The long wait begins. . . the Dark Tower movie is set to be released in about 2 1/2 years. that means the wait is shorter than the wait between some of the novels. There are several King projects I remain excited about. Some of these links are old... real old. But it also seems like the fans are fed news that a movie is being made... only for the lights to go out and no one to ever say another thing.
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1. Dr. Sleep. http://talkstephenking.blogspot.com/2009/11/is-dr-sleep-really-sequal.html
2. Wind Through The Keyhole. http://talkstephenking.blogspot.com/2009/11/stephen-kings-wind-through-keyhole.html
3. Cell miniseries. http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Stephen-King-s-Cell-Now-A-TV-Mini-Series-18654.html
4. IT remake. http://liljas-library.com/showinterview.php?id=73
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5. Under The Dome series. http://www.scificool.com/steven-spielberg-to-go-under-the-dome-with-stephen-king/
6. Bag of Bones miniseries. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1212452/board/thread/156750799
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7. Home Delivery movie. http://www.stephenking.com/future_works.html
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8. You Can't Kill Stephen King, movie (I think I'm looking forward to it.) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1691452/
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9. The Talisman. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384580/
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10. Insomnia. (I doubt this is still in the works...) http://www.mania.com/kings-insomnia-movie-gets-director_article_55247.html
Things I wish were in the works:
1. The Stand Complete and Uncut audio edition.
2. Pet Semetery audio edition.
3. Needful Things mini series.
4. The Mist unabridged audio cd. Not the 3d sound. (The Frank Muller edition would be best)
Scottsman: Review of Full Dark No Stars
I bumped in to the first review I've seen of Full Dark, No Stars. It was by Stephen McGinty writing for The Scottsman. McGinty spoke very highly of the stories.
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We are first given this quick summery, "1922" and "A Fair Extension", the first and third stories, are average entertainments. "Big D, River" is a brutal story of rape and revenge, which has the feel of an old-school pulp, but elevated by stark insights and a relentless momentum. The story of a mystery writer served up as a treat to a psychotic son by his mother is genuinely disturbing, but nowhere near as chilling as "A Good Marriage", the final tale..
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McGinty compares King's Story, A Good Marriage, to the disturbing feelings encountered first reading Red Dragon. I remember having those same terrified feelings reading Red Dragon! A Good Marriage is about a mother with two grown children, who decides to clean out the garage while her husband is away. She discovers evidence that he is a serial killer. Now that is seriously messed up, gang! Of course, it's also why we read Stephen King.
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This final, energetic endorsement is offered: "The genius of King is not the fecundity of his imagination, great though it is, but the empathy he can create between the reader and a character, and for all their horrors his books are accurate portraits of blue collar life. He is, I believe, our Dickens, and not a national, but global treasure."
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SOA Star Talks About What It's Like To Hang With King
Kim Potts at TV Squad has posted an article titled, "'Sons of Anarchy' Star Kim Coates Talks Season 4, Tig Tattoos and Hanging With Stephen King." Here’s the quote about King.
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Tig has had an even bigger role this season, from accompanying Gemma when she was on the lam and staying at her father's (Hal Holbrook) house to helping clean up the mess with his caretaker with assistance from Stephen King ... those were funny moments. And Stephen King is a big fan of the show, so what was it like to work with him?
.It was really so much fun. I mean, you know, you never know what's going to happen every year, really. We have an outline, but when I found out that I was going to be on ... we call it the Gemma Island, which means she's on the lam and she wasn't going to be around (Clay or Jax), and I got to go take care of her. So, that was kind of different for Tig. I'm usually with the guys all the time. And this season, as you're about to find out, I mean, I was really just with Gemma, then a couple of shows with the boys, and now they're all going to Ireland. But Tig doesn't go. He takes care of the home fires.
.So it's all been great. And the opportunity that I got, perhaps more than some of the other fellas, was I got to work with Hal Holbrook and Stephen King. They're legends, and it was remarkable because they never called me 'Kim.' They just called me Tig, they're just such fans of the show. Hal Holbrooke called me Tig the whole time, Stephen King, 'Tig' this, 'Tig' that. And I didn't even say, 'Call me Kim.' It was like, 'Fine, Tig is good. If you want to call me Tig, Stephen, I'm good with that.'
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The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates
I just read The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates in Stephen King's book of short stories, "Just After Sunset." I really liked this story.
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Twilight Zone:
Many of the stories in Just After Sunset remind me of the feel of the Twilight Zone. This story not only has the tone of the Twilight Zone, it reminds me of a specific episode. The Twilight Zone's "Long Distance Call" is the story of a grandmother who just can't let go. It's actually not very good.
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King's story is about a woman whose husband has died in a plane crash. As his funeral is being planned downstairs, his wife gets a call from him! He warns her of some upcoming events. The story ends with a Twilight Zone like twist.
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Death
So how does the dead husband describe death? Interestingly, it's grand central station! But don't think the light at the end of the tunnel is a train engine, because there are no trains. There is an escalator that goes somewhere. (I would not push the down button on any elevators, gang!)
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And time is slippery. That is, time on his side is not the same as it is on ours. That reminded me of elements in the dark tower.
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Just After Sunset is proving to be a true King classic, chalk full of strong stories.
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Twilight Zone:
Many of the stories in Just After Sunset remind me of the feel of the Twilight Zone. This story not only has the tone of the Twilight Zone, it reminds me of a specific episode. The Twilight Zone's "Long Distance Call" is the story of a grandmother who just can't let go. It's actually not very good.
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King's story is about a woman whose husband has died in a plane crash. As his funeral is being planned downstairs, his wife gets a call from him! He warns her of some upcoming events. The story ends with a Twilight Zone like twist.
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Death
So how does the dead husband describe death? Interestingly, it's grand central station! But don't think the light at the end of the tunnel is a train engine, because there are no trains. There is an escalator that goes somewhere. (I would not push the down button on any elevators, gang!)
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And time is slippery. That is, time on his side is not the same as it is on ours. That reminded me of elements in the dark tower.
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Just After Sunset is proving to be a true King classic, chalk full of strong stories.
Review, Lilja's Library: The World Of Stephen King
picture: Annie is trying to look scary. Age 8..
