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Stand by Me is a 1986 American coming-of-age drama film [5] directed by Rob Reiner. Based on Stephen King's 1982 novella The Body, the film is set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Oregon in 1959. Stand by Me stars Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell as four boys who set out on a journey to find the dead body of a ...
The Body was published in King's 1982 collection Different Seasons and later adapted into the 1986 film Stand by Me. [1] The story takes place during the summer of 1960 in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. After a boy disappears and is presumed dead, twelve-year-old Gordie LaChance and his three friends set out to find his body along ...
"Stand by Me" is a song originally performed in 1961 by American singer-songwriter Ben E. King and written by him, along with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who together used the pseudonym Elmo Glick. According to King, the title is derived from, and was inspired by, a spiritual written by Sam Cooke and J. W. Alexander called "Stand by Me Father", recorded by the Soul Stirrers
“I read the monologue and it hit me as powerful and meaningful," she said. "It also felt like, wow, what a gift as an actor to get to deliver something that feels so cathartic and truthful ...
In the midst of tribulation, stand by me. When the hosts of hell assail, and my strength begins to fail, thou who never lost a battle, stand by me. In the midst of faults and failures, stand by me. In the midst of faults and failures, stand by me. When I do the best I can, and my friends misunderstand, thou who knowest all about me, stand by me ...
I Am the Greatest" was also released as a single with Clay singing his cover of the Ben E. King song "Stand by Me", which resurfaced on CD in 1991 as part of the compilation Golden Throats 2: More Celebrity Rock Oddities. [7] [8] After later controversy, [clarification needed] Columbia pulled the LP and single from stores. [9]
Holloway in 1974. Stanley Augustus Holloway OBE (1 October 1890 – 30 January 1982) was an English actor, comedian, singer and monologist.He was famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady.
More Monologues and Songs (2002) 1965 Summer Green - Winter White By Cyril Ornadel and Norman Newell: 1965 Hey, Look Me Over By Carolyn Leigh and Cy Coleman: 1965 It Were All Green Hills By Stanley Holloway 1974 My Word, You Do Look Queer Previously recorded by Holloway in 1958 1975 Marksman Sam By Marriott Edgar and Stanley Holloway.