Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Does that sound like the Stephen King of the supermarket rack? The man behind Maximum Overdrive, behind Children of the Corn? Doesn't, does it? Well, that is the opening paragraph to "The Body", the autobiographical story on which Reiner's movie was based. Stand By Me actually glosses over the nuance and depth of King's story. It distills and condenses it into the spoon-fed medium of a two-hour flick...
...SICK OF people bashing Stephen King. Any discussion of horror movies or books leads to the inevitable disparagement of King as pop slash-master, ghoulmonger, corpsedragger, goresplasher--as anything but a writer of merit. When Rob Reiner's Stand By Me was released, the deservedly glowing reviews mentioned the story's author in as offhand way as possible--as if it was good despite being written by King...
...powerful Catholic Church, mobilized by Cardinal Sin, and the United States, through the efforts of Ambassador Stephen Bosworth, also play an influential role...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Patricia Blake, Tom Callahan, John S. DeMott, William R. Doerner, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Gregory Jaynes, Marguerite Johnson, James Kelly, Stephen Koepp, Richard N. Ostling, Jay D. Palmer, Sue Raffety, J. D. Reed, George Russell, Thomas A. Sancton, Richard Stengel, Anastasia Toufexis, Claudia Wallis, Michael Walsh, Richard Zoglin...
Sport Magazine recently asked Stephen J. Gould, professor of biology and zoology, to write an essay about the Mick for its 40th anniversary edition...