Lilja's Library has been the best Stephen King website out there for years. There's several reasons: He seeks out and gets the best interviews. This includes interviews with King himself. Movie directors, artist, other writers, secretaries all gladly answer Lilja's questions.
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The website is also successful because it is up to date. There's a lot of sites that lag way behind in their news. You can stay up to date by friending him on facebook.
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I have enormous respect for his knowledge and genuine humility. Those two don't always go together!
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Lilja's Library, published by Cemetery Dance, finally made it to my mailbox this Summer. That's a long journey, when you think about it. From a computer in Sweden to the California desert. . . those words have gone through a lot before they get to me.
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This is a big book. Not over sized, just full of content. I enjoyed all of it!
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The problem:
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As soon as the book arrived it presented a problem for me; do I read it cover to cover, or by topic? I love books that are just full of information, but don't have to be read in order. So, I happily bopped through this book in the random order that I wanted. I used it as a reference, something to pass time when waiting in the car for my wife and at bed time.
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The only problem with not reading it in order is that I soon become confused as to what articles I already read. That's okay, I just read some of them again.
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What I like:
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1. Lilja's narration is chatty and easy to understand. He isn't trying to impress me, it's more like he's a friend telling me about his most recent read.
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2. Pure energy! The book is written with real passion for the subject. You never sense that he gets weary of all the writing. I think one helpful thing is that the book is a collection of essay's and reviews from his website. So it wasn't done in one long sitting.
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3. The interviews. This surprised me, but I really enjoyed the interviews. All of them were great. I don't usually get real excited about interviews, but Lilja asks some great questions. His down to earth tone puts people at ease. He asks stuff the constant reader wants to know.
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4. Reviews. Lilja doesn't pretend to like everything Stephen King has written; but he's not petty. He doesn't pick on stories or spend his reviews complaining. In fact, he often finds positive things in stories or books that just didn't sit well with me. His reviews sometimes show me hidden gems I missed. I like his positive attitude toward King and the S.K. universe.
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It did become something of a joke for my wife (who would read me the book as I drove places.) I would name a S.K. book or movie I really didn't like. "Hey, let's see if Lilja liked it!" Most of the time, he did like it, and had found something to like that we'd missed.
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There are some things in the Stephen King universe I would have passed up, but reading Lilja's Library has caused me to check it out. For instance, the black and white version of The Mist. I would have completely ignored this DVD if Lilja hadn't so adamantly recommended it. (He really likes the movie version of The Mist.)
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5. The reviews cover a large range of things. Lilja doesn't just review the books and short stories, he reviews the books in a lot of different mediums. For instance, he covers: Audio editions, movies, scripts, television episodes and more. In fact, he even gave a review of a replica of Christine.It represents what it was when it was written.
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Sometimes he has reviews on things I didn't know existed. Like BBC radio shows.
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6. Lilja does a good job making a distinction between audio and hard copies of the books. I would ahve never caught the differences, but he is able to explain how different media bring changes to the story.
Sometimes you have to remember that articles were written first for Internet. Lilja will refer to a picture (not present in the book) or some other feature that was on the website. I really like this, since it shows that they didn't try and change everything for the book.
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If you are a Constant Reader, you'll like this book a lot.
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LINKS:
Buy it here: $40, http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/lilja01
My interview: http://talkstephenking.blogspot.com/2010/05/interview-with-lilja-of-liljas-library.html
What I Learned Today
I watched two movies today. First, Pet Semetery 2 (thanks AMC fear fest). The second movie I watched was Return of the Jedi. By the way, both had people getting electrocuted!
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So here's what I learned:
Pet Semetery 2: Don't bury your moms boyfriend in a pet semetery.
Return of the Jedi: Don't install a bottomless pit in your throne room.
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These are important life lessons. You're welcome.
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So here's what I learned:
Pet Semetery 2: Don't bury your moms boyfriend in a pet semetery.
Return of the Jedi: Don't install a bottomless pit in your throne room.
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These are important life lessons. You're welcome.
The Secretary Of Dreams 2 Initial Impressions
Wow! The Secretary Of Dreams Volume Two arrived today. My wife bought it for my birthday -- November 10. I peaked. So, I guess my full review will come after November 10.
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I will say this (from a true Californian) -- Awesome, dude. Like, totally way out.
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Just some early quick obervations.
- The book is big. It is also very durable. Nicely bound, heavy pages, but not too big to read. It's not just a coffee table book.
- Almost every page has drawings. Lots of them. The book is heavily illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne.
- The book contains the full text of the King stories. They are not chopped down comic versions.
Dollar Baby: Boogeyman
I enjoyed Anita Guidera's article published in The Irish Independent titled, "Horror story has a happy ending with King's blessing." She discusses 32 year old Irish filmmaker Gerard Lough's half hour version of "The Boogeyman." The film had a cast and crew of just 25!
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Guidera quotes Lough, "I am not a big horror fan but I wanted to make a film that had people on the edge of their seats and not just show blood and guts. . . I was so lucky with the cast and crew that I worked with and I think we have produced a really good film."
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Links:
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Here is Lilja's review of The Boogeyman: http://www.liljas-library.com/showreview.php?id=262
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Pictures: CD FUll Dark No Stars
Here are some pictures from Cemetery Dance's edition of Full Dark No Stars. Looks awesome!
Cemetery Dance Special Edition: Full Dark No Stars
Cemetery Dance announced today that they are relasing a special edition of Full Dark, No Stars.
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Cemetery Dance says they brought together a team of five artists to create nearly twenty exclusive illustrations for our edition including black and white pieces and glossy color tip-ins:
Full-color front and back cover artwork by Tomislav TikulinColor and B&W artwork for "1922" by Glenn ChadbourneColor and B&W artwork for "Big Driver" by Jill BaumanColor and B&W artwork for "Fair Extension" by Alan M. ClarkColor and B&W artwork for "A Good Marriage" by Vincent Chong.
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This fine collectible volume will be published in three editions printed in two colors on a high-quality paper, and the oversized and slipcased Collector's Gift Edition will be issued with the smallest print run of any Stephen King Gift Edition since we published From a Buick 8 in 2002. As many collectors know, that was one of the rare Stephen King Gift Editions to sell out before publication and to go up in value significantly over the years.
