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[i]He was to be interviewed on the "David Frost Show" the night Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. The show was interrupted for the announcement, and Bradbury cried. Then Frost reappeared on camera and said he wanted to introduce an American genius. Bradbury thought he was surely to be the next person on camera, this being the night of the future. [b]Anything's Possible[/b] For when man stepped on the moon, everything became possible in Bradbury's eyes. Man had defied gravity, he could now travel anywhere-even to Mars. But Frost wasn't introducing Bradbury; he introduced Englebert Humperdink instead. "He sang his stupid song," Bradbury had said. And the next on the agenda was Sammy Davis Jr. "Mr. Davis was a great guy, but this wasn't the night for this," Bradbury said. "Man had walked on the moon, we needed to talk about it, to understand it." Bradbury walked out of the studio and rode across town where Mike Wallace and Walter Cronkite were airing a worldwide telecast. He went on the air and he talked. And cried. And contemplated. The headline in the next day's London Times read, "Man walks on the moon at 6, Bradbury walks at midnight." Cronkite provided Bradbury with a tape of the show last year. It was the author's first time to see it. "There I was 30 years younger," he said. "Boy did I love me that night."[/i]
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