Had this exact argument about Kiss with a classmate in grade school. Desmond Child showed up in those credits quite a lot if I remember correctly. (I was right, hehe)

That was kind of the point. Charlie didn't know how to make the script interesting so in the end he took everyone's bad advice, went hollywood and made a romantic action thriller out of it.
Very meta, but yeah, admittedly more interesting to think about than to actually watch.

I really enjoyed The Stand. So yeah, not all of his characters are like that (though the theme is present in The Stand with the Harold character). I suppose it's difficult not returning to the same themes when you write four novels a year. I just find it tiresome enough to not really want to dig into his newer…

I get that. But it makes me think King believes a person is delivered out of puberty with his or her personality fully intact. His characters don't seem to grow or change from there and are driven by the events of their puberty.
This isn't really my experience. Each stage of my life has provided the wisdom to…

Edward Burns playing an east coast Irish tough guy? That's refreshing

Have you ever noticed Stephen King fixates on that early pubescent period a lot?

I watched it again recently and it is still a laugh riot. It's both timeless and totally dripping with delicious over the top 80's-ness all at the same time. I can't tell if it was meant to parody the styles at the time it was made, but it certainly plays as a parody of them now. Just look at the Stone's house!
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Love love love this album, thanks so much for getting the word out. There are a couple clunkers but the rest is gold. Listening to the song "Walk" breaks my heart every time and should be the anthem of those fighting addictions. And I can't listen to the first part of "St. Andrew's Fall" without imagining myself…