Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
May 30 - June 5, 2021 l 3
BY JAY BOBBIN
Stephen King
OF ‘LISEY’S STORY’ ON APPLE TV+
You’re an executive producer of the adaptation of
your novel “Lisey’s Story” a job you’ve performed
before. Why did you want that this time?
“Lisey’s Story” means a lot to me because it’s the one
that I love best. It’s a story about love and marriage and
the creative impulse. And it’s also got a kick-ass villain
in it, which I like a lot ... so my idea is, be all the way in
as much as possible or be all the way out. (My thought
was,) maybe something will come along that I really
love, a passion project, and this was that.
Are you satisfied with the casting of “Lisey’s
Story”?
I love Julianne Moore and Clive Owen in “Lisey’s
Story.” I think that they are fantastic. And there’s also
a guy named Dane DeHaan who plays in the series;
I don’t want to say too much about him, but I love his
performance. Those are some of my favorite people. Of
course, I liked Christopher Walken as Johnny Smith (in
“the Dead Zone,” also based on a King novel). There
are a lot of different people that I really love in some of
the different things.
How did you conceive of “Lisey’s Story”?
I had double pneumonia, and I came very close to “stepping out.” During the convalescence, I
was in the hospital for about three weeks, and when it was clear I was going to get better, my wife
decided that she was going to totally clean out my office and make everything new again for me.
When I came back home, she said to me, “Don’t go in your office. You won’t like it.” That’s
because it wasn’t done yet. And then the first thing I did was to go into my office, and it was totally
empty. I was still feeling very rocky and I was on a lot of different medications, and I thought, “This
is what this room would look like after I die.” And “Lisey’s Story” came from that.
Tony
Bennett
BY JOHN CROOK
Talent shows
Questions:
1) Can you name the red-haired and much-beloved
host whose “Talent Scouts” program gave an early
break to Tony Bennett, Connie Francis and others?
2) Often during one of his shows, “Talent Scouts” host
Arthur Godfrey would croon a slightly off-key song,
accompanying himself on what quaint instrument?
3) Born Belle Silverman, this operatic superstar had
early successes performing on “Ted Mack’s Original
Amateur Hour.” Can you name her?
4) On Sept. 8, 1935, what
unknown crooner scored a
sensation on the “Major Bowes
Amateur Hour” as the lead singer
of a quartet called the Hoboken
Four?
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1) Arthur
Godfrey
2) A ukelele
3) Beverly Sills
4) Frank Sinatra
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