An odd-ball SK quiz question
JMACleve
In response to Bev's trivia question:
Maximum Overdrive
Return to Salem's Lot
Silver Bullet
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Jon Skeet
bev vincent <b...@msc.com> wrote:
> Here's an off-the-wall SK trivia quiz question.
>
> Which film adaptations of SK stories have titles
> which contain words which do not appear in the
> titles of the story/novella/novel on which they
> were based.
>
> I can think of at least two.
I suspect you're feeling smug over "The Shawshank Redemption", the
other obvious one being "Stamd By Me". Cat's Eye sort of works too...
Maximum Overdrive, "Stephen King's IT" (or Graveyard Shift, if you
will)...
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Murielle L. Sey
On 28 Apr 1997, bev vincent wrote:
> Here's an off-the-wall SK trivia quiz question.
>
> Which film adaptations of SK stories have titles
> which contain words which do not appear in the
> titles of the story/novella/novel on which they
> were based.
>
> I can think of at least two.
>
>
> --
> Bev Vincent
> Houston, TX
All I can think of is Stand by Me. Maybe I'll think of another,
or more! later.
Hugs
Murielle
bev vincent
Richard Edwards (ri...@cis.ysu.edu) wrote:
: bev vincent (brv@indigo) wrote:
: : Here's an off-the-wall SK trivia quiz question.
: : Which film adaptations of SK stories have titles
: : which contain words which do not appear in the
: : titles of the story/novella/novel on which they
: : were based.
: : I can think of at least two.
: "Stand by Me"
: "The Shawshank Redemption"
: There's two.
Those are the two I was thinking of, but others have come up
with additional entries. I should have thought of Maximum
Overdrive. The one's with "Stephen King's" in the title, well,
I guess I'll grant those honorable mention!
bev vincent
Jon Skeet (jl...@cam.ac.uk) wrote:
: bev vincent <b...@msc.com> wrote:
: > Here's an off-the-wall SK trivia quiz question.
: >
: > Which film adaptations of SK stories have titles
: > which contain words which do not appear in the
: > titles of the story/novella/novel on which they
: > were based.
: >
: > I can think of at least two.
: I suspect you're feeling smug over "The Shawshank Redemption", the
: other obvious one being "Stamd By Me". Cat's Eye sort of works too...
: Maximum Overdrive, "Stephen King's IT" (or Graveyard Shift, if you
: will)...
Jon knows me WAAAAY to well. "The Shawshank Redemption" is the one
which inspired me to post this quiz!!
For those of you who are scratching your heads in confusion, "The"
is not part of the original novella's title.
As I said in another post, I'll grant the "Stephen King's" titles
honorable mention.
Jeff Nathan
bev vincent wrote:
>
> Jon Skeet (jl...@cam.ac.uk) wrote:
>
> <snippage>
>
> : I suspect you're feeling smug over "The Shawshank Redemption", the
> : other obvious one being "Stamd By Me". Cat's Eye sort of works too...
> : Maximum Overdrive, "Stephen King's IT" (or Graveyard Shift, if you
> : will)...
>
> Jon knows me WAAAAY to well. "The Shawshank Redemption" is the one
> which inspired me to post this quiz!!
>
> For those of you who are scratching your heads in confusion, "The"
> is not part of the original novella's title.
>
> As I said in another post, I'll grant the "Stephen King's" titles
> honorable mention.
>
> --
> Bev Vincent
> Houston, TX
Keeping with the spirit of nitpicking that has been going on in some of
the miniseries threads, I'll try and grab me a nit here - Wasn't the
novella titled "Rita Hayworth and THE Shawshank Redemption"?
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4/29/97 8:59:59 AM
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Jeff Nathan <jna...@flash.net> wrote:
>bev vincent wrote:
>>
>> Jon Skeet (jl...@cam.ac.uk) wrote:
>>
>> <snippage>
>>
>> : I suspect you're feeling smug over "The Shawshank Redemption", the
>> : other obvious one being "Stamd By Me". Cat's Eye sort of works too...
>> : Maximum Overdrive, "Stephen King's IT" (or Graveyard Shift, if you
>> : will)...
>>
>> Jon knows me WAAAAY to well. "The Shawshank Redemption" is the one
>> which inspired me to post this quiz!!
>>
>> For those of you who are scratching your heads in confusion, "The"
>> is not part of the original novella's title.
>>
>> As I said in another post, I'll grant the "Stephen King's" titles
>> honorable mention.
