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Some Random Dude
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 1:12 pm Post subject: Stephen King |
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In Hell I Burn Joined: Sat Dec 27, 2003 3:06 am Posts: 473 Location: In an asylum surrounded by green woods
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Stephen King | | Birth Name Stephen Edwin King
Date of birth (location) 21 September 1947 Portland, Maine, USA
Mini biography Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his parents separated when Stephen was a toddler, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of the elderly couple. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged.
Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and then Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.
He and Tabitha Spruce married in January of 1971. He met Tabitha in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University of Maine at Orono, where they both worked as students. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.
Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many of these were later gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.
In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching high school English classes at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.
In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co. accepted the novel Carrie for publication. On Mother's Day of that year, Stephen learned from his new editor at Doubleday, Bill Thompson, that a major paperback sale would provide him with the means to leave teaching and write full-time.
At the end of the summer of 1973, the Kings moved their growing family to southern Maine because of Stephen's mother's failing health. Renting a summer home on Sebago Lake in North Windham for the winter, Stephen wrote his next-published novel, originally titled Second Coming and then Jerusalem's Lot, before it became 'Salem's Lot, in a small room in the garage. During this period, Stephen's mother died of cancer, at the age of 59.
Carrie was published in the spring of 1974. That same fall, the Kings left Maine for Boulder, Colorado. They lived there for a little less than a year, during which Stephen wrote The Shining, set in Colorado. Returning to Maine in the summer of 1975, the Kings purchased a home in the Lakes Region of western Maine. At that house, Stephen finished writing The Stand, much of which also is set in Boulder. The Dead Zone was also written in Bridgton.
In 1977, the Kings spent three months of a projected year- long stay in England, cut the sojourn short and returned home in mid-December, purchasing a new home in Center Lovell, Maine. After living there one summer, the Kings moved north to Orrington, near Bangor, so that Stephen could teach creative writing at the University of Maine at Orono. The Kings returned to Center Lovell in the spring of 1979. In 1980, the Kings purchased a second home in Bangor, retaining the Center Lovell house as a summer home.
Because their children have become adults, Stephen and Tabitha now spend winters in Florida and the remainder of the year at their Bangor and Center Lovell homes.
The Kings have three children: Naomi Rachel, Joe Hill and Owen Phillip, and three grandchildren.
Stephen is of Scots-Irish ancestry, stands 6'4" and weighs about 200 pounds. He is blue-eyed, fair-skinned, and has thick, black hair, with a frost of white most noticeable in his beard, which he sometimes wears between the end of the World Series and the opening of baseball spring training in Florida. Occasionally he wears a moustache in other seasons. He has worn glasses since he was a child.
He has put some of his college dramatic society experience to use doing cameos in several of the film adaptations of his works as well as a bit part in a George Romero picture, Knightriders. Joe Hill King also appeared in Creepshow, which was released in 1982. Stephen made his directorial debut, as well as writing the screenplay, for the movie Maximum Overdrive (an adaptation of his short story "Trucks") in 1985.
Stephen and Tabitha provide scholarships for local high school students and contribute to many other local and national charities.
Stephen is the 2003 recipient of The National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
-Stephen King The Official Website
Stephen King The Official Website | Stephen King's Short Movies | Lilja?s Library | IMDb filmography
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Movies
- The Talisman (2005)
- Bag of Bones (2005)
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (2005)
- Riding the Bullet (2004)
- Secret Window (2004)
- Dreamcatcher (2003)
- The Dead Zone (2002)
- The Mangler 2 (2001)
- Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
- Children of the Corn VII: Revelation (2001)
- The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)
- Sometimes They Come Back... for More (1999)
- Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (1999)
- The Green Mile (1999)
- Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998)
- Apt Pupil (1998)
- Night Flier (1997)
- Sometimes They Come Back... Again (1996)
- Thinner (1996)
- Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996)
- Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995)
- Dolores Claiborne (1995)
- The Mangler (1995)
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
- Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1993)
- The Dark Half (1993)
- Needful Things (1993)
- Sleepwalkers (1992)
- Misery (1990)
- Graveyard Shift (1990)
- Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
- Pet Sematary (1989)
- A Return to Salem's Lot (1987)
- The Running Man (1987)
- Creepshow 2 (1987)
- Maximum Overdrive (1986)
- Stand by Me (1986)
- Silver Bullet (1985)
- Cat's Eye (1985)
- Children of the Corn (1984)
- Firestarter (1984)
- Cujo (1983)
- The Dead Zone (1983)
- Christine (1983)
- Creepshow (1982)
- The Shining (1980)
- Carrie (1976)
TV-Movies- Salem's Lot (2004)
- The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2003)
- Firestarter 2: Rekindled (2002)
- Carrie (2002)
- Quicksilver Highway (1997)
- Trucks (1997)
- The Langoliers (1995)
- The Tommyknockers (1993)
- Sometimes They Come Back (1991)
- Salem's Lot (1979)
Mini-Series & TV-Series- Desperation (2005)
- Kingdom Hospital (2004)
- Rose Red (2002)
- The Dead Zone (2002)
- Storm of the Century (1999)
- The Shining (1997)
- The Outer Limits (1995)
- The Stand (1994)
- The X-Files (1993)
- Golden Years (1991)
- IT (1990)
- Monsters (1988)
- The Twilight Zone (1985)
Shorts- All That You Love Will Be Carried Away (2004)
- The Man in the Black Suit (2004)
- Autopsy Room Four (2003)
- Night Surf (2002)
- Rainy Season (2002)
- Strawberry Spring (2001)
- Paranoid (2000)
- Cain Rose Up (1999)
- Ghosts (1997)
- The Lawnmower Man (1987)
- Disciples of the Crow (1983)
- The Woman in the Room (1983)
- The Boogeyman (1982)
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Last edited by Some Random Dude on Wed Sep 28, 2005 4:39 am, edited 34 times in total.
