{"id":10865,"date":"2007-06-09T09:08:51","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T16:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/06\/09\/this-is-not-your-fathers-omega-man.html"},"modified":"2007-06-09T09:08:51","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T16:08:51","slug":"this_is_not_your_fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/09\/this_is_not_your_fathers.html","title":{"rendered":"This is not your father&#8217;s <i>Omega Man<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, Richard Matheson&#8217;s 1954 novel, <em>I am Legend<\/em>, was damned scary, and the 1964 filn, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0058700\/\">The Last Man on Earth<\/a><\/em>, gave me nightmares when I caught it on TV as a kid.&nbsp; Of course, the 1971 Charlton Heston <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0067525\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Omega Man<\/a> <\/em>turned it all into a weird, very 70s near-self-parody, and &nbsp;there&#8217;s where the story ended.<\/p>\n<p>Until now.&nbsp; In December, <em>I am Legend <\/em>hits the screen &#8212; with a very unfunny-appearing, non-wisecracking Will Smith.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/wb\/iamlegend\/medium.html\" target=\"_blank\">Looks &#8230; good<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, Richard Matheson&#8217;s 1954 novel, I am Legend, was damned scary, and the 1964 filn, The Last Man on Earth, gave me nightmares when I caught it on TV as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45633,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/02\/whats-old-and-not-so-old-is-new-again.html","url_meta":{"origin":10865,"position":0},"title":"What&#039;s old (and not so old) is new again","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 2-Oct-14 10:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Really? 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