Sarah "Stillson": Stephen King Agrees With Me (!?!)
As regular readers of APOV well know, I've come to nickname Sarah Palin as Sarah "Stillson", based on the Greg Stillson character in the Dead Zone (movie and book, by Stephen King).
Well, in an interview published today in Salon, Stephen King says the following (emphasis added):
Looks like I was not off the grid at all on this one - as demonstrated by the author himself!
;-)
Well, in an interview published today in Salon, Stephen King says the following (emphasis added):
Q: Questions of politics are never very far away in "The Stand." Once the plague has come and gone, society has to be reformed. Do you think of it as a political novel, in any sense?Wow.
A: I did see it that way. I've always been a political novelist, and those things have always interested me. "Firestarter" is a political novel. "The Dead Zone" is a political novel. There's that scene in "The Dead Zone" where Johnny Smith sees Greg Stillson in the future starting a nuclear war. Around my house we kinda laugh when Sarah Palin comes on TV, and we say, "That's Greg Stillson as a woman."
Looks like I was not off the grid at all on this one - as demonstrated by the author himself!
;-)
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