Brian Freeman's New Blog

[Dan Hocker]

I thought I'd post something here for Brian. He just launched a new blog today, which for those of you who follow him on twitter / facebook will probably have noticed. In this blog he will be talking about topics such as writing, editing, reading, and the publishing business. So if you're interested, check it out here.

http://brianjamesfreeman.wordpress.com/

[Brian James Freeman]

Thanks, Dan! I missed this post when I started my own thread...

[Hedda Gabler]

Sorry if this is somewhere, i didn't see anything, but that doesn't mean it isn't right in front of my face.

Whatever happened to the book that Brian was doing, I think with Lilja, where each week they featured different Stephen King books or stories and we could submit a question and we had to put A,B,C or D answers for the reader to choose from regarding those featured stories? I submitted a lot of quiz questions -- all pertaining to Shelley Duvall.

[Brian James Freeman]

Sorry if this is somewhere, i didn't see anything, but that doesn't mean it isn't right in front of my face.

Whatever happened to the book that Brian was doing, I think with Lilja, where each week they featured different Stephen King books or stories and we could submit a question and we had to put A,B,C or D answers for the reader to choose from regarding those featured stories? I submitted a lot of quiz questions -- all pertaining to Shelley Duvall.

Will probably be out around the end of the year! Glenn Chadbourne turned in the last of the artwork in January.

Brian

[Hedda Gabler]

Oh, that is so exciting! Did any of my Shelley questions make it in the book?

Yeah, I didn't think so. DAmn you SHelley Duvall! Damn you all to hell! *shaking fist in the air*

Will probably be out around the end of the year! Glenn Chadbourne turned in the last of the artwork in January.

Brian

[Brian James Freeman]

Oh, that is so exciting! Did any of my Shelley questions make it in the book?

Yeah, I didn't think so. DAmn you SHelley Duvall! Damn you all to hell! *shaking fist in the air*

HA! It is quite possible one of them made it in some form or fashion.

Brian

[Hedda Gabler]

I'm not sure how you would have done that, they were all very disrespectful and rude. I'm sure Shelley is a very lovely person in her day-to-day life. But, I was rooting for Jack to hack her to bits in The Shining. Painfully.

HA! It is quite possible one of them made it in some form or fashion.

Brian

[Brian James Freeman]

I'm not sure how you would have done that, they were all very disrespectful and rude. I'm sure Shelley is a very lovely person in her day-to-day life. But, I was rooting for Jack to hack her to bits in The Shining. Painfully.

There MAY have been some slight editing involved.

Brian

[Hedda Gabler]

Wow. You really are a good writer because that would have taken some talent to clean those up.

There MAY have been some slight editing involved.

Brian

[TerryE]

I'm not sure how you would have done that, they were all very disrespectful and rude. I'm sure Shelley is a very lovely person in her day-to-day life. But, I was rooting for Jack to hack her to bits in The Shining. Painfully.

I didn't understand that casting, either. Wendy in the book is everything Shelley Duvall isn't, especially how she played Wendy in the movie. (But she did make the perfect Olive Oyl.)

I had the same problem with the casting of Tad in Cujo.

Spoiler!

When I read the book, I swore I'd never read another King book if the boy died. When I saw the movie, I was quite okay with that eventuality, that was really disappointed that they changed the ending.

[Hedda Gabler]

Absolutely, she was beautiful as Olive Oyl. No one could have done any better.

But Wendy? Good God. She was so stiff and distracting. There's a part in the movie where she's smoking a cigarette. I think Will Robinson's robot could have smoked that cigarette with more acting chops than she had. And that's while he's flailing his dryer-vent arms around screaming, Danger!Danger!

The line I always throw out about her performance is this: How stiff does someone have to be before we put them in the Smithsonian?

[C.W. LaSart]

She was so whiny too...I wanted him to chop her up to make the whining stop

[Hedda Gabler]

agreed.

[Grant Wootton]

Poor Shelley, poor, poor maligned Shelley

NB- Brian, I apologise for the Duvallisation of what is supposed to be your blog thread. My only excuse is that I appear to be yet another follower of the Tribe of Shelleyite

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[Hedda Gabler]

Look at her! Seriously. Somebody outta put some googly eyes and a big mouth on her.

Oh wait, you did.