I will see if it's still in my On Demand menu.
I will see if it's still in my On Demand menu.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
King will be on ABC's Nightline tonight at 11:35 PM to discuss The Mist.
Master storyteller Stephen King gives a rare, in-depth interview to Jake Tapper of ABC's NIGHTLINE about his career, his views on politics today, and about the highly anticipated film adaptation of his novella, THE MIST.
*runs to program the DVR*
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
According to Bev Vincent, a full transcript of King's appearance will be available on ABCNEWS.com after the Nightline appearance:
Bev Vincent's post
John
Excellent!
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
I saw this last night and it was great. The Mist looks great, I'm really jazzed about the seeing it, rated R and everything.
For me though, it was just cool to see King. He looks all healed up and healthy, I seem to have this forever image of him in my mind, after that accident. He was so skinny and pale --I was worried we would lose him. So he looks good, that is cool.
The interviewer asked him if it was a "dark place" to be Stephen King, I thought it was idiotic. The man has a vivid imagination but that doesn't mean he also can't vividly experience love or joy along with it...just dumb.
At the end, they asked about what should be his epitaph, Stephen King told him "good husband and father", I like that a lot. I think I have always understood on a very deep level that its not just about the books but about the man himself, he's a really cool dude.
The kindness of close friends is like a warm blanket
Here's the link for the entire transcript:
King/Nightline transcript
John
Cool - thanks for that, you can watch sound bites in the video box too
Thanks so much for the link. I totally missed the interview, and I'm glad to be able to read it.
Ditto that, interesting interview
The answer is within
all matter is energy, all energy is GOD
is the video available on any other website?
Good stuff.
I like how he brought up the Rage-Running Man comparison, which was unprompted by Tapper.
People scoff at the comparison-since it seems farcical that the Hamburg cell that perpetrated 9/11 would be sitting around reading copies of the Bachman books along with flight instruction manuals and jihadi training booklets-but it's a fair analogy.
If you're going to worry about how some disturbed individual is going to interpret an horrific scenario outlined in a work of fiction, then no controversial literature would ever be written. Maybe we should take Therese Raquin off the shelves because it might give people the inclination to drown their betrothed. And no, I'm not comparing Stephen King favorably to Emile Zola, just trying to illustrate a point.
That was a great interview. I would ask a mod to slip in to the first post that it does contain spoilers for the movie version of The Mist though.
Last edited by Bethany; 11-27-2007 at 08:23 PM. Reason: Move along here. Just testing stuff
Darn, I didn't see it. Do you think I could find it online anywhere?
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=3872705&page=1
NB: There aren't really any spoilers, although they do skirt around revealing major plot points. I guess it depends upon what you consider a "spoiler." King disbelieves in the concept altogether, so you have to take that into consideration as well, but there's no "this happens to character x," if that's what you're concerned about.
You're welcome.
I've never read the Tom Clancy novel you mentioned, but it's an interesting analogy.
The only Clancy work I'm familiar with is Sum of all Fears, where the Hollywood writers changed the script entirely-and created an absurd plot-line-due to pressure from CAIR and Islamist groups over here.
I did have a friend in high school, originally from Israel, who was a big Clancy fan.
I mentioned a Tom Clancy novel?
recently, Lilja posted a link to an interview (both transcript & video) from MTV...
here is the link
and the video is supposed to be in here
but I cant see the video, because "copyrights restrict us from playing the video outside the US"...
does can someone "grab" the video? i'd like to see the whole interview... :-s
Time interview
King mentions a musical he is doing with John Cougar Mellencamp. It's slated for next June or July.
Excellent! I've heard about this for a while, nice to see it's gonna happen.