>>
>> --
>> Bev Vincent
>> Houston, TX
>
>Keeping with the spirit of nitpicking that has been going on in some of
>the miniseries threads, I'll try and grab me a nit here - Wasn't the
>novella titled "Rita Hayworth and THE Shawshank Redemption"?
I'd love to stick my nose in here since I thought the same thing --
but looked in the book! <g> For some bizarre reason it is titled
"Rita Hayworth And Shawshank Redemption" in Different Seasons.
Denise :)
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bev vincent
Amber G (aun...@concentric.net) wrote:
: bev vincent wrote:
: >
: > Here's an off-the-wall SK trivia quiz question.
: >
: > Which film adaptations of SK stories have titles
: > which contain words which do not appear in the
: > titles of the story/novella/novel on which they
: > were based.
: >
: > I can think of at least two.
: Maximum Overdrive and Stand By Me are the only 2 I come up with. The
: Shawshank Redemption doesn't count 'cause isn't the original story
: called Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption? In this case, the
: movie title contains words that are in the story title. Maybe I didn't
: understand the question. :P Bev?
No, I think you understood the original question. The catch is
that the original title of the novella is "Rita Hayworth and
Shawshank Redemption." No "the". I didn't believe it the first
time someone drew that to my attention about five years ago,
but it is, indeed true!
Alan Powers
brv@indigo (bev vincent) wrote:
>Jon Skeet (jl...@cam.ac.uk) wrote:
>: I suspect you're feeling smug over "The Shawshank Redemption", the
>: other obvious one being "Stamd By Me". Cat's Eye sort of works too...
>: Maximum Overdrive, "Stephen King's IT" (or Graveyard Shift, if you
>: will)...
>Jon knows me WAAAAY to well. "The Shawshank Redemption" is the one
>which inspired me to post this quiz!!
>For those of you who are scratching your heads in confusion, "The"
>is not part of the original novella's title.
>As I said in another post, I'll grant the "Stephen King's" titles
>honorable mention.
Has anyone mentioned "Silver Bullet" yet?
Al
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Jeff Nathan
> >>
> >> : I suspect you're feeling smug over "The Shawshank Redemption", the
> >> : other obvious one being "Stamd By Me". Cat's Eye sort of works too...
> >> : Maximum Overdrive, "Stephen King's IT" (or Graveyard Shift, if you
> >> : will)...
> >>
> >> Jon knows me WAAAAY to well. "The Shawshank Redemption" is the one
> >> which inspired me to post this quiz!!
> >>
> >> For those of you who are scratching your heads in confusion, "The"
> >> is not part of the original novella's title.
> >>
> >> As I said in another post, I'll grant the "Stephen King's" titles
> >> honorable mention.
> >>
> >> Bev Vincent
> >> Houston, TX
> >
> >the miniseries threads, I'll try and grab me a nit here - Wasn't the
> >novella titled "Rita Hayworth and THE Shawshank Redemption"?
>
> I'd love to stick my nose in here since I thought the same thing --
> but looked in the book! <g> For some bizarre reason it is titled
> "Rita Hayworth And Shawshank Redemption" in Different Seasons.
>
> Denise :)
>
> --
> Bumper Sticker Philosophy:
> "Give me ambiguity or give me something else."
>
> doing the *no spam* thing -- replace nospam with hiwaay to send e-mail
Aha! Proving another old point of mine - if you go around picking at
nits, you WILL end up looking like a chimp.
Anyone got a spare banana?
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Jeff Nathan jna...@flash.net http://www.flash.net/~jnathan
4/29/97 12:11:58 PM
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Bob
>
> : : Here's an off-the-wall SK trivia quiz question.
>
> : : Which film adaptations of SK stories have titles
> : : which contain words which do not appear in the
> : : titles of the story/novella/novel on which they
> : : were based.
>
> : : I can think of at least two.
>
> : "The Shawshank Redemption"
>
> : There's two.
>
> Those are the two I was thinking of, but others have come up
> with additional entries. I should have thought of Maximum
> Overdrive. The one's with "Stephen King's" in the title, well,
> I guess I'll grant those honorable mention!
>
> Bev Vincent
> Houston, TX
There are a few movies that are collections... don't know if
they count or not!
Cat's Eye
Creepshow
Creepshow II
Bob
Corky
On 28 Apr 1997 23:13:03 GMT, jl...@cam.ac.uk (Jon Skeet) wrote:
>bev vincent <b...@msc.com> wrote:
>> Here's an off-the-wall SK trivia quiz question.
