Amy Guskin wrote:
>>>On Wed, 7 May 2008 23:01:56 -0400, Wes Struebing wrote
> 
> (in article ):
> 
> 
>>On Wed, 07 May 2008 17:29:25 GMT, Amy Guskin 
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>>On Wed, 7 May 2008 09:44:21 -0400, webjockey wrote
>>>
>>>(in article 
>>>):
>>>
>>>
>>>>>Ooof, don't talk to me about Matheson.  I just had the distinct 
>>>>>displeasure
>>>>>of seeing the latest treatment of "I Am
Legend."  Why didn't anyone here 
>>>>>warn
>>>>>me not to waste my money??  Matheson is probably
spinning in his grave.  
>>>>>Uh...he _is_ dead, right?
>>>>
>>>>He's alive (not sure about the well part). Last novel published 2004:
>>>>
>>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson <<
>>>
>>>Thanks!  I'll have to grab that last novel, I guess.
>>>
>>>
>>>>>Watched I am Legend for the first time myself yesterday. Didn't
>>>>
>>>>realize it was a remake of the Omega Man until a few
minutes into it. <<
>>>
>>>It really says something that I found "Omega Man"
much more entertaining 
>>>and 
>>>satisfying.  Not kidding.
>>>
>>
>>Well, it isn't per se a remake of "Omega Man".  That was
an adaptation
>>(and, imho, a bad one) of Matheson's story (don't remember whether it
>>originally was novel -length) <<
> 
> 
> Just for clarification, I'm not the one who called it a remake of
"The Omega 
> Man."  That was webjockey/Blair.

And just to be clear (although Amy was specific)--it wasn't me (it was 
the other Blair).

Blair
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