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TV Weekend; A Plague and Its Effects - The New York Times
May 06 1994
Stephen King, master of supernatural shtick and Armageddon horrors, is recklessly flirting with terminal bloat. After an extraordinary string of best sellers and assorted movies based on his stories, the writer is obviously a power broker. Whatever Stephen wants, Stephen gets. This time around, with his own script, he gets "Stephen King's 'The Stand,' " a television production on ABC that over four nights, beginning on Sunday and skipping Tuesday, runs for eight hours. Well, O.K., six and a half minus commercials.
Taking a cue from Legionnaire's disease, Mr. King first wrote "The Stand," a story about a planet-destroying super flu, in the mid-1970's. Later, charging that the publisher "arbitrarily cut" his manuscript, he did an unabridged edition, adding about 500 pages. That was published in 1988 when, of course, the most prominent of what Mr. King calls "disease vectors" had become AIDS. It now lurks ominously in the interstices of this television mini-series.
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