"Ensemble cast".
The TWO WORDS that *RUINED* the 1994 television adaption of "Stephen King's The Stand". Not to mention, "It" from a few years earlier.
However, I can't complain about Whoopi Goldberg's participation. That sounds neat.
I'm ambivalent about Marsden, but that's an important role in the production. I'm not sure if I've seen anything with him. Oh, right. The 2006 "Superman" installment with his minor role, I just read on Wikipedia. The 1998 "The Outer Limits" episode "Rite of Passage". That was a pretty good episode I haven't watched in a long time.
I don't remember much about Gary Sinise before the 1994 television adaption of "The Stand" and that doesn't really make him an ensemble actor in my view and I guess I don't really have any argument about his casting for the 1994 version.
The "Randall Flagg" actor portraying that character just flat-out ABSOLUTELY RUINS! that 1994 television adaption. Presumably, McConaughey was the spiritual successor in the Stephen King World with his recent big-screen portrayal of The Dark Man but his portrayal was fairly LAME and I don't think he's a good fit for that character, despite that actor's attempt to create a "Slick" persona. But then again, in The Dark Tower books, Walter o'Dim isn't really that ominous, that I can recall from the one time I've read the first three books. In the movie, perhaps the definition of irony, considering my past views that the screen productions of Stephen King's books are *always* disappointing in the screen-adaption, he's more dangerous with such scenes as "Stop breathing." Nobody's safe.
And finally: I'm not The Boss. They should hire anyone they need to in order to get the entertainment productions on the screen.
As I work more on this note, I think back again to the year 1994 and my conscious memory of that television adaption of The Stand.
I can visualize myself in that apartment I had in Charlotte, North Carolina. My employer, Universal Financial Products (UFP) had just transferred me there from Greenville, South Carolina, to work in a bank in downtown Charlotte to maintain various computerized machines used for processing banking transactions. I can remember The Stand being on television. I can remember talking to my co-workers about it.
But here today in the present, with each passing day, I have a constantly growing sense of certainty those ARE NOT my personal memories.
Rather, SOMEHOW, Thomas Reagan, that super-genius I have theorized of here for most the past 15 years, he SOMEHOW convinced me at some point relatively recently that his experiences were my experiences in the 1990s.
He was living the life of Regular Kerry Burgess, I have theorized, and he somehow used his medical super-powers to overwrite my conscious memory and convince my mind with a fantasy he concocted and cajoled my mind into believing.
https://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/1077779-stand-ensemble-cbs-all-access
Coming Soon
CBS All Access’ The Stand Series Begins to Enlist Its Ensemble Cast
By Kylie Hemmert
ON June 21, 2019
Collider is reporting that the first pieces of the ensemble cast for CBS All Access’ The Stand, based on the iconic book by Stephen King, is currently in negotiations with the streaming service.
James Marsden (Westworld) is in advanced negotiations to play Stu Redman, a Texan who is the first man discovered to be immune to the Captain Trips virus that has ravaged the planet. He eventually becomes a leader in a community known as the Free Zone and is tasked with confronting the evil Randall Flagg. Amber Heard (Aquaman) is in negotiations to play Nadine Cross, a private school teacher and a virgin who believes she has a unique destiny to be by Flagg’s side.
Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost) is in negotiations to play Mother Abagail, who is immune to the superflu and leads the ‘good’ survivors of the plague toward Boulder, Colorado. She also claims to be a prophet of God. Ruby Dee originated the character in the miniseries. Oscar nominee Greg Kinnear (As Good as It Gets) is in negotiations to play Glen Bateman, an arthritis-afflicted professor who joins Stu on his journey to meet Mother Abagail.
Odessa Young (Assassination Nation) is in advanced negotiations to play Frannie Goldsmith, a pregnant woman who leaves her devastated community with a man named Harold Lauder, but ends up falling in love with Stu, much to Harold’s chagrin. Henry Zaga (The New Mutants) will play Nick Andros, a young, deaf-mute grifter who wears an eye patch for most of King’s book.
The 10 episode series from writers Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars, The New Mutants) and Ben Cavell (SEAL Team), reveals that this is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after, a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides — or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abigail — and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.
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From 2/9/1961 ( premiere US TV series "Gunslinger" ) To 1/30/2019 is 21174 days
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1994 television miniseries "The Stand" DVD video:
01:15:50 Disc 1
Mother Abagail: Hello there, East Texas. What kept you?