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Secretly rolling at the printer since September and on schedule to ship at the end of the year, the Cemetery Dance Deluxe Special Edition of Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King will be the perfect addition to any collection!
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Price tag:
Gift edition, $75. order her: http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/king05
By the way, this might sound expensive, but it is the same price Scribner charged us for the "limited" edition that was really no different from the first edition! Cemetery Dance is actually offering something of real value here. And no, they don't give me a thing to tell you that! But if you collect King, this is probably worth your money. There are 1,750 copies being printed.
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Limited edition, $350. Traycased & Signed Limited Edition Hardcover. There are 750 copies being printed. http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/king05b
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There is a waiting list for a lettered edition.
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Cemetery Dance says they brought together a team of five artists to create nearly twenty exclusive illustrations for our edition including black and white pieces and glossy color tip-ins:
Full-color front and back cover artwork by Tomislav TikulinColor and B&W artwork for "1922" by Glenn ChadbourneColor and B&W artwork for "Big Driver" by Jill BaumanColor and B&W artwork for "Fair Extension" by Alan M. ClarkColor and B&W artwork for "A Good Marriage" by Vincent Chong.
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This fine collectible volume will be published in three editions printed in two colors on a high-quality paper, and the oversized and slipcased Collector's Gift Edition will be issued with the smallest print run of any Stephen King Gift Edition since we published From a Buick 8 in 2002. As many collectors know, that was one of the rare Stephen King Gift Editions to sell out before publication and to go up in value significantly over the years.
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Secretly rolling at the printer since September and on schedule to ship at the end of the year, the Cemetery Dance Deluxe Special Edition of Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King will be the perfect addition to any collection!
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Price tag:
Gift edition, $75. order her: http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/king05
By the way, this might sound expensive, but it is the same price Scribner charged us for the "limited" edition that was really no different from the first edition! Cemetery Dance is actually offering something of real value here. And no, they don't give me a thing to tell you that! But if you collect King, this is probably worth your money. There are 1,750 copies being printed.
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Limited edition, $350. Traycased & Signed Limited Edition Hardcover. There are 750 copies being printed. http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/king05b
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There is a waiting list for a lettered edition.
Halloween: The prefect time to fix your spider gate
photo credit: http://www.bangordailynews.com/story/Living/Stephen-King-fan-repairs-mangled-front-gate,156466
.Bangor Daily News has an interesting update on Stephen King's gate. If you remember, a woman crashed into King's unique gate on September 26 of this year. The article focuses on Leamen Allen who works at Allenfarm Fence Company in Hermon. He has experience working on King's property, and several years ago worked on the crew that reinforcedthe fence around King's personal library. (I wish I had a library big enough to build a fence around!)
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Aislinn Sarnacki gives some details on the fence: The 270-foot long, wrought iron fence surrounds the high profile-home that King purchased with his wife, Tabitha, in 1979. Crafted by Terry Steel of Steel Forge in Bridgton in 1982, the fence and gates are embellished with iron flying animals resembling bats or gargoyles and a spider web motif. King and Steel collaborated on the design. Five 8 x 10 photos of the fence pre-demolition were taped to the workroom wall for Leamen to re-fer to as he straightened, welded, cut and replaced parts of the gate."
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Sarnacki describes the damage to the gate: The gate’s focal point is a giant, spindly spider. During the crash, the legs on its right side were yanked from its body.
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Leaman says that when the gate came in, it looked like a "dead spider laying on the floor." An appropriate analogy, since Leman is a Constant Reader since eigth grade. But get this quote, the article quotes Leman as saying he has read so much King that he had to tell himself to "branch out." What's he talking about? There are other authors out there?
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Sarnacki gives us one last quote from Lemamen that's great! “One thing I’d like to learn about the fence is where Stephen’s inspiration came from for the design. If I was ever to chat with him, as much as I’m interested in his writing and everything, I’d rather talk about his fence.”
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The full article is here, and is fantastic. Also there are several pictures of the gate that are quite interesting.
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S.K. Presents The Seventies
Generally speaking, I hate the seventies. I'm a product of the seventies, so I like that part. I just can't stand most of it.
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1. Politics: Nixon, Ford, Carter. Need I say more?
2. Colors. Brown and Yellow with nasty splashes of orange. Avocado green furniture and harvest gold appliances. (Just watch a lost episode of All In The Family.)
3. Movies. All of them. Except Star Wars and Carrie, okay?
4. Clothes. Polyester in particular, and bell bottoms. Butterfly collars. Oh, how about polyester leisure suits. My grandpa gave me one of those (in the 90's!) which I proudly disposed of. Ties were pretty bad, too. They looked like long ugly bibs.
5. Mobile homes. With license plates on the backs.
6. Shag carpet.
7. Sedans. I owned a 1979 Chrysler LeBaron. It was not a friendly car. And all of those things were boats! El Camino's were pretty nasty, too. Was it a car, or a truck?
8. Afros. I don't miss them, do you?
9. Disco.
10. Long side burns.
.There, aren't you glad to have that list? But I began to think about how Stephen King had given us the 70's. It wasn't that bad! In fact, if you had to offer something int he 70's, horror was definitely the way to go!
.In 1974 King gave us Carrie. It was not only a great first book, but a wonderful offering for the seventies. A girl with a wacko mom is harassed to the point of madness. Carrie's mama is afraid of the changing times. In fact, as the sexual revolution bloomed all around, Carrie's mama saw sex as sin (even in marriage). Of course, Carrie's mother is not the villain in the novel. She's part of what makes Carrie messed up, but Carrie's peers are the villains. Just a quick note on Carrie at this point; I'm not sure that girls gym classes still have open showers -- But I'm not doing an investigation!
