Talk:Richard Matheson

message: Richard Corliss of Time Magazine wrote the movie review of I am Legend, called Will Smith Gets Lost in His Legend. In this article Corliss writes:
:Some of Matheson's TV fables — the Twilight Zone story about the gremlin on the airplane wing, the Tales of Terror jape about a Zuni fetish doll chasing Karen Black around her apartment — linger at the base of many a viewer's spine, three or four decades after they were first aired.
I emailed Corliss and said:
Incorrect movie listed:
*Trilogy of Terror
NOT 
*Tales of Terror 
...copy-editor missed this one.
I was adding the information to wikipedia and noticed this. I guess wikipedia isn't the only organization which has mistakes. (See the Encyclopedia Dramatic vs. Wikipedia  study, which showed Wikipedia was more accurate) But unlike wikipedia, I am unable to correct this glaring mistake.
68.93.142.116 (talk) 08:45, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Time article made a mistake

message: I've replaced the "Career" section from the last good version before it was blanked at 01:40, 5 June 2009 by 76.64.225.108.  It was blanked without explanation, and someone has since created an empty Career section and placed an  template.  If this section requires massive editing, please discuss that here or place the relevant template.  Please do not gut the article by blanking entire sections without explanation. 12.233.146.130 (talk) 20:41, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Replacing "Career" section 

message: I thought he was dead.  This article indicates he is still alive!  Wow, that is great.  I love his books.  I am just starting to read them and they really are a treasure.  I am now reading a book called "He is Legend" which is a tribute to Matheson and I thought it was in the form of a memorial, so I am glad to see the old man around to enjoy the tribute.  In the picture, he looks healthy, not sure if he wants to gin up a few more books, though the beauty of his books is that they inspired others to write, so his work is the gift that keeps on giving.  From my end, I just read them and quite glad I have discovered his works.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.139.67.70 (talk) 15:51, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Wow, Old Man Matheson is still alive!

message: :: Today I added references to Locus Online News and Sky News obituaries. The shorter, first-utilized source LA Times (discussed above) may be or may become redundant in which case it should be deleted. It remains because I did not confirm that. Its title does support listing I Am Legend in the infobox.
:: --P64 (talk) 17:34, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  The article now cites 9 obituaries and other posthumous articles --presently refs 3-6, 9, 16, 19-21; the latter six "Retrieved 26 June 2013". The redundant sources (19, for example) should be deleted and the remaining citations completed. --P64 (talk) 17:52, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Obituaries

message: Here are three quotations from today's Sky News obituary [ref name=skynews]. The material may be worth incorporation here or in some of the linked articles.
* Matheson often began with simple ideas, once saying he had written I Am Legend because: "I saw Dracula and it was scary, so I thought if everybody in the world was a vampire, it would be scarier." 
--I guess he means the Bela Lugosi Dracula (1931 film)
* Steven Spielberg: He[SS] said in a statement: "Richard Matheson's ironic and iconic imagination created seminal science-fiction stories and gave me my first break when he wrote the short story and screenplay for Duel. 
--Duel (1971 film)
* Saturn Award: He[RM] was scheduled to receive the visionary award at the Academy of Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Films' Saturn Awards on Wednesday. The organisation said it will be presented posthumously. 
--39th Saturn Awards (tomorrow); our articles do not mention the "visionary award"
--P64 (talk) 17:34, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Tidbits from Sky News

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