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...seem to be taking the test. You should also participate a fair amount in sections, so your classmates and teachers get to know you on a first-name basis. Good class participation is important, as it can be beneficial for both your grade and your reputation as a non-creepshow. Plus it can be really embarrassing if your entire section doesn’t even know you. One time I walked into my section and my TF asked me if I was lost. It was six weeks into the semester...

Author: By Eric A. Kester | Title: Jeepers Creepers | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

Sometimes its air of doomy portent is stifling. But equally often it turns into a kind of Creepshow for grownups, teasing the mind with its enigmas, bedazzling the eye with its imagery. Finally, like its villain, it draws one into a very oddly woven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Stressed Up, No Place to Go | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

Undeniably, the author of this emotional and penetrating story is also the author of Creepshow. But King is aware of what he's done with his skill, of how he's occasionally bastardized it. As the 12-year-old narrator and his three friends approach the dead body, they begin to get scared: "We all began to nod. We knew about the night shift. I would have laughed then, though, if you had told me that one day not too many years from then I'd parlay all those childhood fears and night-sweats into about a million dollars...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Writing from the Gut | 11/25/1986 | See Source »

BORN. To Adrienne Barbeau, 38, actress who was Maude's tart-tongued daughter on TV for six years and is now a horror-movie queen (Creepshow), and John Carpenter, 36, fright-full film director (Christine) who has cast her in leading roles in his thriller-chillers The Fog and Escape from New York: their first child, a boy; in Los Angeles. Name: John Cody. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 21, 1984 | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

...just finished shooting in Wilmington, N.C., for May release, and Children of the Corn, based on a King short story, is also scheduled to open next spring. Meanwhile, the busy author is adapting his 1978 novel The Stand for Director George Romero, and has provided five original stories for Creepshow II, a sequel to the horror omnibus he wrote (and co-starred in) two years ago. Indeed, Hollywood seems ready to snap up virtually anything King sets to paper short of his grocery list-and there is no guarantee some enterprising director will not put that on celluloid some dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Giving Hollywood the Chills | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

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