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mrmpa

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32. Did you ever read The Shining?.......

Reply to Downtown Hound (Reply #25)

Tue Oct 2, 2012, 12:44 PM

Oct 2012

If so you might have been as disappointed as me. In the book, the character played by Scatman Carothers is actually the hero and survives. In the movie he was killed off.

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