Stu Redman: I was lost in the corn. Then I heard the guitar. It sounds so sweet.
Mother Abagail: I ain't been able to make a decent F chord in 20 years. But thank you kindly.
Stu Redman: Who are you? Where is this?
Mother Abagail: I'm Abagail Freemantle. And this is Hemingford Home. Stuart, those folks who got you won't leave you to live much longer. You know that, don't you?
Stu Redman: I reckon maybe I do.
Mother Abagail: The beast is loose in the streets of Bethlehem. The rats are in the corn.
http://www.tv.com/news/star-trek-picard-everything-to-know-about-the-patrick-stewart-series-15488981350008500/
tv.com
Everything We Know About the Star Trek Picard Series
By Megan Vick [ Retrieved 30 January 2019 ]
https://www.cbs.com/recommended/news/1009039/stephen-king-s-the-stand-gets-series-order-on-cbs-all-access/
CBS
CBS All Access
Original Series
Stephen King's The Stand Gets Series Order On CBS All Access
The master of horror's best-selling novel will be a 10-episode limited event series, available exclusively to CBS All Access subscribers.
Posted on Jan 30, 2019 02:20pm
One of Stephen King's most beloved creations, the best-selling novel The Stand, has been ordered straight to series as a 10-episode event—and it's coming exclusively to CBS All Access.
The Stand is a haunting apocalyptic vision of a world decimated by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil.
In this world, the fate of mankind rests on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail and a handful of survivors, with their worst nightmares embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the Dark Man.
"I'm excited and so very pleased that The Stand is going to have a new life on this exciting new platform," said Stephen King. "The people involved are men and women who know exactly what they're doing; the scripts are dynamite. The result bids to be something memorable and thrilling. I believe it will take viewers away to a world they hope will never happen."
"I read The Stand under my bed when I was 12 and my Baptist parents burned it in our fireplace upon discovery. Incensed, I stole my Dad's Fed-Ex account number and mailed King a letter professing my love for his work. Several weeks later, I came home to find a box had arrived from Maine and inside were several books, each inscribed with a beautiful note from God himself, who encouraged me in my writing and thanked me for being a fan," said Writer and Executive Producer Josh Boone.
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"My parents, genuinely moved by King's kindness and generosity, lifted the ban on his books that very day. I wrote King a cameo as himself in my first film and have been working to bring The Stand to the screen for five years. I've found incredible partners in CBS All Access and [Writer and Executive Producer] Ben Cavell. Together with Stephen King, Owen King, my longtime producing partners Knate Lee and Jill Killington, we plan to bring you the ultimate version of King's masterwork."
"With over 400 million books sold around the world, Stephen King is one of our greatest living authors and The Stand is widely considered the crown jewel of his work. Millions of fans have been waiting for a modern interpretation that delivers on its depth, scope, and ambition," said Julie McNamara, Executive Vice President of Original Content for CBS All Access. "We are thrilled to be working with Stephen, Josh, Ben and a dedicated team working passionately to bring this brilliant material to life."
The Stand will be produced by CBS Television Studios. Josh Boone and Ben Cavell will write and executive produce, with Boone also directing. Roy Lee, Jimmy Miller, and Richard P. Rubinstein will also serve as executive producers with Will Weiske and Miri Yoon as co-executive producers and Owen King as producer.
Stay tuned to CBS.com for more information on The Stand in the months to come, including casting announcements and premiere date.
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1994 television miniseries "The Stand" DVD video:
Charlie Campion: There was a man with us some of the time. He was a dark man. He - I was looking through the rear-view mirror and I'd see him just sitting there grinning at me. I thought I could outrun him. [ laughing briefly ] You can't outrun the dark man.
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From 4/2/1968 ( premiere US film "2001: A Space Odyssey" ) To 5/13/1992 is 8807 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/13/1989 ( premiere US film "Driving Miss Daisy" ) is 8807 days
Other posts by me on this topic includes:
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-13/news/mn-1687_1_rescue-attempt
Los Angeles Times
Crew Plans First-Ever 3-Man Spacewalk : Shuttle: Astronauts will leave Endeavour, seek to grab errant satellite with gloved hands in third daring rescue attempt.