>>
>> Which film adaptations of SK stories have titles
>> which contain words which do not appear in the
>> titles of the story/novella/novel on which they
>> were based.
>>
>> I can think of at least two.
>
>I suspect you're feeling smug over "The Shawshank Redemption", the
>other obvious one being "Stamd By Me". Cat's Eye sort of works too...
>Maximum Overdrive, "Stephen King's IT" (or Graveyard Shift, if you
>will)...
Jon,
You're 'studying' too hard! "Stamd By Me"??? Ok I'm a little bored :)
That gum you like will come back in style - Corky®
saul milligan
Jeff Nathan wrote:
>
> bev vincent wrote:
> >
> > Jon Skeet (jl...@cam.ac.uk) wrote:
> >
> > <snippage>
> >
>>: I suspect you're feeling smug over "The Shawshank Redemption", the
>>: other obvious one being "Stamd By Me". Cat's Eye sort of works too...
>>: Maximum Overdrive, "Stephen King's IT" (or Graveyard Shift, if you
>>: will)...
>>
> > Jon knows me WAAAAY to well. "The Shawshank Redemption" is the one
> > which inspired me to post this quiz!!
> >
> > For those of you who are scratching your heads in confusion, "The"
> > is not part of the original novella's title.
> >
> > As I said in another post, I'll grant the "Stephen King's" titles
> > honorable mention.
> Keeping with the spirit of nitpicking that has been going on in some of
> the miniseries threads, I'll try and grab me a nit here - Wasn't the
> novella titled "Rita Hayworth and THE Shawshank Redemption"?
Nope. The novella was titled 'Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption'.
Stevie C
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Murielle L. Sey
Hi Bev,
Something has been driving me nuts as we began to anticipate the
airing of The Shining. Something that was posted in this newsgroup. Now,
I don't know if it was you who posted, but I believe you'd be the
person who might just know the answer. The poster wrote that King got the
idea for The Shining after he and Tabitha spent a spooky night in
The Stanley.
Spooky? You know I have to ask. You know I have to know. What
happened the night the Kings were there? Did they see something in the
bathtub? Something on the wall? Did the firehose strike at them?
Whaaaat? Please! This inquiring mind has just *got* to know?
Hugs
Murielle
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bev vincent
Murielle L. Sey (ml...@freenet.calgary.ab.ca) wrote:
: Something has been driving me nuts as we began to anticipate the
Murielle:
It was spooky because they showed up on the last day of the season
when everything was being shut down for the winter. Just about
everyone else had checked out. The Kings were told that they could
stay, but they had to pay cash because the credit card slips had
all been turned in...they just happened to have enough cash to do
it.
The band played on in the ball-room even though they were the
only guests in the hotel. The emptiness and spookiness of the
situation inspired King, who was working on a book about a family
trapped in a haunted amusement park. He says that the entire book
appeared to him that night in the hotel and all he had to do was
to write it down.
S'far as I know, the firehoses stayed in their holders and any
ghosts hid in their rooms...it was just a "frisson" type of
experience.
KLMHomer
he also saw a sign saying that the roads would be impassable between
november and may. i bet THAT gave him something to think about too
it's me, kristen
surely as the blades course is run
maybe my kingdoms finally come
-nin
mmm...something
-homer
Skeezix88
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<Pine.A32.3.93.970429...@srv1.freenet.calgary.ab.ca>,
"Murielle L. Sey" <ml...@freenet.calgary.ab.ca> writes:
> Spooky? You know I have to ask. You know I have to know. What
>happened the night the Kings were there? Did they see something in the
>bathtub? Something on the wall? Did the firehose strike at them?
>Whaaaat? Please! This inquiring mind has just *got* to know?
I think it was just the general spookiness of the hotel (which *is*
spooky) and being there on the last night of the season, being the *only
guests there*, being waited on by the *entire staff* (not 'cause you're
famous, but because there's no-one else to wait on!), eating a lovely
formal dinner in the restaurant while the chairs are up on all the other
tables... hearing the creaks and groans of the old place (over 65 years
old at the time... 88 years old now)... the general eerie beauty of the
Rockies in autumn...
That's all it took.
-Methuselah
Skee...@aol.com
Jon Skeet
Corky <ch...@wiredworld.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On 28 Apr 1997 23:13:03 GMT, jl...@cam.ac.uk (Jon Skeet) wrote:
>
> >bev vincent <b...@msc.com> wrote:
> >> Here's an off-the-wall SK trivia quiz question.
