If you're familiar with this site, you know of my fondness for Stephen King -- I've written at length about my favorite books, posted oddities, biographies, and successfully plugged outstanding amateur adaptations. So, here we go with another gem I stumbled upon on You Tube.Filmed in 1986, Rob Reiner's Stand By Me, an adaptation of King's novella The Body from Different Seasons, remains one of the best King movies ever made. (Even I've lost count of how many films have been made from this man'...
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After pulling out all the stops for his 1986 monster of a novel, IT, Stephen King went in the opposite direction for his next book. While IT is epic, sprawling and supernatural, Misery is small, claustrophobic and strictly human.Misery tells the now familiar tale of romance novelist Paul Sheldon's winter of discontent (to put it mildly), at the hands of his "number one fan" -- a crazed nurse named Annie Wilkes who rescues him from a car wreck in a freezing storm, brings him home, nurses him bac...
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