May 13, 1992 ROBERT W. STEWART TIMES STAFF WRITER
HOUSTON — After two days of failure, the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour plans a daring third attempt today to rescue a marooned communications satellite by having astronauts literally grab the huge, spinning spacecraft with their gloved hands.
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From 5/4/2005 ( the incident at the police department City of Kent Washington State after my voluntary approach to report material criminal activity directed against my person and I am secretly drugged against my consent ) To 11/28/2018 is 4956 days
4956 = 2478 + 2478
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) to 5/16/1992 ( the landing of the first flight of the United States space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 9692 days
From 5/16/1992 ( the landing of the first flight of the United States space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) to 11/28/2018 is is 9692 days
Other post by me: https://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/11/exposition.html
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Most of quarantine is enjoyable, then there is the spin chair. But it works - the first day I did 40 sec, and today was 10 min. I am hopefully more ready to fly and adapt to zero gravity!
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The Stand - complete edition
Stephen King
(from internet transcript)
Chapter 22
When Creighton came in on June 24, he found Starkey looking at the monitors, his hands behind his back. He could see the old man’s West Point ring glittering on his right hand, and he felt a wave of pity for him. Starkey had been cruising on pills for ten days, and he was close to the inevitable crash. But, Creighton thought, if his suspicion about the phone call was correct, the real crash had already occurred.
“Len,” Starkey said, as if surprised. “Good of you to come in.”
“De nada,” Creighton said with a slight smile.
“You know who that was on the phone.”
“It was really him, then?”
“The President, yes. I’ve been relieved. The dirty alderman relieved me, Len. Of course I knew it was coming. But it still hurts. Hurts like hell. It hurts coming from that grinning, gladhanding sack of shit.”
Len Creighton nodded.
“Well,” Starkey said, passing a hand over his face. “It’s done. Can’t be undone. You’re in charge now. He wants you in Washington as soon as you can get there. He’ll have you on the carpet and he’ll chew your ass to a bloody rag, but you just stand there and yessir him and take it. We’ve salvaged what we can. It’s enough. I’m convinced it’s enough.”
“If so, this country ought to get down on its knees to you.”
“The throttle burned my hand, but I… I held it as long as I could, Len. I held it.” He spoke with quiet vehemence, but his eyes wandered back to the monitor, and for a moment his mouth quivered infirmly. “I couldn’t have done it without you.”
“Well… we go back a country mile or three, Billy, don’t we?”
“You can say that again, soldier.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: year 2006
Something keeps tugging at me about "screendoors" but I can't quite grasp it yet.
So they blanked my memory.....I started trying to build my life effectivly over again, finding a woman I loved and could go home to every day, and the kind of work that I thought would have a global impact on improving peace.
Ah, one night, Randy Cole and I, and another guy named Eddie I think, were running through a neighbors backyard. One of our friends had a trampoline and we would go over and jump on it sometimes. This particular night we were going through that yard and we heard a screen door slam. Eddy and Randy ran one way, I ran the other way. As it turned out, I ran the wrong way. This huge dude hopped down off some kind of embankment wall brandishing a big knife and asking why I was in their yard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_Cross
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/01/i-dreamed-of-red-badge-last-night.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess at 9:27 PM
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Tom Clancy
Red Storm Rising
40 – The Killing Ground
Again the Vampire call came in, and again Toland cringed. Twenty incoming missiles were plotted. The formation activated jammers and SAM systems, with a pair of Aegis cruisers on the threat axis. In seconds they were launching missiles, and the other SM2-equipped SAM ships added their own missiles to the "basket," allowing their birds to be guided by the Aegis computer systems. The twenty incoming missiles had ninety SM2s targeted on them. Only three got through the SAM cloud, and only one of them headed for a carrier. America's three point-defense guns tracked the AS-6 and destroyed it a thousand feet from the ship. The other two missiles both found the cruiser Wainwright and exploded her four miles from Independence.
"Damn." Jacobsen's face took a hard set. "I thought we had that one beat.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 9:27 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Thursday 15 January 2015
[ excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess January 15, 2015 ]
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/01/i-dreamed-of-red-badge-last-night.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess at 9:27 PM
Thursday, January 15, 2015
I dreamed of a "Red Badge" last night.
