Critical Essay by John Brosnahan
A master of psychic terror returns with [Firestarter], yet another study of strange phenomena guaranteed to enthrall his audience. Two college students sign up as pai...
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Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews
[Firestarter is an] improvement over The Dead Zone, with King returning to his most tried-and-true blueprint. As in The Shining, the psi-carrier is a child, an eight-...
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Critical Essay by Paul Stuewe
[Firestarter is another] smasheroo from a writer whose books haunt bestseller lists as well as impressionable imaginations. This is your advanced post-Watergate cynical ...
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Background InfoBorn on 22 February 1975,
Drew
Barrymore
was destined to become an actress from the outset. Her grandfather
John
Barrymore
had been one of the early matinee idols, while her grea...
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Frank Capra Jr., a producer who helped build a major television and movie studio and whose father directed the Christmas classic "It's A Wonderful Life," has died. He was 73.Capra Jr. died Wednesda...
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It has been almost two months since Norman Mailer died. "Before that he lived a big, loud life, which he spent asking questions, accumulating bruises and setting all kinds of people’s hair on...
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Critical Essay by John Brosnahan
UKTV Profiles: DrewBarrymore
