City Slickers

A sequel was released years later, City Slickers 2: The Legend of Curly's Gold with Jon Lovitz taking the place of Kirby, but it wasn't received as well as the original. 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. For all of them, but especially Mitch, it's family. A 1988 Broadway musical, starring Betty Buckley, Linzi Hateley, and Darlene Love closed after only five performances and 16 previews. Crystal, Kirby, and Stern's characters lead the herd back successfully to the Colorado ranch, and Crystal shares the last thing Curly taught him: what really matters in life is just one thing, and it's different for everybody. 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. Curly dies soon after they return to camp, and it's left to the people who signed up for this trip to finish the drive because the cook has a broken leg and the trail boss' assistants ran off drunk. Amy Irving, William Katt, Betty Buckley, Piper Laurie, Nancy Allen and John Travolta are also featured.

Curly and Mitch eventually bond when they go off to round up strays, and Mitch even asists in giving birth to a calf he names Norman. Brian de Palma directed a film version of Carrie in 1976 with Sissy Spacek as Carrie. The three men arrive at the cattle drive with other visitors and meet their trail boss, Curly (played by Palance). Carrie draws strong parallels between the onset of the title character's adolesence, especially her menstruation and sexuality, and her psychic powers. Kirby's character, newly married to a woman with supermodel looks, faces the pressure of being a father. 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. Then Stern's character, the manager of a grocery store owned by his father-in-law, is shocked by one of the checkout girls who he had an affair with, much to the chagrin of his wife who threatens to divorce him. Carrie later causes her house to implode, resulting in her own death.

Crystal's character, Mitch Robbins, feels especially depressed about his job and family. At a party, his lifelong friends (Kirby and Stern) show him a brochure for a Southwestern cattle drive that they've signed up to go on for two weeks. Then, after burning virtually the entire downtown Chamberlin, returns home to confront her mother, killing her by inducing cardiac arrest. Crystal, Kirby, and Stern are three thirty- or forty-something men each going through their own mid-life crisis. 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). City Slicker is also a derrogatory term for a city dweller. 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. Palance won the year's Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for this film. After drenching Carrie and Tommy in pig's blood, Carrie is finally pushed over the edge.

City Slickers is a 1991 movie comedy starring Billy Crystal, Bruno Kirby, Daniel Stern, Helen Slater, and Jack Palance. It's a plan that Chris will soon regret. 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. 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. With prom fast approaching, Sue sets Carrie up with her boyfriend, Tommy Ross (the class hunk).

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. 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. Gym teacher Miss Desjardin sees what is going on and immediately wants the other girls barred from attending the upcoming school prom as punishment. 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.

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).