Carrie

An English pop opera filtered through Greek tragedy, the show was such a notorious turkey it provided the title to Ken Mandelbaum's survey of theatrical disasters, Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops. Roman Holiday is also a 1931 novel by the author, Upton Sinclair. A 1988 Broadway musical, starring Betty Buckley, Linzi Hateley, and Darlene Love closed after only five performances and 16 previews. In 1999 the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. A much-belated and poorly-received sequel appeared in 1999; it featured another girl with telekinetic powers (who is eventually revealed to have shared a father with Carrie), but the overall plot was painfully similar to the first story. A TV movie remake was released in 2002, but the 1976 version is widely regarded as superior in both technique and fidelity to the source material. The movie was filmed in Rome, on location and at Cinecittą Studios. Amy Irving, William Katt, Betty Buckley, Piper Laurie, Nancy Allen and John Travolta are also featured. The original film was remade for television in the early 1980s.

Brian de Palma directed a film version of Carrie in 1976 with Sissy Spacek as Carrie. In the 1970s, both Peck and Hepburn were approached with the idea of a sequel to Roman Holiday which would have seen Anya and Joe reunite; the idea never came to fruition. Carrie draws strong parallels between the onset of the title character's adolesence, especially her menstruation and sexuality, and her psychic powers. The candid footage of Hepburn that resulted won her the role. The novel also includes fictional news accounts detailing the town's destruction, the aftermath, "interviews" from survivors and transcripts from court proceedings concerning the investigation. After performing a scene from the film, the director called "cut" but the cameraman actually left the camera rolling as the young actress chatted with the director. Carrie later causes her house to implode, resulting in her own death. A now-legendary screen test resulted in Hepburn being cast as Ann.

Then, after burning virtually the entire downtown Chamberlin, returns home to confront her mother, killing her by inducing cardiac arrest. Audrey Hepburn's shriek wasn't acting - Peck had decided to pull a gag he had once seen Red Skelton do, and he didn't warn Hepburn in advance. After causing a massive fire that destroys Ewin High School and trapping almost everyone inside, Carrie gets revenge on Billy and Chris (who had fled). In the film, he puts his arm into the mouth, and when he pulls out his sleeve, his hand is missing, causing Anya/Hepburn to scream before he pops his hand out of the sleeve and laughs. Perceiving everyone to be laughing at her (not everyone was), she finally demonstrates the full effect of her telekinetic powers, wreaking her revenge on her terrified classmates. One of the most famous scenes in the movie is when Gregory Peck puts his hand into the "Mouth of Truth", a stone face in Rome that legend says will bite your hand off if you tell a lie. After drenching Carrie and Tommy in pig's blood, Carrie is finally pushed over the edge. He then shows a picture of her to Bradley, who suddenly recognizes the young woman whom he left sleeping in his apartment...

It's a plan that Chris will soon regret. Bradley first lies and gives details of the alleged interview, until his boss announces him that the princess has suddenly fallen ill and that she has cancelled all interviews. For revenge, she and her boyfriend, Billy, decide to rig the election for prom queen, then hatch a subsequent plan to humiliate her in front of the prom-goers. The next morning, Bradley leaves the sleeping woman alone and arrives late at his office, where his boss asks him if he has conducted the scheduled interview of the princess during the morning. However, Chris Hargenson (the girl who hates Carrie and helped instigate the earlier episode in the showers) is incensed that she is unable to attend prom. He offers her money so that she can take a taxi and return home safely, but Anya Smith, as she introduces herself is so sleepy that she is unable to talk to the taxi driver. Bradley finally decides to take her to his apartment so that she can spend the night in a safe place. With prom fast approaching, Sue sets Carrie up with her boyfriend, Tommy Ross (the class hunk). She ends up falling asleep on a public bench, where Joe Bradley, an expatriate American reporter sees her but does not recognize her.

