Golden Years?

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Kerr

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I haven't read King in some time and this one, made into a series and playing today in sequence on the Chiller channel, takes me back to the old King, the elderly couple who play a lead role so quaint and beautifully drawn, and the mad scientist so insane and aggressive and evil. If you catch it maybe we could have a discussion on the pros and cons.
 

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I don't remember it too well apart from the fact that it was drawn out -far- too long. Good idea, but stretched beyond its limit.
 

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I love this idea, unfortunately we are a bunny ear household :( I don't even know what the Chiller Channel is…I had to google it. LOL!
I miss out on all the good stuff!
If we had time to rent dvds I might be able to participate. But I am also content to just lurk on the thread and read everyone else's chattering :)
(I only just finished Boston's extra credit homework to watch Chinatown...something I have been avoiding meaning to do for years!)
 

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Heh. I went to high school with Keith Szarabajka, the male lead. A friend of a friend kinda thing. Google him, he's one of those great unsung character actors you've seen somewhere.

I watched the series when it came out, thought it was one of the better King-based shows ( although I never read the original.)
 

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Cool Horace. I forgot to get back to this. As Willie says, and all of King's stories as far as I'm concerned are too long, but they seem well suited to doing as a series. This played all afternoon so I disappeared as I got caught up. The premise was that the mad scientist lost some kind of gamma rays from the thing he was working on with mice that made them grow younger. Keith Szarabajka (thanks for the name) is an elderly janitor that gets hit. The story then moves on with a good part of it him growing younger while his sweetheart wife watches. Very touching, and there were only 2 characters that came off comical. I appreciated that. I think they've done King a great injustice over the years making so many of his story into comedies. Watching, I saw King's passionate side again, the part we saw in Green Mile. Your friend Keith did a wonderful job on his part Horace.
 
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Heh. I went to high school with Keith Szarabajka, the male lead. A friend of a friend kinda thing. Google him, he's one of those great unsung character actors you've seen somewhere.

I watched the series when it came out, thought it was one of the better King-based shows ( although I never read the original.)

There is no original. It was written for the series.
 

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Willie I'm getting into that ad of yours for The Watchers. The green is catchy, but the red's the one holding my attention. Maybe the sty I've been getting since last night. Makes me want to read the book though.
 
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