.What about Salem's Lot? It was King's idea to bring vampires into the modern world; well, the modern world of 1975. Though maybe not immediately apparent to the reader, Salem's Lot has some political commentary. King told The Fright Report" (Oui Magazine, January 1980), " "I wrote 'Salem's Lot during the period when the Ervin committee was sitting. That was also the period when we first learned of the Ellsberg break-in, the White House tapes, the connection between Gordon Liddy and the CIA, the news of enemies' lists, and other fearful intelligence. During the spring, summer and fall of 1973, it seemed that the Federal Government had been involved in so much subterfuge and so many covert operations that, like the bodies of the faceless wetbacks that Juan Corona was convicted of slaughtering in California, the horror would never end ... Every novel is to some extent an indavertant psychological portrait of the novelist, and I think that the unspeakable obscenity in 'Salem's Lot has to do with my own disillusionment and consequent fear for the future. In a way, it is more closely related to Invasion of the Body Snatchers than it is to Dracula. The fear behind 'Salem's Lot seems to be that the Government has invaded everybody." (quoted from wikipedia)
.The Shining is a mix of horror and the psychological inner-workings of the family unit. But think about this, while many of us were watching Sesame Street and Mr. Rodgers, King was showing us what the family was really like. King's often gritty view of jack's unpinning gives us a view of what was really happening, but no one was talking about!
.The work that would crown King was his 1978 offering of The Stand. Reread the early chapters of The Stand and notice how much social commentary is there. The original is definitely dated! I like it that King writes about the time he's in. He gives us literary time capsules.
.In 1979 King gave us The Dead Zone. This is a great novel for the 70's, since it gives us a truly evil politician who must be done away with. There can be little doubt that Nixon's crimes were on Kings mind as he penned the novel. As much as Under The Dome was a commentary on the political situation America found herself in (from King's point of view) in the Bush/Chaney administration, The Dead Zone was commentary on the political situation. Under The Dome is about a group of people who are manipulated. The Dead Zone shows us one wildly crazy politician out of control. King's versions of Nixon verses Bush.
.Also in 1979, King gave us The Long Walk. This is once again mirrors the social/political mood of the country as it shows a dark future. Both this and Running man make me think of George Orwell's 1984. (Written -not published- in 1948. . . get it?)
.King acts as mirror to the times. For the 70's, it was a very dark mirror. He's said before that he enjoyed taking society apart in The Stand. And the America of the 1970's really did need Stephen King's knife taken to it.
.By the way, when you read the original version of The Stand, notice how hollow it feels. It has that same empty feeling that the 70's had. I know, King had to chop it up, and I'm sure that added to the strange feeling.
.What kind of a picture of the 1970's did King give us?
.He showed us politicians out of control. Gary Hoppenstan writes in The Gothic World Of Stephen King, "the fiction of Stephen King has special relevance to his readers by reflecting the emptiness of post-water gate 70's --"
.More than just the politician starting to lose it, King dared to rip society itself apart in The Stand. Can you read between the lines here? "Something is really wrong with our world! It would be okay if all fell apart. Then we could confront the evil in a more direct manner."
.The real horror that King digs up is the individual. Depressed, often drunk, pressured by conformist -- the characters in King novels are perfect pictures of the people we found in the 1970's. He gives us ordinary guys pushed to the edge, about to lose it. (Road work) In this sense King acts as a prophet. More than one Bachman book explores this theme. Isn't' that the theme of: Carrie, Rage and The Shining?
.We can say that King's view of society during the 70's was bleak. He pulled consistently fro the underdog, though in many cases it didn't come out all that good for them in the end. Danny Torrance made it out of the 70's alive, but he had to step over the bodies of Carrie White and Johnny Smith.
Chart Of The Zombies
wired.com must have a lot of time of their hands. They put a strange Stephen King hypothesis to the test. King once theorized that zombie movies are more popular when the economy is good. He followed this up by saying that Vampire flicks tend to rise when the markets go down. So Wired decided that a good use to time is to chart the theory. Turns out, their data reveals King was wrong.
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Here's the link (same for the picture credit)
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/09/pl_zombietv/?pid=3363#ixzz12Uw4DD7Y
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/09/pl_zombietv/?pid=3363#ixzz12Uw4DD7Y
King Funds Classic rock Lessons!
picture: BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY JOHN CLARKE RUSS.
Bangor Daily News has an article titled, "Stephen and Tabitha King fund classes for rock ’n’ roll wannabes in Brewer." TheKing's have given the Brewer School Department a $10,000 grant that will provide after-school rock ’n’ roll guitar classes.
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Nok-Noi Ricker's article includes these quotes from King:
“I love the guitar."
"I’ve been playing since I was 16, and if I’d had lessons, I might have actually been able to play a little"
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Hilton Weeps For Meyer
Perez Hilton's blog is all wet today with his big alligator tears for Stephanie Meyer. Seems Meyer didn't make the top 10 list of America's favorite author. Be careful if you go over there, Hilton's website not only makes my browser security go crazy, but I had to wring my computer out when I left for all his weeping.
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Hilton titled his blog post, "Stephenie Meyer Was Snubbed!" Hilton called the poll "unfair" and claimed that they only asked people over 18. Gosh, I guess when we want to know what my kids are reading, we'll peak in the children's section at Barnes and Noble. It may be that King remains popular because he actually bothers to give us scary vampires; as opposed to -- whatever that was Meyer was trying to do.
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Here's the real question: Why is Hilton so hostile to King? has he read Stephen King? Or, perhaps even just as important, has he acutally read Stephenie Meyer? Just reading the two explains everything! Meyer doesn't belong on a list with J.R.R. Tolkein; King does!
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http://perezhilton.com/2010-10-13-stephen-king-named-americas-best-author
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Hilton titled his blog post, "Stephenie Meyer Was Snubbed!" Hilton called the poll "unfair" and claimed that they only asked people over 18. Gosh, I guess when we want to know what my kids are reading, we'll peak in the children's section at Barnes and Noble. It may be that King remains popular because he actually bothers to give us scary vampires; as opposed to -- whatever that was Meyer was trying to do.
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Here's the real question: Why is Hilton so hostile to King? has he read Stephen King? Or, perhaps even just as important, has he acutally read Stephenie Meyer? Just reading the two explains everything! Meyer doesn't belong on a list with J.R.R. Tolkein; King does!
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http://perezhilton.com/2010-10-13-stephen-king-named-americas-best-author
S.K. Still America's Favorite
QNTD posted an entry, reporting that a new Harris Poll shows that Stephen King is still "America's favorite author."
