![]() ![]() In addition to I Am Legend and Duel, nine more of his novels and short stories have been adapted as motion pictures: The Shrinking Man (filmed as The Incredible Shrinking Man), Hell House (filmed as The Legend of Hell House), What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return (filmed as Somewhere in Time), A Stir of Echoes, Steel (filmed as Real Steel), and Button, Button (filmed as The Box). He adapted his 1971 short story "Duel" as a screenplay, directed by Steven Spielberg for the television film of the same name that year. Matheson also wrote 16 television episodes of The Twilight Zone, including " Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and " Steel", as well as several adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories for Roger Corman and American International Pictures – House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, Tales of Terror and The Raven. The other two adaptations were The Omega Man, starring Charlton Heston, and I Am Legend, with Will Smith. Matheson himself was co-writer of the first film version, The Last Man on Earth, starring Vincent Price, which was released in 1964. ![]() ![]() He is best known as the author of I Am Legend, a 1954 science fiction horror novel that has been adapted for the screen three times. Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. ![]()
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![]() And then there's the surprising-though ego-pleasing-series of passes thrown Sammy's way, culminating in a highly embarrassing photo of a Hollywood hotshot's hand where it doesn't belong, published in the pages of Us Weekly. Her job interferes with her love life, too, after Charlie is transferred to New York for a huge story just when she's expecting a proposal, and they find that distance combines poorly with Sammy's dedication to her work and her overactive imagination. ![]() ![]() Sammy's role as an advisor to Vice President Robert Gary (RG for short) has led her down some exciting professional paths, like when she accompanies RG on a trip to India to help open pharmaceutical supply lines, and some troubling ones-like when the president secretly asks her to plumb those lines to acquire as yet unapproved drugs for his own personal use. And when all these identities collide-as they do most days-the results are always unpredictable. Lover of Japanese Fighting Fish (and of Charlie Lawton, her Washington Post reporter boyfriend). ![]() Samantha Joyce is many things: Health care policy wonk. The heroine of Kristin Gore's bestselling inside-the-beltway romp Sammy's Hill returns, and this time the laughs are richer and the stakes are higher-at home and in the house (the White House, that is). ![]() ![]() ![]() This novel inspired the highly successful Disney film musical. Trivia: Peter Llewellyn Davies would grow up to be a publisher and was the man who published Australian author P. Pan is the mischievous Greek fawn god of song pipes and woodlands. Peter was one of the five Llewelyn Davies brothers. The name Peter Pan? It came from two sources. ![]() “ostensibly a holiday entertainment for children but really a play for grown-up people.” George Bernard Shaw said that Peter Pan was He called her “my fwendy-wendy.” The girl’s name goes back to the 19th century as a form of Gwendolyn. Barrie “popularized” the girl’s name Wendy, taking it from a five-year-old girl he knew named Barrie Margaret Henle. Barrie wrote “ Peter Pan or, The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up,” a play about an ageless little boy and a London girl named Wendy. The Llewelyn Davies boys were the inspiration for the boy who has adventures in nearby Kensington Gardens in London and the magical Neverland. ![]() ![]() ![]() Little do they know that surviving seventh grade is going to become a true matter of life and death, because Vanguard has an evil presence at its heart: a digital student evaluation system named BARBARA that might be taking its mission to shape the perfect student to extremes! When Max-Maxine Zelaster-befriends her new robot classmate Fuzzy, part of Vanguard One Middle School’s new Robot Integration Program, she helps him learn everything he needs to know about surviving middle school-the good, the bad, and the really, really, ugly. Reluctant readers and robot lovers in elementary and middle school will enjoy this fast-paced read that shows just how strange a place middle school can be, particularly when the new student is a state-of-the-art robot. From the minds of Tom Angleberger, the New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular Origami Yoda series, and Paul Dellinger, an adult science-fiction writer, comes a funny middle school story with a memorable robot title character. ![]() |