![]() ![]() King has admitted to a similar background. ![]() Thad grows up an outsider with a repressed hostility he can let out only through writing. The Dark Half is arguably King’s most personal work. When Beaumont drops his alter ego to take the high road, Stark - embodied by Hutton in evil-twin disguise - wages a savage war for control. It’s a story about Maine teacher Thad Beaumont (Timothy Hutton), a serious writer who boosts his earnings - like King, he has a wife and kids - by writing vicious crime thrillers under the pseudonym of George Stark. Now playing near you is the film version of his probing 1989 novel The Dark Half. In May, ABC will telecast a miniseries of his chilling Tommyknockers. Bookstores are crammed with his latest hardcover bestseller, Dolores Claiborne, and Gerald’s Game is due soon in paperback. The former teacher from Maine, often dissed as a human word processor, has spewed out thirty-two books since his first, Carrie, hit pay dirt in 1974. Stephen King is a one-man horror industry. ![]()
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