A week after James Gandolfini died, we lost another Jersey boy: novelist, short story writer, film and TV screenwriter Richard Matheson. His was not as well-known a name to the general public as Gandolfini’s, certainly, and perhaps only familiar to sci fi and fantasy fans, the genres within which he scored some of his most memorable successes. When he died, Steven Spielberg, whose early career received a huge boost when he directed the made-for-tv movie Duel (1972) which Matheson adapted from his own short story, said, “For me, he is in the same category as Bradbury and Asimov.”
Personally, I don’t think he stood in that same tier with Bradbury, Asimov, Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein – the real sci fi giants. Nor did he stand in any rung below them. Rather, he stood off to the side.
Clarke grappled with our place in the cosmos, Bradbury used sci fi and...
Personally, I don’t think he stood in that same tier with Bradbury, Asimov, Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein – the real sci fi giants. Nor did he stand in any rung below them. Rather, he stood off to the side.
Clarke grappled with our place in the cosmos, Bradbury used sci fi and...
- 6/28/2013
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
Sporting News, a 126-year-old news magazine, will scrap its print edition and go online-only starting Jan. 1. The online version will be daily; gone will be the weekly, biweekly and monthly editions, the company said on Tuesday. The only print editions remaining will be the six sport-specific yearbook previews for baseball, NFL, college football, college basketball, fantasy football and fantasy baseball. "Having spoken with many of our longtime subscribers, we recognize this is not a popular decision among our most loyal fans," publisher Jeff Price and editor-in-chief Garry D. Howard wrote in a...
- 12/11/2012
- by Alexander C. Kaufman
- The Wrap
Music industry execs tell us how Apple's new syncing service might help them--and everyone from Rhapsody to Rapidshare.
One of the interesting things about the new iTunes in the Cloud service Apple announced Monday is that it doesn't only include the music that you buy through iTunes. Through an additional service, called iTunes Match, Apple will also sync any music you own (that has a match among the 18 million songs in the iTunes store) to all of your devices.
The knee-jerk reaction from some was to say Apple had effectively created a way for users to pirate songs from wherever and have Apple launder their files, exchanging them for for clean ones. "This puts together a model that allows people to make money off of pirated music," Jeff Price, founder and CEO of digital music hub TuneCore told Mashable.
The service will cost $24.99 a year, and Apple is reportedly doing...
One of the interesting things about the new iTunes in the Cloud service Apple announced Monday is that it doesn't only include the music that you buy through iTunes. Through an additional service, called iTunes Match, Apple will also sync any music you own (that has a match among the 18 million songs in the iTunes store) to all of your devices.
The knee-jerk reaction from some was to say Apple had effectively created a way for users to pirate songs from wherever and have Apple launder their files, exchanging them for for clean ones. "This puts together a model that allows people to make money off of pirated music," Jeff Price, founder and CEO of digital music hub TuneCore told Mashable.
The service will cost $24.99 a year, and Apple is reportedly doing...
- 6/8/2011
- by E.B. Boyd
- Fast Company
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