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Some Random Dude
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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Some Random Dude
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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Last edited by Some Random Dude on Wed Sep 28, 2005 4:44 am, edited 9 times in total.
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Polityk
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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Mod of the Living Dead Joined: Fri Nov 22, 2002 4:30 pm Posts: 3346 Location: Where dead angels lie
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This looks very good and I guess it can be moved to completed collections... once you fix the layout!
I have no idea how either.
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DxaKrator
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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The Practice Girl Joined: Fri Jul 18, 2003 3:08 am Posts: 6099 Location: Back in the glistening folds of Barbara Bush's Twat
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Yeah,this is a good looking collection thread,very good dude. When it is done let me know and I'll move it to the finished section.I think I'll trash bin the other one if there isn't any objections..actually there is a few that need to be either finished by the person that started it or just dumped and redone by someone that is willing to put in a whole effort for the long haul..some of the collections can get quite lengthy and can be rather time consuming so think about it before you jump in for those that are wanting to start one, the main thing I guess is finish what you start as you can see on somr of these other ones that are half assed at best and haven't been touched since Sept. in some cases.No real time limit on them,just make sure you keep them updated.
But this thread right here is pretty much as concise and professional as I have seen on this board(including my own) So again good work dude A five star job
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MCMLXXXVIII
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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The Ancient One Joined: Sat Sep 20, 2003 9:40 pm Posts: 2523 Location: In a dark room...
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Some Random Dude
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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In Hell I Burn Joined: Sat Dec 27, 2003 3:06 am Posts: 473 Location: In an asylum surrounded by green woods
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Thanks guys
I don't know how to rip dvd's, but I do know how to collect them I've spent almost a night and a whole day on this yesterday. Yet there's still more to verify and look up. I think I can finish this thread in about a week. Most of the movies are on the ED2K network, I've just got to verify them and pick the best version. Btw should I add series, ebooks like that as well?
I read about the Lawnmowerman. The film is very, very loosely based on a story from Stephen King. According to King it had nothing to do with his story and wanted to be removed from the credits. I never liked the movie btw, so uhm shall I bin The Lawnmowerman?
I don't need the other Stephen King thread anymore. I used the Fileheaven Collection Builder to make this thread, but somehow it's ruining the layout. Does someone know why and if there's a simple way to fix it? I'm not really looking forward and start a thread from scratch
Btw, find mistakes or have something for the thread, don't hestitate
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MCMLXXXVIII
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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The Ancient One Joined: Sat Sep 20, 2003 9:40 pm Posts: 2523 Location: In a dark room...
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The only connection between the Lawnmower Man movie and King's short story is the title. The story is about a bizarre lawnmowing service, nothing at all to do with augmented simpletons or VR. Check out this page at Lilja's Library and see if you can find this much more respectful version!
King was right to have his name removed, the producers obviously wanted some free extra promotion by putting his name on the poster.
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Iconoclast
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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Mod of the Living Dead Joined: Sun Nov 17, 2002 2:17 am Posts: 1302 Location: The Last House On The Left
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Can ADD and/or verify:
I'll check out rest of them later (run out of time)
Btw, that TheRealworld site has loads of King movies verified. [ Add all 10 links to your ed2k client ]
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Some Random Dude
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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In Hell I Burn Joined: Sat Dec 27, 2003 3:06 am Posts: 473 Location: In an asylum surrounded by green woods
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Thanks man, you've really helped me out.. There are a couple of movies that I didn't found yet. I'll take a look first if there are full sources before I post them. Never heard of the TheRealworld. It looks good
I'll take The Lawnmowerman out of the collection next time I post an update I Read the story over at liljas-library. I knew King's story, but didn't know it was filmed. Any ideas where I can get this short version? It's not available on http://www.stephenkingshortmovies.com/ if it was, it would be very low quality anyway Just watched King's The New Twilight Zone - Gramma that's on that site, quality is pisspoor, but that series is still awesome. I wish they would release The New Twilight Zone on DVD..
Don't know about the Golden years. CD1 is 585.84 MB and CD2 is 759.93 Personnaly I wouldn't download it...
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Polityk
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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Mod of the Living Dead Joined: Fri Nov 22, 2002 4:30 pm Posts: 3346 Location: Where dead angels lie
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Does anyone know how to fix the fookin table?
I can't find the problem.
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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No idea.
I'm sure they would know in FileHeaven. garandou, FlatErik or someone...
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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Site Admin Joined: Sat Nov 02, 2002 1:35 am Posts: 19756 Location: En España
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and god said, "and ye shall close all tags and conform to the W3 standards", but the film would not, and the forum page was besmirched and the film left incomplete for ever more, until thee who is righetous and true should correct thee by removing the offending film.
*removed *
Doesn't have the tags closed, therefore your browser searches for the next instance of | to close that current table, unfortunately the next instance is that of phpbb code so the forum posts mess up. Methinks you forgot to copy and paste the whole thing when pasting here thats all.
That movie code needs replacing with all the tags closed (ie complete one) and adding to the begining of the second post in this thread
Great thread btw Re-add the offending movie and i'm sure DXA will get a warm glow moving this thread to completes
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