Noam Pitlik won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Comedy Series for "Fog."
Famous Quotes about Fog:
- "Fair is foul and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air." (William Shakespeare, Three Witches, Macbeth, quoted by Dietrich)
- "The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on." ( Carl Sandburg, Fog, quoted by Wojo)
- "I got smog in my noggin' " ( Edd Byrnes aka Kookie, of 77 Sunset Strip (1958) fame)
Interesting Facts about Microwaves:
- Transmitters ( "dishes" ) on the roof relay phone calls on microwave frequencies.
- On April 3, 1973 , Martin Cooper, made a public demonstration of cellular phone technology in New York to reporters where a call was made while standing on Sixth Avenue near the New York's Midtown Hilton hotel, via microwave frequencies
- For over fifteen years, the Russians beamed microwaves into the American Embassy in Moscow, two Ambassadors died of cancer, another had headaches. (According to a published National Institute of Health study, beams of microwaves from Soviet sources aimed at the US embassy building in Moscow were detected since 1953. Whether it caused actual harm is another matter entirely)
- The events which took place in the former Soviet Union, were later characterized as the "Moscow Signal" and were either carried out to activate passive eavesdropping devices embedded in the embassy walls or to serve as anti-jamming measure against American surveillance.
- The Soviets claimed that they stopped radiation bombardment of the Embassy in 1979, but it still continued into 1988. The issue was kept under wraps due to the advent of détente (easing of tensions) in the early 1970s, no one was looking for an obstacle to diplomatic progress with the Soviets, which was accelerating under the Nixon administration.
- In the twenty first century, specifically in late 2016, U.S. diplomats and spies serving in Cuba began reporting bizarre sounds and sensations followed by unexplained illnesses and symptoms, including hearing and vision loss, memory and balance problems, headaches and nausea.
- The phenomena is called the "Havana Syndrome"
- Frey effect - Microwaves could cause people in the beam's path to hear clicking sounds
- "RF imposition" can be used to read voices off windows
- A technique known as RF flooding could be used to intercept electronic signals and voices reflected off electronic devices in unprotected areas .
- According to sources in US Intelligence, a device called a "Portable Microwave Transmitter" whose dimension can be anywhere from a suitcase all the way up to a large tractor trailer unit is capable of producing the above mentioned effects. And the bigger the device, the longer the range.
- Microwave equipment, for civilian use, is designed for maximum safety.
- TV stations, Hospitals, and Police also utilize microwave frequencies.
Harris, when speaking to Mr. Jennings, refers to "Fast Eddie". Fast Eddie, or Eddie Henderson is an American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player. He came to prominence in the early 1970s as a member of pianist Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band, going on to lead his own electric/fusion groups through the decade. Henderson earned his medical degree and worked a parallel career as a psychiatrist and musician, turning back to acoustic jazz by the 1990s.