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List goes like this:
1. Stephen King.
2. James Patterson.
3. John Grisham.
4. Nora Roberts, J.D. Robb
5. tom Clancy.
6. J.R.R. Tolkein
7. Dean Koontz
8. Danielle Steel.
9. J.K. Rowling.
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The article asks where Stephenie Meyer is. Well, turns out she didn't make the top 10. Harris says the poll was conducted online in the U.S. between Aug. 9 and 16 with 2,775 adults, aged 18 and over.
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Which brings me to the only real question that can be asked at the end of such a poll: When is George Beahm going to revise his wonderful biography, "Stephen King, America's best Loved Bogeyman."
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Stephen King Tattoos
An article in the huffington post titled "15 Amazing Literary Tattoos From Diehard Bookworms" it promised." caught my attention. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eva-talmadge/15-amazing-literary-tattoos_b_758480.html
It started, "From "Ecclesiastes" to "House of Leaves," from Dante to Stephen King, "The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide" is a celebration of and tribute to the vibrant and vital Babel that is literary culture today."
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Now there are a lot of reasons that would catch my attention! First, my love for Bible (Ecclesiastes). Second my interest in Stephen King. And hey, who can pass up the line "The Word Made Flesh." Which is a theological idea relating to the incarnation -- when God became flesh and. (Try John 1:14). I have a pastor friend who has Bible tattoo's all over him. They're pretty awesome. But for some reason, I never thought about a Stephen King tattoo. (Or, for that matter, an E.E. Cumming's tattoo!)
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I went through Huffington's entire slide show, and I didn't spot the Stephen King tats. Go figure. So I did some hunting on my own and found some pretty cool stuff. My favorite is the first one -- Carrie on some dude's arm! Now that is beyond freaky.
CARRIE: http://tattoo.about.com/library/bljoef042405a.htm
Yep, it's Pennywise! www.mainemaritimemuseum.org/uploads/slideshow_images/tattoos_005.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.mainemaritimemuseum.org/what_to_see/slideshows/slideshow.php%3Fslideshow_id%3D9&usg=__7IYAAoNLqGtqZNxCh1yUmmut-W4=&h=350&w=215&sz=16&hl=en&start=6&sig2=olXmXTswS6ZUtOeA6-a8eA&zoom=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=xOf7xwvWzin73M:&tbnh=120&tbnw=74&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522stephen%2Bking%2522%2B%2522tattoos%2522%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1T4ACAW_en___US356%26tbs%3Disch:1%26prmd%3Dio&ei=3qC0TJDuDofmsQOuksCPCA
http://www.ratemyink.com/?action=ssp&pid=61046
Christine! I like this one, too. The color is awesome! http://www.checkoutmyink.com/tattoos/mizuzinkaholik/stephen-kings-christine-2
It started, "From "Ecclesiastes" to "House of Leaves," from Dante to Stephen King, "The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide" is a celebration of and tribute to the vibrant and vital Babel that is literary culture today."
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Now there are a lot of reasons that would catch my attention! First, my love for Bible (Ecclesiastes). Second my interest in Stephen King. And hey, who can pass up the line "The Word Made Flesh." Which is a theological idea relating to the incarnation -- when God became flesh and. (Try John 1:14). I have a pastor friend who has Bible tattoo's all over him. They're pretty awesome. But for some reason, I never thought about a Stephen King tattoo. (Or, for that matter, an E.E. Cumming's tattoo!)
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I went through Huffington's entire slide show, and I didn't spot the Stephen King tats. Go figure. So I did some hunting on my own and found some pretty cool stuff. My favorite is the first one -- Carrie on some dude's arm! Now that is beyond freaky.
CARRIE: http://tattoo.about.com/library/bljoef042405a.htmYep, it's Pennywise! www.mainemaritimemuseum.org/uploads/slideshow_images/tattoos_005.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.mainemaritimemuseum.org/what_to_see/slideshows/slideshow.php%3Fslideshow_id%3D9&usg=__7IYAAoNLqGtqZNxCh1yUmmut-W4=&h=350&w=215&sz=16&hl=en&start=6&sig2=olXmXTswS6ZUtOeA6-a8eA&zoom=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=xOf7xwvWzin73M:&tbnh=120&tbnw=74&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522stephen%2Bking%2522%2B%2522tattoos%2522%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1T4ACAW_en___US356%26tbs%3Disch:1%26prmd%3Dio&ei=3qC0TJDuDofmsQOuksCPCA
The Dark Tower. http://flashyourtattoo.com/blog/tattoos-body-art/stephen-king-the-gunslinger/
http://www.tattoogathering.com/Tattoos/Chris_Dingwell/tattoos_36011.html
http://www.ratemyink.com/?action=ssp&pid=61046
Christine! I like this one, too. The color is awesome! http://www.checkoutmyink.com/tattoos/mizuzinkaholik/stephen-kings-christine-2
Spooked By Disney: Poll Results
Stephen King recently said that one of the scariest movies is Bambi. The fire -- the man shooting the deer -- King found it all terrifying (as a kid, okay!)
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So, what Disney movies do you find scary? Here's the poll resutls, with some of my commends on which movies I find scary.
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RESULTS:
Bambi, 2
Snow White, 4
Sleeping Beauty, 3
Sleeping Beauty, 3
Aladdin, 2
Pinocchio, 4
Steam Boat Willy, 0
Fantasia, 5
The Lion King, 2
101 Dalmatians, 1
Pinocchio, 4
Steam Boat Willy, 0
Fantasia, 5
The Lion King, 2
101 Dalmatians, 1
The Adventures Of Ichabod & Mr. Toad, 2
The Fox and the Hound, 0
Finding Nemo, 1
Little Mermaid, 1
Darby O'Gill & The Little People, 3
Disney does not scare me, 2
Disneland prices scare me, 8 (ha-ha!)
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The Fox and the Hound, 0
Finding Nemo, 1
Little Mermaid, 1
Darby O'Gill & The Little People, 3
Disney does not scare me, 2
Disneland prices scare me, 8 (ha-ha!)
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MOVIE I FIND SCARY:
I think, as I said in the previous article, that Mr. Toad is pretty freaky. But also would like to mention just how scary Finding Nemo is. There's a lot of death in that movie! Mass death.
