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    adapted into two films in 2008 and 2010 and a HBO TV series that ran between 1998 and 2004. Sarah Jessica Parker starred in the lead role of Carrie Bradshaw a lifestyle columnist that was very active in the New York City social scene. In 2005, the CBS reality TV show Wickedly Perfect appointed the vivacious Bushnell as one of its judges. In 2007, Sirius Satellite Radio engaged Candace as the host of a weekly talk show known as ‘Sex, Success, and Sensibility. With the merger of XM Satellite Radio with Sirius, she was asked to take a 50% pay cut which she rejected, resulting in the cancellation of the show. She has won many accolades over her long career including a 2009 Albert Einstein Spirit of Achievement Award and a Matrix Award for books in 2006. In 2009, she got involved in writing of comedic series known as the Broadroom. The web series starred Jennie Garth was about the workplace issues those women over 40 have to deal with. The series was a collaboration between Candace and Meredith Corporation magazine publishing division. She had more success with her 2005 novel Lipstick Jungle that was later adapted for the small screen airing on NBC IN 2008. The series that lasted for only 20 episodes starred Brooke Shields. Her novels about the lead character Carrie’s high school years had better success and were even made into a TV series The Carrie Diaries that aired between 2013 to 2014. From her biggest success Sex and the City right through to the following eight novels,…

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    Carrie Movie Comparison

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    In 2013, Kimberley Pierce directed a remake of Brian De Palma’s horror film classic Carrie. The arrangement stays the same, but by using a little modernization, additional character development, and new scenes here and there, Peirce essentially reinvents the same familiarity while making the film her own. Pierce jettisons the focus off of Carrie’s tumultuous relationship with her mother and puts a microscope on Carrie’s desire to fit in. While Brian De Palma’s version focuses on the sexual…

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    using the ‘male gaze’ and punishing women for any kind of sexuality. Brian de Palma’s 1976 film adaption of Stephen King’s novel Carrie is no different. Although marketed to young women, Carrie is fraught with female objectification and fetishization with an overall lack of progressive female characters. It would seem having a female protagonist as…

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    Director Kimberly Peirce reimagines the classic story of Carrie, a highschool teenage girl who is tormented by the entire senior class. Given the excellenct casting of Carrie as well as her mother Margret, this movie delievers effects which the original wasn't able to support in it's time. Chloe Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass) portrays the role of Carrie White, giving us a satisying performance which by the time the movie is over, your happy that little vampire girl from 'Let me In' ended up landing the…

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    Women In Horror Films

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    dichotomy of the virgin vs. sex kitten, innocent vs. deviant, pure vs. impure female image and the religious undertones that drive this binary. This film does, however, stray from what feminist theorists have called the “male antagonist,” as Carrie acts as both the antagonist and protagonist in this film. On the contrary, Carrie does fit the virgin profile while other females in the film fit the sex kitten profile. In order to better understand the reflective theory in the context of this film,…

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    Stephen King Carrie

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    Carrie is a book by Stephen King and the book was banned because it was a violent, and had a sexual themes in parts of the book. Carrie is a just teenage girl and is trying to get by in school. She has these telekinetic powers and she barely found out about it. She does not know how to control her powers. There was an incident when she was little, she cause a rain storm to occur when it was sunny. The sad part about her life is that she has this psychopath mother who hurts and abuse Carrie…

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    Stephen King Sacrifice

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    Stephen King, in the novel, Carrie, illustrates the character, Margaret White, and leads that character to her destruction to suggest that mothers who are abusive, insane and unloving will lead to their destruction. Margaret White is the biological mother of Carrie and is the main villain of the novel. She is the major reason why kids in school treats Carrie as a social outcast. Margaret is a fundamental christian who twists the meaning of the words in the bible to claim that almost everything…

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    Carrie Bickmore

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    Personal life and childhood Carrie Bickmore was born 3d of December 1980 in Adelaide, Australia. Carrie was the only child of loving and loyal parents Brian L. Bickmore and Jennie Bickmore-brand. In her early years Carrie and her family had moved to Perth. She had attended an Anglican girl’s school and studied journalism at Curtin University of technology and graduated in 2000. In 2005 Carrie had married Greg Lange and gave birth to Oliver in 2007. Greg had died in 2010 from brain cancer. After…

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    of the lavish stores, hotels, and houses lead Carrie to fall…

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    Steelers quarterback, Terry Bradshaw. Bradshaw was the most “prolific”(Fox) quarterbacks in NFL history. Considered to be the most Valuable player in his time rushed “444 times for 2,257 yards and scoring over 32 touchdowns” (news RSS) single handedly in his first year, he was “also named all-pro and all-afc in 1978” (News RSS). Terry bradshaw has four super bowls that he has won during his career and he has passed over “27,989 yards”(HOF Terry bradshaw ) total in his career. Terry Bradshaw has…

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