IncredibleShrinkingCritic

The android head of Philip K. Dick went missing recently after its creator, roboticist David Hanson, mistakenly left it behind while changing planes. These things happen.

The lifelike Dick head, which was able via computer chip to conduct semi-coherent conversations in the voice of the late, great author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which morphed into the movie Blade Runner, was being used to help promo the new Richard Linklater film, A Scanner Darkly, opening July 7. The android's body was found, but the head has gone to a place even America West cannot fathom.

Warner Independent's Laura Kim told the New York Times that it was a shame to lose the talking head, since she'd been thinking of sending it out on junkets or pitching it to Letterman. Even Philip K. Dick's headless body would be an improvement on the usual brainless zombies you find on the interview circuit; I doubt, somehow, that it would spout such wisdom as "I was attracted to this project because of the script" and "Film is a collaborative effort."