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The Shawshank Redemption
Finished reading Rita Hayworth And The Shawshank Redemption. I've seen the movie several times, and enjoyed the novella very much. A few short notes on the story.
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Title:
The book uses the name "Rita Haywroth" while the movie is only titled "The Shawshank Redemption." The audio is also only marketed as "The Shawshank Redemption." Of course, Rita Hayworth has a very important role in both the movie (where she is actually given screen time) and the book. Rita Hayworth was a movie star who rose to fame during the Great Depression. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000028/
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The narrator:
Probably the thing I liked least about the book was the narrator. Red is locked in a prison cell, so the story relies more on his ability to pick up bits of gossip than on first hand information. This gets really wild when the actual prison break takes place. He's not there! So how Andy got out is left to Red's imagination. The constant guessing instead of story-telling gets tiresome.
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Of course, in the movie, this isn't a problem! Because the movie isn't locked in to Red's point of view. It is able to pull away. By the way, in the movie Red was masterfully played by Morgan Freeman.
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I did enjoy Red's recital of various prison breaks. And I also enjoyed it when the story seemed to end, then picked up again. Since I was listening on CD, this actually caught me by surprise since I didn't know how many pages were left..
The book is more a tale of escape than the more complicated elements of revenge that the movie introduces.
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The Whistle
As noted in a previous blog, Shawshank bears similarities to Escape From Alcatraz. King, via the narrator Red, mentions that in the movies a whistle always goes off when there is an escape. Well, I was watching "I am a fugitive from a chain gang" (1932) in which there are two prison breaks. The first time they are in a field, so there is no whistle to go off. Instead the score itself blares with trumpets -- making almost the exact sound! The escape in that scene is brilliant. Later int he movie there is another prison escape, and sure enough, the whistle goes off. (By the way, Shawshank has a much better ending)
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The Whistle
As noted in a previous blog, Shawshank bears similarities to Escape From Alcatraz. King, via the narrator Red, mentions that in the movies a whistle always goes off when there is an escape. Well, I was watching "I am a fugitive from a chain gang" (1932) in which there are two prison breaks. The first time they are in a field, so there is no whistle to go off. Instead the score itself blares with trumpets -- making almost the exact sound! The escape in that scene is brilliant. Later int he movie there is another prison escape, and sure enough, the whistle goes off. (By the way, Shawshank has a much better ending)
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The writing
The first person narrative also tends to talk over the story, instead of building it scene by scene, the way King usually does. I actually like this kind of writing, since it is more direct. King is good at making decades slip by in this book, without feeling like they've just been skimmed by. He doesn't belabor the time elements, but as time passes the reader feels it go by. The reader ages with the characters.
The first person narrative also tends to talk over the story, instead of building it scene by scene, the way King usually does. I actually like this kind of writing, since it is more direct. King is good at making decades slip by in this book, without feeling like they've just been skimmed by. He doesn't belabor the time elements, but as time passes the reader feels it go by. The reader ages with the characters.
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What I liked:
1. The story is great.
2. The writing moves the story forward at a pretty fast pace.
3. The movie. I think the movie advanced the story in some very key ways, actually making it better.
4. I listened to this on CD. I really liked the reading by Frank Muller. He is absolutely awesome! Audio file says, "Muller's flawless reading enriches King's powerful story, providing a superlative audio program."
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Editions:
1983, a story in Different Seasons.
1983, a large print book.
1995, a audio recording.
1994, a major motion picture.
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See my post: Escape From Alcatraz & The Shawshank Redemption here, http://talkstephenking.blogspot.com/2010/09/escape-from-alcatraz-and-shawshank.html
Halloween: The Stanley Hotel
Every year at Halloween time the Stanley Hotel starts popping up all over the web. The reason is directly connected to Stephen King; the Stanley Hotel was the inspiration for The Shining. about.com just did an article titled, The World's Most Haunted Places.
.Stephen Wagner writes, " King did not write the novel there, nor was the 1980 Stanley Kubrick movie filmed there, but the TV movie version of The Shining was used as the location. Today, the elegant hotel is a popular resort and destination for ghost hunters; a ghost tour is even offered to visitors."
.He then gives us a wonderful list of ghost sightings at the hotel. Check it out.
.Signing for Full Dark No Stars
Picture: River Run Bookstore: http://www.riverrunbookstore.com/photo-gallery/see-what-the-store-looks-like.
I can't wait for Full Dark No Stars! King had said there would not be a signing. . . but he's changed his mind. Unfortunately, the upcoming signing will not be in California. Sulk.
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Dread Central reports that King will be signing the book on December 2nd at River Run Bookstore in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. You have to buy a ticket (which includes the book). A ticket is 27.99. That means you get a SIGNED Stephen King book for under $30. And there will only be 400 copies out there. We won't mention how much a signed copy of Under The Dome went for!
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Dread Central article: http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/40262/book-signing-stephen-kings-full-dark-no-stars-happening-after-all
Store website: http://www.riverrunbookstore.com/
King's website news: http://www.stephenking.com/promo/full_dark_no_stars/fdns_book_signing.html
King book among most sought after
The Christian Science Monitor has an article titled, "Top 100 most sought-after out-of-print books in 2010." #9 is Rage. I have a copy of this (the paperback). Of course, it was also published in The Bachman Books. However, after a series of school shootings, King asked his publisher not to print the book anymore. Imagine a book banned by Stephen King himself!
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I'm not sure how bookfinder came up with their list, but I can think of several more "sought after" King books. Not to deny at all that Rage is worth the hunt! But here are a few more. . .
1. The Stand leatherbound.
2. A true first edition salem's Lot (with misspelling on dust cover)
3. A copy of The Plant.
4. First edition Gunslinger.
5. First edition Carrie.
6. Audio of The Mist read by Frank Muller.
7. From A Buick 8, Cemetery Dance
8. Salem's Lot deluxe lettered edition.
9. My Pretty Poney, Whitney Museum
10. Six Stories, Philtrum Press
.The full article is here: http://www.bookfinder.com/books/bookfinder_report_2010/
Scariest Inanimate Movie Object No. 4
thepittsburghchannel.com has posted a list of the "scariest inanimate movie" list. Object number four is none other than our favorite 1958 Plymouth Fury -- Christine.
