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Posted: January 25, 2012, 10:55:49Don’t miss out on the two contests running here at Lilja’s Library…
Contest 1: Tell the story of Marv and win IT (ends February 19th)
Contest 2: A new chance... (ends February 1st)
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Thanks!
Posted: January 28, 2012, 00:01:04Thanks to all you loyal fans of Lilja’s Library. The last month the number of visitors to the site, the facebook group and the twitter feed has increased more than I dared dream of. Soon the site will have its 3,000,000 visit and the facebook group are about to reach 11,700 followers. Twitter is a bit behind with just over 2,300 followers but that is still very satisfying numbers. And this is all because of you who visit the site and spread the word about it. For that I thank you!
Looking ahead I see two contests ending in February (please check them out because the prizes are really good and you don’t want to miss out on this) but that’s not all. During February I have at least one more contest coming up, and it’s a really good one with a prize I think many of you would love to win. And, if Ka is with us there might be as many as two more contests during February as well. Not 100% sure of those yet but keep your fingers crossed and keep an eye out for them.
The easiest way to stay updated is by following Lilja’s Library on facebook or/and twitter. That way I will let you know when something happens. If you don’t want to do that I recommend that you check in here a couple of times a day. And please keep spreading the word about Lilja’s Library.
Again, thank you so much for all the support!
Lilja
Did you catch Stephen King?
Posted: January 27, 2012, 00:05:19Did you catch Stephen King in Pet Sematary? Did you see his wife Tabitha in Knightriders? Did you see the ATM call him an asshole in Maximum Overdrive? You probably did but what you might not know is that King has done a lot of cameos in both his own movies and in others. If you’re up for it I’ll be happy to guide you so that after you’ve read this you’ll know exactly where to find them.
As I said King has done a lot of cameos in both his own movies and in others and every time a new King movie is released the fans hope to see King in it. However, it’s far from all movies that get a visit from the master but still, he is out there. King did his acting debut in George A Romero’s movie Knightriders from 1981. In it he played a spectator who has a pretty sloppy way of eating. And, the lady by his side is none other than his wife Tabitha King.
In 1982 King had a much bigger part in the movie Creepshow where he, in the section called The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill, plays the unfortunate Jordy Verrill who after touching a meteor turns into a mix of a plant and a human. What few know about Creepshow is that King’s son, Joe Hill (author of Horns and the comic Locke & Key), is the kid playing Billy. King returned for Creepshow 2 in 1987 but this time he only did a short cameo as a truck driver that stops to help Lois Chiles character after she’s been in an accident.
The Jordy Verrill role is by far the biggest King has done but he’s done quite a few Hitchcock-like cameos. He played a guy that tries to get some cash from an ATM machine in Maximum Overdrive and it’s here he delivers the classic line “This machine just called me an asshole”. After that he played a minister in Pet Sematary, a bus driver in Golden Years and a cemetery caretaker in Sleepwalkers in which he was joined by Clive Barker and Tobe Hopoper as well, a lawyer in a TV commercial in Storm of the Century and a pizza delivery guy in Rose Red.
You could also see him as Teddy Weizak in The Stand, Tom Holby in The Langoliers, a pharmacist named Mr. Bangor in Thinner and a bandleader called Gage Creed in The Shining (the miniseries). But even though these characters actually had names none of them are anything other than cameos.
King has also done quite a few voice cameos. The first was for an episode of Frasier where he’s listed as the voice of Brian. This voice cameo is really short but you can clearly hear that it’s King’s voice. The next time we could hear King was in Kingdom Hospital (King’s US version of the Danish TV series Riget) in which he plays an AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) sponsor of the seismologist who is visiting the hospital and he is only heard on the other end of the phone line as the seismologist first arrives in Lewiston. In a later episode of Kingdom Hospital King also appears as Johnny B. Good, the janitor at the hospital. We also get to see King in a longer version of the commercial seen in Storm of the Century. King has also done voice cameos in the Dollar Baby Stephen King’s Gotham Café where he plays Steve’s (not King) attorney Mr. Ring. And he did the voice to an animated version of himself in The Simpsons episode Insane Clown Poppy.
With the exception of Knightriders all of the above has been movies based on King’s work but King has also been featured in works by others. In Fever Pitch he plays himself as he pitches the first ball of the baseball season. In George Romero’s Diary of the Dead he does the voice of a radio priest and in Sons of Anarchy he plays the cleaner Bachman.
As you can see, King has been involved in a lot of movies and now you know where you can find him. If you don’t feel like running to your local video store you can check in on the Classic King section here at Lilja’s Library where many of the clips can be found. Good hunting!
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Cracking the Code in ‘Heeere’s Johnny!’
Posted: January 26, 2012, 11:57:57Interesting article about The Shining called Cracking the Code in ‘Heeere’s Johnny!’ from NY Times.
Did you know...
Posted: January 25, 2012, 14:50:29...that back in 1998 King wrote an episode for the TV series The X-Files? It aired (on FOX, February 8:th) as the 10:th episode of the 5:th season of the series and was called Chinga. King wrote this episode with the series creator, Chris Carter who later rewrote most of it...
Since Chinga apparently means "the f-word" in Mexico (apparently it means different things or nothing depending upon which type of Spanish you speak) the title was changed to Bunghoney when it aired outside the US.
It was rumored that King and his son Joe Hill was going to write an episode of The Walking Dead (not happening any more) last year. If you could decide, what TV series would you like King to write an episode for and why?
Original final chapter of 11/22/63
Posted: January 25, 2012, 13:54:13Section: Book » 11/22/63
StephenKing.com has published the original final chapter from 11/22/63. It was replaced with Citizen of the Century but you can now read it here
Haven season 3 update
Posted: January 25, 2012, 08:00:27Section: TV » Haven
Sam Ernst (one of the writers for Haven posted this on his twitter yesterday:
OK,I know every writer sez this,but SERIOUSLY, S3 of Haven will be our best.Writers room is on FIRE.Creepy, weird,big story answers a-comin!
Misery hits Dubai
Posted: January 24, 2012, 21:23:39The stage adaptation of one of Stephen King's most memorable psychological thrillers, Misery, will be brought to the First Group Theatre at Madinat Jumeirah from February 1 to 11 for 16 performances by the London-based theatre company Popular Productions.
Read more here.
Thanks to Herbert West
Excerpt from The Wind Through the Keyhole
Posted: January 24, 2012, 21:10:16Section: Book » The Wind Through the Keyhole
Here is an excerpt from The Wind Through the Keyhole that Scribner released today.
Classic King #37
Posted: January 24, 2012, 13:14:50Section: General news » Classic King
King interview with Bill Maher 2006.
Please join me in Episode by Episode.
Posted: January 24, 2012, 00:46:35I’m going to try something new. It’s really not King related but it’ll fit right in over at my Non-King section. There are some TV series that I really enjoy and follow each week and I was thinking that it would be really fun to get your input on these shows. So, what I’m going to do is review each episode (it will be reviews that are shorter than normal) and hopefully you’ll add your comments about it in the commentary fields and we’ll get a nice discussion about each episode. I’m calling it Episode by Episode. Please join in!
First out is season 2 of the US version of Being Human. Episode 1 aired last week and is now reviewed and I’ll add my thoughts on episode 2 later today. I hope you all follow this series, it’s a good one.
Interview with
