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. It won Academy Awards for Best Music, Original Dramatic Score and Best Music, Song (Marvin Hamlisch, Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman for "The Way We Were"), and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Barbra Streisand), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design. A 1988 Broadway musical, starring Betty Buckley, Linzi Hateley, and Darlene Love closed after only five performances and 16 previews. Tagline: Streisand and Redford together!!. 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. Her simplicity in her political belief and her strong love for Hubbel come to too big a clash, and she gives up Hubbel. Amy Irving, William Katt, Betty Buckley, Piper Laurie, Nancy Allen and John Travolta are also featured. Katie's political views and her marriage cannot co-exist, so she chooses to dedicate her life to her causes, of disarmnament and world peace.

Brian de Palma directed a film version of Carrie in 1976 with Sissy Spacek as Carrie. She gets pregnant with a girl, and finally they decide to part. Carrie draws strong parallels between the onset of the title character's adolesence, especially her menstruation and sexuality, and her psychic powers. Hubbel becomes a successful playwright, but Katie's political views remain buried. 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. Despite her frustration, they move to California anyway. Carrie later causes her house to implode, resulting in her own death. She found it too compromising of him, to waste his talent.

Then, after burning virtually the entire downtown Chamberlin, returns home to confront her mother, killing her by inducing cardiac arrest. Katie also finds Hubbel's writing brilliant, but is displeased when Hubbel seeks a job as a script-writer in Hollywood. 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). She finds them insensitive and ignorant, treating politics as a joke. 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. Katie is intolerable of the political jokes Hubbel's good friends makes. After drenching Carrie and Tommy in pig's blood, Carrie is finally pushed over the edge. However, this is despite their political differences.

It's a plan that Chris will soon regret. They fall in love and gets married. 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. Years go by and they meet again, now she works in the radio station, and he is a WASP, having fought in World War II. 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 admires her conviction and her determination, as well as her belief in the ability to change and influence those around her. With prom fast approaching, Sue sets Carrie up with her boyfriend, Tommy Ross (the class hunk). She is drawn to him because of his writing, which she finds fascinating and captivating.

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. It tells the story of a young idealistic girl, Katie (Barbara Streisand), who falls in love with young Hubbel (Robert Redford). They have immense differences, with her, a Marxist, an anti-war girl, and he, a laid-back trouble-maker. 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. The movie was written by Arthur Laurents and David Rayfiel (uncredited) and directed by Sydney Pollack. Gym teacher Miss Desjardin sees what is going on and immediately wants the other girls barred from attending the upcoming school prom as punishment. It stars Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles, Patrick O'Neal and Viveca Lindfors. 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. The Way We Were is a 1973 film which tells the story of a Jewish woman who marries a WASP following World War II, at the height of McCarthyism; their political differences eventually drive them apart.

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. 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. 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. Carrie (1974) was Stephen King's first published novel.

ISBN 0743470605 (mass market paperback). ISBN 8401498880 (hardcover). ISBN 0671039725 (paperback, 2002). ISBN 0609810901 (paperback, 2001).

ISBN 0606205942 (prebound, 2001). ISBN 0671039733 (paperback, 2000). ISBN 8401499666 (hardcover, 1999). ISBN 0816156883 (library binding, 1994, Large Type Edition).

ISBN 1567800572 (paperback, 1992). ISBN 0385086954 (hardcover, 1990). ISBN 0606008233 (prebound, 1975).