> >>
> >> Which film adaptations of SK stories have titles
> >> which contain words which do not appear in the
> >> titles of the story/novella/novel on which they
> >> were based.
> >>
> >> I can think of at least two.
> >
> >other obvious one being "Stamd By Me". Cat's Eye sort of works too...
> >Maximum Overdrive, "Stephen King's IT" (or Graveyard Shift, if you
> >will)...
> You're 'studying' too hard!
Never!
> "Stamd By Me"??? Ok I'm a little bored :)
I don't understand! What about Stand By Me?
Corky
On 9 May 1997 08:45:06 GMT, jl...@cam.ac.uk (Jon Skeet) wrote:
>Corky <ch...@wiredworld.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 28 Apr 1997 23:13:03 GMT, jl...@cam.ac.uk (Jon Skeet) wrote:
>>
>> >bev vincent <b...@msc.com> wrote:
>> >> Here's an off-the-wall SK trivia quiz question.
>> >>
>> >> Which film adaptations of SK stories have titles
>> >> which contain words which do not appear in the
>> >> titles of the story/novella/novel on which they
>> >> were based.
>> >>
>> >> I can think of at least two.
>> >
>> >I suspect you're feeling smug over "The Shawshank Redemption", the
>> >other obvious one being "Stamd By Me". Cat's Eye sort of works too...
>> >Maximum Overdrive, "Stephen King's IT" (or Graveyard Shift, if you
>> >will)...
>
>> You're 'studying' too hard!
>
>Never!
>
>> "Stamd By Me"??? Ok I'm a little bored :)
>
>I don't understand! What about Stand By Me?
LOL! Well, it made me laugh anyway! Well it is a little early at the
mo!!
>
>--
>Jon Skeet
Jon Skeet
Corky <ch...@wiredworld.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >> "Stamd By Me"??? Ok I'm a little bored :)
> >
> >I don't understand! What about Stand By Me?
>
> LOL! Well, it made me laugh anyway! Well it is a little early at the
> mo!!
I'm still a little lost... Stand By Me was on my original list...
Burma!
stevie canuck
Jon Skeet wrote:
>
> Corky <ch...@wiredworld.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > >> "Stamd By Me"??? Ok I'm a little bored :)
> > >
> > >I don't understand! What about Stand By Me?
> >
> > LOL! Well, it made me laugh anyway! Well it is a little early at the
> > mo!!
>
> I'm still a little lost... Stand By Me was on my original list...
>
> Burma!
I think someone is winding you up about the typo in your original post
Jon. <G>
Stevie C
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Jon Skeet
stevie canuck <mill...@rogerswave.com> wrote:
> I think someone is winding you up about the typo in your original post
> Jon. <G>
Aha... *now* I see it. Thanks Stevie...
That's one of the problems of having a monitor nearly as old as me -
m's and n's look very similar... Doesn't excuse the typo, of course,
but that's why I didn't spot the joke...
Jamie
skee...@aol.com (Skeezix88) wrote:
>I think it was just the general spookiness of the hotel (which *is*
I think the TV Guide article said that he was concentrating on a story
about a family "stuck" in a haunted carnival. The hotel was better
than the carnival, and it provided a way to get the family stuck
(weather).
This certainly had him in the receptive mood.
Jamie
Fav SK Book: THE STAND
Fav SK Movie: THE SHINING (mini-series)
Mercurial Me
On Fri, 23 May 1997 15:54:50 GMT, jaro...@juno.com (Mercurial Me)
wrote:
>It was a haunted amusement park (picky picky me). The story was
>working.
Excuse me... I meant to say that the story was NOT working.
sorry
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On 22 May 1997 19:41:00 -0700, jam...@primenet.com (Jamie) wrote:
>skee...@aol.com (Skeezix88) wrote:
>
>>I think it was just the general spookiness of the hotel (which *is*
>
>I think the TV Guide article said that he was concentrating on a story
>about a family "stuck" in a haunted carnival. The hotel was better
>than the carnival, and it provided a way to get the family stuck
>(weather).
>
>This certainly had him in the receptive mood.
>
>
>Jamie
It was a haunted amusement park (picky picky me). The story was
working. The Mr. and Mrs (King) themselves were stuck up at the
Stanely due to bad weather. King had seen a sign about roads not
being passable after October. Apparently that night the story that
became The Shining just came to him. I think the ideas were already
in place and that the hotel served as a replacement for the park.
Annette