The Love Bug Monte Carlo", "Herbie Goes Bananas", and "". Some parts of the racing sequences from the film were later reused for Herbie's dream sequence in "Herbie Rides Again", responding to Grandma Steinmetz's telling Willoughby Whitfield that Herbie used to be a famous racecar. A five-episode TV series, "Herbie, the Love Bug", aired on CBS in the United States in spring 1982. In 1997, there was a made-for-television sequel which included a Dean Jones cameo, tying it to the previous films. The latest entry "Herbie: Fully Loaded", was released on June 22, 2005, by Walt Disney Pictures. At Disney's All-Star Movies Resort
The Gold Bug Variations The Gold Bug Variations The Gold Bug Variations is a novel by American writer Richard Powers, first released in 1991. The novel intertwines the discovery of the chemical structure of DNA with the musicality of Johann Sebastian Bach's harpsichord composition the Goldberg Variations. A similar theme is explored by Douglas Hofstadter in his 1979 book "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. "The title also alludes to Edgar Allan Poe's 1843 short story "The Gold-Bug", which is also incorporated in the plot of the novel. The plot hinges on two love affairs: the first set in the 1950s, between two