rsu@cbscc.UUCP (Rick Urban) (04/26/85)
NEWSFLASH! (via USA TODAY for April 26th, 1985) Stephen King will direct his first motion picture for Dino DeLaurentiis starting in July at Dino's studio in North Carolina. The name of the film is "Maximum Overdrive", and is based on King's short story "Trucks", another story from the NIGHT SHIFT collection. I don't know about the rest of you, but it seems unwise to me for King to be using this property, which is so thematically similar to "Christine". I hope he pulls it off. In other news, THINNER just became a #1 bestseller in the NY Times Book Review. Anyone want to lay bets as to how soon it gets snapped up by Hollywood (even though it appears to present difficulties as far as weight for the lead -- maybe DeNiro could play Billy Halleck)? Rick Urban AT&T Network Systems Columbus, Ohio ...!cbosgd!cbscc!rsu
uggworek@sunybcs.UUCP (Donald Gworek) (04/30/85)
In his Playboy interview a few years ago, he said he'd like to
do 'The Shining' all over again.
Hope!
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Don
-- "Thought can not know itself, because it can not step outside
itself. Nor is it an activity that can be understood by what
it produces (art, science, dreams)."