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From: uggworek@sunybcs.UUCP (Donald Gworek)
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Subject: Cat's Eye -- obscure and missing references.
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Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 15:48:31 EST
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I'm not a HUGE Stephen King fan, but I did enjoy spotting references
to previous (and future) films. 

I caught the Creepshow reference (Upson Pratt's jukebox).  But I missed
The Children Of The Corn, Firestarter, The Shining, and Carrie references.
Are they in the film?  Is the speeding ground-level monster's point-of-
view at the start of the third segment, the reference to The Shining?

Also, these two obscure elements in Cat's Eye have me puzzled:

--> 1939.  Is this Stephen King's birth year?  This number appears in
    two signs: "St Stephen's School For Exceptional Children -- Founded
    February 1939", and "Animal Shelter -- Founded 1939".  What's with
    1939?

--> "The girl, the gold watch, and everything."  Did Robert Hays star in
    that TV movie?  Is that screenplay (mind you, the concept of a watch
    doing time-slicing is as old as Twilight Zone and Voyage To The Bottom
    Of The Sea) ghostwritten by Stephen King?

-- Don Gworek