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kleinbl00  ·  3394 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Richard Feynman Interview on the Pleasure of Finding Things Out

I met Feynman a couple times. I was young. Advantages of going to Christmas parties at the Mark's: eggnog with Richard Feynman. Disadvantages of going to Christmas parties at the Mark's: all these lionized old physicists are just creepy old men. I think I met Stephen Hawking once but that's only because I remember a really creepy dude in a robochair. 5-year-olds can't shoot the shit about the Schwartzchild Radius.

So it's not like we were drinking buds, but the people I know who actually knew Feynman describe him as a total cut-up. He was a lot more Robin Williams than Ian McKellen. If I had to guess - and it's just a guess - Badham and Parkes were going for Oppenheimer.