I had forgotten it and all the other sleeping dreams from the last time I was sleeping until just now before making this post. I don't recall the other many sleeping dreams I woke from but I do remember one. I was wearing a US Marine Corps uniform and that is very unusual for a sleeping dream. I have written before over several years about seeing myself wearing a US Marine Corps uniform but as best I can now recall here sitting here at my desk there have been only two sleeping dreams featuring me wearing a US Marine Corps uniform. And one of those occurrences would have been this past day.
Those of you following along at home remember what I wrote and what I still believe - that I have no actual direct memory - no practical memory in my conscious mind of any service in the United States Marine Corps.
Everything I write here that is not consistent with my factual memory is just the thoughts in my mind.
The dream this past day is something that I can now recall only of an actor I have seen before in film and television. He is that guy who recruits "Cooper Hawkes" in that "Space: Above and Beyond" episode I have referenced here many times.
The sleeping dream I had the past day doesn't seem connected to anything I have seen him in before on television or movie.
There is something that I can almost remember about that dream but just cannot remember.
Well, the operative detail is that I could not wear my US Marine Corps uniform because of what he did. I had to be somewhere. A duty assignment or something that is so damned frustratingly elusive in my mind.
He had punched me in the chest I vaguely recall. The impact of his fist wasn't that hard but he hit an object adorning my olive-colored uniformed shirt and there was an area obviously soaked with blood and I wasn't going to be able to go anywhere looking that way.
I write about it now only because of how that was one time so infrequent seeing myself wearing a US Marine Corps uniform in a sleeping dream. Now I just remember a possible third time. That time I saw myself wearing my US Navy Cross and working in an office building chasing down a person stealing classified documents. Now I just recall another time I wrote about wearing that same medal in an elevator and that person saying he was surprised "they" let me wear it and me saying in response I was proud of my service in Bosnia.
[ excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess January 15, 2015 ]
The Stand - complete edition
Stephen King
(from internet transcript)
Chapter 13
Stu interrupted him with a series of harsh, dry coughs. He bent over with the force of them.
The effect on Deitz was galvanic. He was up off the bed like a shot and across to the airlock with his feet seeming not to touch the floor at all. Then he was fumbling in his pocket for the square key and ramming it into the slot.
“Don’t bother,” Stu said mildly. “I was faking.”
Deitz turned to him slowly. Now his face had changed. His lips were thinned with anger, his eyes staring. “You were what?”
“Faking,” Stu said. His smile broadened.
Deitz took two uncertain steps toward him. His fists closed, opened, then closed again. “But why? Why would you want to do something like that?”
“Sorry,” Stu said, smiling. “That’s classified.”
“You shit sonofabitch,” Deitz said with soft wonder.
“Go on. Go on out and tell them they can do their tests.”
He slept better that night than he had since they had brought him here. And he had an extremely vivid dream. He had always dreamed a great deal—his wife had complained about him thrashing and muttering in his sleep—but he had never had a dream like this.
He was standing on a country road, at the precise place where the black hottop gave up to bone-white dirt. A blazing summer sun shone down. On both sides of the road there was green corn, and it stretched away endlessly. There was a sign, but it was dusty and he couldn’t read it. There was the sound of crows, harsh and far away. Closer by, someone was playing an acoustic guitar, fingerpicking it. Vic Palfrey had been a picker, and it was a fine sound.
This is where I ought to get to, Stu thought dimly. Yeah, this is the place, all right.
What was that tune? “Beautiful Zion”? “The Fields of My Father’s Home”? “Sweet Bye and Bye”? Some hymn he remembered from his childhood, something he associated with full immersion and picnic lunches. But he couldn’t remember which one.
Then the music stopped. A cloud came over the sun. He began to be afraid. He began to feel that there was something terrible, something worse than plague, fire, or earthquake. Something was in the corn and it was watching him. Something dark was in the corn.
He looked, and saw two burning red eyes far back in the shadows, far back in the corn. Those eyes filled him with the paralyzed, hopeless horror that the hen feels for the weasel. Him, he thought. The man with no face. Oh dear God. Oh dear God no.
Then the dream was fading and he awoke with feelings of disquiet, dislocation, and relief. He went to the bathroom and then to his window. He looked out at the moon. He went back to bed but it was an hour before he got back to sleep. All that corn, he thought sleepily. Must have been Iowa or Nebraska, maybe northern Kansas. But he had never been in any of those places in his life.
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