Meanwhile, Sue Snell one of the girls who had earlier teased Carrie begins to feel remorseful for her participation in the locker room antics, takes pity on her and offers to become her friend. The court doctor gives her an injection in order to calm her down, but she nevertheless secretly leaves her country's embassy in Rome and goes out alone to explore the city. However, Carrie gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers. Carrie tries to keep these powers under control, even though she is continually pressed to the limit. One night, she is very agitated and expresses her tiredness of her official role. Gym teacher Miss Desjardin sees what is going on and immediately wants the other girls barred from attending the upcoming school prom as punishment. She is officially touring several European capitals, and so arrives in Rome, where her visit is widely publicized. But the thought that this could be Carrie's first period never occurs to her classmates; instead of sympathizing with the frightened Carrie, they use it as an opportunity to taunt her, throwing tampons and sanitary napkins at her instead of helping. Princess Ann is a royal princess and heir to the throne of an unnamed country.

Carrie who is terrified has no concept of menstruation; her mother never spoke to her about it, and she has been a social outcast throughout high school. The movie was written by John Dighton and, fronting for Hollywood Blacklist author Dalton Trumbo, Ian McLellan Hunter. (Trumbo's name was finally restored to the film's credits when it was released on DVD in 2003.). She does not fare much better at her school, Thomas Ewin High School; at the beginning of the novel, she has her first period while showering after her physical education class. Roman Holiday is a 1953 romantic comedy film which tells the story of Princess Anya, a young royal who runs away during a state visit to Rome and befriends Joe Bradley, a cynical expatriate American reporter who first just wants an exclusive story about a princess gone AWOL but finds himself falling in love with her. The book uses fictional documents to frame the story of Carrie White, a teenager from Chamberlin, Maine, who has been bullied at home for years by her vindictive Christian fundamentalist mother. Best Writing, Screenplay (Ian McLellan Hunter & Dalton Trumbo). Carrie (1974) was Stephen King's first published novel. Academy Award for Film Editing (Robert Swink).

ISBN 0743470605 (mass market paperback). Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (Franz Planer & Henri Alekan). ISBN 8401498880 (hardcover). Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Hal Pereira & Walter H. Tyler). ISBN 0671039725 (paperback, 2002). BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor - (Gregory Peck). ISBN 0609810901 (paperback, 2001). BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor - (Eddie Albert).

ISBN 0606205942 (prebound, 2001). Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Eddie Albert). ISBN 0671039733 (paperback, 2000). DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures (William Wyler). ISBN 8401499666 (hardcover, 1999). Best Director (William Wyler). ISBN 0816156883 (library binding, 1994, Large Type Edition). BAFTA Award for Best Film from any source.

ISBN 1567800572 (paperback, 1992). Academy Award for Best Picture. ISBN 0385086954 (hardcover, 1990). Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Comedy (Ian McLellan Hunter & John Dighton. ISBN 0606008233 (prebound, 1975). Best Writing, Motion Picture Story (Ian McLellan Hunter & Dalton Trumbo). Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (Edith Head).

New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress (Audrey Hepburn). Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama (Audrey Hepburn). BAFTA Award for Best British Actress (Audrey Hepburn). Academy Award for Best Actress (Audrey Hepburn).

Diane Lante - Lady in waiting. Ugo De Pascale - Embassy staffer. Andrea Esterhazy - Embassy staffer. John Horne - Master of Ceremonies.

Heinz Hindrich - Dr. Bonnachoven. Gorella Gori - Shoe seller. Laura Solari - Secretary. Alfredo Rizzo - Cab driver.

Paola Borboni - Charwoman. Claudio Ermelli - Giovanni, landlord. Paolo Carlini - Mario Delani, hairdresser. Provno.

Tullio Carminati - Gen. Margaret Rawlings - Countess Vereberg. Harcourt Williams - Ambassador. Hartley Power - Mr. Hennessy, editor.

Eddie Albert - Irving Radovich. Audrey Hepburn - Princess Ann ('Anya Smith'). Gregory Peck - Joe Bradley.