Posted on 05/30/2019 8:19:33 AM PDT by SMGFan
THE furry star of the 2019 remake of Pet Sematary has died just weeks after the movie was released.
Leo the Cat captured audiences' hearts in the film adaptation of Stephen King's 1983 novel.
His mysterious death was confirmed by animal trainer Kirk Jarrett on Leo's Instagram account, after he adopted the cat shortly after filming.
He wrote: "It is with great sadness that we tell you that Leo has passed away.
"He will be forever missed by his human and fur family. May his star always shine bright."
The Maine Coon cat was one of four felines used to play Church in the horror flick.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Wow!
May have been where King got the general idea.
That was th he old ones? Thought I had seen them all.
Sometimes you have to put politics aside, like all the lefties eating at Chick Fill A in Manhattan do. A LOT of them.
I hate King’s politics but need a good read.
I shall check it out.
As it is, I dont shop at Target, cancelled Netflix and wont buy Bud and Gillette anymorw.
But it all goes up in flames because I use Amazon like nobody’s business :(
And I am sure if the movie made me look for pop at the window, the book will make me buy a curtain and steel bars! Lol
Don’t worry. Sometimes they come back ...
The book creeped me out so much that I wouldn’t leave it on the nightstand at night. That book had to be out of the room before I could sleep!
One of the best books ever. Good vs Evil.......I am done with King also, but this one will stay in my favorites list.
I never get tired of it.
The Cats In The New ‘Pet Sematary’ Were ‘A Pack Of Divas’
https://www.cracked.com/article_26302_the-cats-in-new-pet-sematary-were-a-pack-divas.html
My first Maine Coon (27 years ago) was one of two tortie and whites in a Canadian litter. After seeing the pics of the kittens at 4 weeks of age (when they are simply a ball of fur with eyes, impossibly adorable), I knew that I had to have the one with the white facial blaze. I called the breeder and told her I had to have that kitten, not the other one. She said she was waiting to see which kitten would make the better show prospect, as a show home had first dibs on the kittens. I asked her if she wanted to pick up her newspaper and read "Brooklyn woman dies of broken heart". She laughed and said no, certainly not. She allowed that both kittens were very close in quality and that OK, she'd sell me the one with the blaze. A year later, she called me to tell me that the family who got the other kitten had come home from the movies, and found their cat dead in their bed. No symptoms, just dead. A necropsy showed abnormal changes in the heart. This was before we knew about HCM or had genetic tests for it. By the grace of G-d, I had chosen the kitten who did not have the gene and so got away with only a slight heart murmur, living to age 16 and earning her championship. Bibi was the living personification of L-O-V-E, utterly affectionate and wonderful, as are most of this breed. My present Coon is no different; her natural habitat is my lap.
Almost all of his books did that to me. I swear than man is demon possessed. :-) Who thinks up stuff like that?
That’s what they get for casting a cat that had already used up 8 of his lives.
Walmart has delivery service too....lots of options...maybe amazon once in a while...
I read his stuff right up to Tommyknockers.
But when he reverted to space aliens, I
realized I was wasting my life on his crap.
No more, no thanks.
Give me John Barth, Tom Wolfe, Tom Clancy among contemporary writers. King’s imagination has peaked out.
I liked The stand, It, Carrie, Different seasons and several of his short stories. The last one I read was dream catcher which just seemed to be compiled pieces of his old stories. I figured then he was out of ideas.
My taste varies widely, but lately I’ve been in a Larry McMurtry mood. I’m just about to finish Comanche Moon.
It was terrible.
Sorry, I have no proof.
Lots of things bother me about him, and many other “prolific” authors as well. The whole suddenly discovered Richard Bachman books. The Eye of the Serpent, which I enjoyed, didn’t seem to match his writing style, such as I opined it to be around that of the Stand. Some of the 90’s books’ plots seemed too familiar to others of “his”. The Gunslinger series sounded like he might have whipped off a story line of a few paragraphs to a publisher, and someone wrote seven pieces of Obama to waste my time.
Anyone who “writes” more than 15-20 books in 20-30 years is suspect to me. Readers’ Digest long ago sickened me with their made-up stories, before they aggressively campaigned against America, and the Clintons moved next doo.
The fraudulence of Grosset and Dunlap’s Franklin W. Dixon, Carolyn Keen, Victor Appleton I and II....
And Grosst and Dunlap seemed to change names every so often, too.
After Comanche Moon, may I recommend Blood Meridian?
“Although the novel initially generated only lukewarm critical and commercial reception, it has since become highly acclaimed and is widely recognized as McCarthy’s masterpiece, as well as one of the greatest American novels of all time.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Meridian
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