institute in Silver Spring MD was showing the 70 mm original, 2001 A Space Odyssey on the big screen in their lovely 400 seat theater. As part of the showing they had the star of the film actor Keri Dullea on hand signing autographs and taking photo’s and at the end of the film he spoke for a while and answer a few questions.

It was quite the experience watching the film on the big screen for the first time. While my home theater can do some justice to films, there is something about the collective experience in a large movie house with a film classic like 2001.

Getting to meet Dullea was a wonderful, geek moment. Having watched 2001 over a dozen times since I was a kid, seeing the star of this classic, in person and speaking with him was fanboying at its best. Having my son with me was priceless.