{"id":457,"date":"2002-03-15T10:30:50","date_gmt":"2002-03-16T02:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/15\/imacs-in-the-movies\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:00:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:00:29","slug":"imacs-in-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/15\/imacs-in-the-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"iMacs in the movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16400,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.suntimes.com\\\/output\\\/ebert1\\\/wkp-news-showtime15f.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20020320024137\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.suntimes.com:80\\\/output\\\/ebert1\\\/wkp-news-showtime15f.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 08:36:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 12:15:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 10:08:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 15:26:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 15:26:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Most of the computers in movies for several years have been Macintoshes, maybe because the Mac is the only computer that doesn&#8217;t look like every other computer and therefore benefits from product placement. But this is the first movie in which an entire iMac commercial runs on TV in the background of a shot.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How&#8217;s that for random trivia? Thanks to Roger Ebert&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/ebert1\/wkp-news-showtime15f.html\" title=\"Roger Ebert: Showtime\">review of Showtime<\/a> for this little tidbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the computers in movies for several years have been Macintoshes, maybe because the Mac is the only computer that doesn&#8217;t look like every other computer and therefore benefits from product placement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,2037],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-tv-and-films","tag-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}