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From: rsu@cbscc.UUCP (Rick Urban)
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Subject: Stephen King Directs!
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Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 14:15:44 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 26 14:15:44 1985
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	NEWSFLASH! (via USA TODAY for April 26th, 1985)

	Stephen King will direct his first motion picture for Dino DeLaurentiis
starting in July at Dino's studio in North Carolina. The name of the film is
"Maximum Overdrive", and is based on King's short story "Trucks", another
story from the NIGHT SHIFT collection. I don't know about the rest of you, but
it seems unwise to me for King to be using this property, which is so 
thematically similar to "Christine". I hope he pulls it off.

	In other news, THINNER just became a #1 bestseller in the NY Times
Book Review. Anyone want to lay bets as to how soon it gets snapped up by 
Hollywood (even though it appears to present difficulties as far as weight
for the lead -- maybe DeNiro could play Billy Halleck)?

							Rick Urban
							AT&T Network Systems
							Columbus, Ohio
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