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The list includes, The Refrigerator From 'Ghostbusters' and other horrific wonders. But honestly, Christine could wipe out that fridge!
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The article says that King is a master of the everday object comign to terrifying life. Roger Ebert joked that King would soon announce his new book would be on the garage door opener to the famed Amityville house. Funny, Roger!
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I like this line, "Jokes aside, the Plymouth in Christine is just plain evil. It's so evil it kills an assembly worker as it is being put together in the auto plant. Twenty years later, the car goes on a killing spree, driving itself around and taking out high school kids left and right."
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By the way, Christine is not an "IT" (that's Pennywise), Christine is a She. But we'll let that slide.
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The film has a silly premise, but in the hands of director John Carpenter, who also directed the horror classic "Halloween," it is able to transcend the premise and deliver quite a few scares and thrills.
.Haven Renewed And Ratings
Movieweb.com reports that Syfy has given Haven a second season. This means another 13 episodes to be filmed in beautiful Nova Scotia. Filming will commense in Spring, 2011 and should premire next Summer.
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I found this interesting: "Since debuting this summer on Syfy, Haven has scored a 1.9 Household rating and 2.6 million total viewers, including over 1.2 million Adults 25-54 and 989,000 Adults 18-49. These numbers are double the timeslot average from 3Q09 (+100% in HH rating, +111% in P2+). In addition, Haven held 82% of the viewers from its Eurekalead-in. (Note: all ratings data reflects final averaged Live + 7 DVR data for episodes that aired through 9/19/2010.) In Canada, Haven ranks as one of the top five series for Showcase in Adults 25-54."
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http://www.movieweb.com/news/NEH72s9XuOq4KL
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I found this interesting: "Since debuting this summer on Syfy, Haven has scored a 1.9 Household rating and 2.6 million total viewers, including over 1.2 million Adults 25-54 and 989,000 Adults 18-49. These numbers are double the timeslot average from 3Q09 (+100% in HH rating, +111% in P2+). In addition, Haven held 82% of the viewers from its Eurekalead-in. (Note: all ratings data reflects final averaged Live + 7 DVR data for episodes that aired through 9/19/2010.) In Canada, Haven ranks as one of the top five series for Showcase in Adults 25-54."
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http://www.movieweb.com/news/NEH72s9XuOq4KL
AMC: Fear Fest
Once a year AMC goes crazy. It's great. Fear Fest is an annual horror movie marathon. and, if you're a B-movie fan, you can watch a fistful of B's on AMCTV.COM. .
For King fans, the day to tune in is October 9. AMC will be airing, King classics Cujo, Pet Sematary, The Shining, Sleepwalkers and Graveyard Shift.
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Also of interest is the Friday The 13th marathon running from October 18-22. They say this is the first time the films have aired together (at least on AMC). I haven't seen any of these films except the first one. They will also be airing Halloween 1-5.
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To be honest, I'm more excited about this list -- also showing in October on AMC: Night of the Living Dead (1968), Frankenstein (1931), Dracula (1931), The Wolf Man (1941), and many others. Now that's some good stuff! Is Night Of the Living Dead really considered a classic?
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THE WALKING DEAD:
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What's really being touted is the new AMC series, "The walking dead." The pilot is written and directed by Frank Darabont (The Mist / Shawshank Redemption).
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Dread Central offers this synopsis, "The Walking Dead" tells the story of life following a zombie apocalypse. It follows a group of survivors, led by police officer Rick Grimes, traveling in search of a safe and secure home. Andrew Lincoln (Love Actually, Teachers, Strike Back) portrays the lead role of Rick Grimes while actor Jon Bernthal (The Pacific, The Ghost Writer) portrays the character Shane, who worked with Rick in the police department before the zombie disaster. Other cast members include Laurie Holden ("The Shield"), who plays Andrea, one of two sisters who join the survivors of the zombie plague, Steven Yeun as Glenn, an expert scavenger, and Sarah Wayne Callies ("Prison Break"), who plays Rick's wife, Lori. http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/40178/new-trailer-walking-dead-and-amc-announces-fearfest
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AMC lineup for Fear Fest: http://blogs.amctv.com/movie-news/2010/10/amc-fearfest-kickoff.php
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Vamps That Don't Scare
I like Stephen King's vampires. Of course, recent culture has made a hard U-Turn from the traditional formula of scary vampires. We can give special credit to the Twilight series; something my ten year old loves and I -- well, I love my daughters, so I endure it. But truth is, I like the scary stuff. The original, true, Dracula was pretty good.
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The Past Wasn't Always So Scary:
For all the recent complaining that modern, romantic, vampires are not very scary -- we should also admit that the past is chalk full of vampires that didn't scare. Vampire movies that were meant to scare! The 1960's -- 1970's pumped out some pretty big stinkers. I've been watching "Dracula has risen" (1969), and must admit -- I'm not one bit scared. Not even jumpy. My wife and I laughed when Dracula made his great appearance. And this seems to be true of the entire era.
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Of course, these Vampire movies always dodge back a hundred years or more. King did something brilliant by moving the Vampire to our world. (Well, our world via 1970's).
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Stephen King Weighs In:
For King's own views on the modern vampire crisis; the taming of the vamps, King has an outstanding short essay short essay for the first volume of the upcoming DC Comics titled "Suck On This." (I like that).
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Here's a great line: What should [vampires] be? Killers, honey. Stone killers who never get enough of that tasty Type-A. Bad boys and girls. Hunters. In other words, Midnight America. Red white and blue, accent on the red. Those vamps got hijacked by a lot of soft-focus romance." Ahhh, it's music to my ears.
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King saves his best lines for the end. He writes, "In the end, though, it’s all about giving back the teeth that the current “sweetie-vamp” craze has, by and large, stolen from the bloodsuckers. It’s about making them scary again."
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READ KING'S FULL TEXT HERE:
A Dude Named CARRIE!
Remember Brat Productions version of Carrie? Philly.com's "The daily post" has offered their take ina review titled, "In campy version of Carrie, heroine is a bloody guy."
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Director Michael Alltop offers this interesting insight, "The characters don't see a guy. They see a lumpy, awkward girl." Alltop explains that the switch in gender is twofold: First it heightens Carrie's status as an outcast, and second, it's funny.
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To hype up the camp, Bart Productions encourages people to show up in their high school prom outfits. Yikes! Like those still fit.
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Regarding the altarations to the book and movie, the article notes, "Alltop posits the reason King gave Jackson his blessing to adapt his debut novel is that it deviates from the norm. "We're not trying to be the movie; we're not trying to be Broadway," Alltop says, referring to the 1988 musical that lasted only five performances on the Great White Way.
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But, as Ransom says, Jackson's script reveres the movie and the book, and Brat isn't skimping on the special effects, hiring a three-man team to recreate Carrie's telekinesis, including bursting lightbulbs, flying scissors and an exploding car.
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What Scares SK? Disney.
Jodi Jill at examiner tells us that Stephen King was on the "The Vampire Revival" panel at the new York Festival. Of course, the subject had to come up; what scares Stephen King? The answer: Disney!
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Hey, before anyone says Disney isn't scary, try riding Mr. Toads Wild Ride at Disneyland. Just to fill you in, you get hit by a train and go to hell. HELL! I mean, hot, blazing, fire and brimstone HELL! I was so stunned, I jumped in line and road it twice again. So, I'm with you, Mr. King -- Disney is scary!
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Exactly what about Disney is scary to Stephen King? Jill fills us in, explaining that King's "youngest memory of being terrified was the forest fire scene in “Bambi. Not just a fire either he was also petrified of the man who shot the deer. While everyone might of thought he was joking, he definitely wasn't."
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TCM The Boogens
I was watching TCM's "Now Playing." I love Turner Classic Movies! Old movies are a joy. Some of them are off the scale great. And I do have TCM to thank for introducing me to "the best worst movie ever made" -- Plan 9 from outer space.
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One of the movies noted as coming up on TCM is "The Boogens." Would have slipped right by, except that Robert Osborne said that Stephen King had said it was "one of his favorites." Really? Because nothing they were running on screen made it look like anything more than another B-spook-im movie. But, with that endorsement, I'll have to check it out.
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IMBD says, "In his Twilight Zone Magazine review, author Stephen King called The Boogens... "A wildly energetic monster movie!" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082094/trivia?tr0713862
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fright.com called The Boogens a "1981 cheapie" and that it was "notable primarily for the fact that Stephen King rather curiously gave it a rave in the now defunct Twilight Zone Magazine, and because it took 16 years to be released on video (which gave it an undeserved cult following). It's about giant carnivorous worms loose under a small mining town." http://www.fright.com/edge/boogens.html
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Humm! TCM has put it on their "underground" broadcasting. Meaning late night horror. Osborne says, "These quirky and irreverent and occasionally awful films are scheduled for one reason, to help you escape the normal."
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The King article was titled, "Digging the Boogens" -- Twilight Zone Jul 1982.
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THE BOOGENS:
Taft Entertainment Pictures
Director: James L. Conway
Producer: Charles E. Sellier, Jr.
Screenwriters: David OäMalley, Bob Hunt
(Story by Tom Chapman and David OäMalley)
Cinematography: Paul Hipp
Editor: Michael Spence
Cast: Rebecca Balding, Fred McGarren, Anne-Marie Martin, Jeff Harlan
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TCM, October 23, 2010 @2:30 a.m. (eastern time.)
Another Review Of THE MIST
Michael Maiatico, Columnist at Reel to Real has a great article titled, "Mist produces a chilling response." Maiatico launches his review by telling us not to confuse the Mist with the rip off "The Fog." The Mist is, in his words, a "genuinely horrific tale."
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While Maiatico is duly impressed with the monsters, he keenly picks up on what all true King fans know: It's not really about the monsters! As Maiatico puts it, it's about how monserous people can become! "The film creates a frightening and depressingly realistic depiction of human society and really makes you wonder what separates us from the beasts."
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I hope you read the review; but let me add one more quote, because I totally agree with this one: "So while I am a huge Stephen King fan and there are plenty of Easter eggs for any of his fans that watch this film, I’m generally not a huge fan of his screen adaptations. “The Mist” was a surprising treat that not only did the novella justice, but actually improved upon it."
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I must say again, as I always do when discussing this film: Skip the ending. By the way, Lilja's Library -- which I'm reading now -- liked the ending. Actually, he seemed to like it a lot. He also has some good notes on the black and white version.
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The katet of 19
Key to the Dark Tower novels is the number 19. This is interesting, since most horror writers like to play with the number 13 (ie: 1408). I'll start this in list form, but there's more to find than one post can deliver. I am hopeful those of you who are in the know on this subject will fill me in. Here's my start. . . ya'all start sharing what you know about 19.
.In looking into the importance of 19, the best reference thus far has been Robin Furth's Dark Tower concordance.
.Chassit is "High speech" for 19.
- Of course, King began writing The Gunsliner when he was 19.
- In Wolves of the Calla, 19 is the "mystery number."
- Robin Furth notes in the DT Concodance that they gather firewood in bundles of 19.
- King was hit by a mini-van June 19, 1999.
- Names that add up to 19, "Donald Frank Callahan" "Richard Patrcik Sayre" "Claudia Y Inez Bachman" "Susannah, Odetta, Detta" "Roland the gunslinger"
- Jakes locker number is 883. (adds up to 19)
- Bev Vincent, in his Cemetery Dance column News From The Dead Zone, mentions a connection between the number 19 and Cannibals. "For the 19 fanatics out there, it's worth noting that the problems at the apartment start on July 19."
- The robot Andy is guarded by directive 19. (Does Andy remind anyone of C-3PO?)
- 1999 is considered the "keystone year."
- When Roland is in Jack Mort's head: Code 19
- The lot with the rose is on 298. (adds up to 19)
- In the Shining there are 19 steps between the lobby and the second floor.
- The shining, the dangerous room was 217. (2+17 = 19)
- In Wizard and Glass, there are 19 working gas pumps in Citgo.
- In Dream Catcher, Duddits lives at 19 Maple Ln.
Below is the most complete list I could find. Some of the entries are either redundant, or nuts! But it's a cool list. http://www.desperation.dk/nineteen.htm
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