This is one hell of a “Where Are They Now!” Mainly because I didn’t realize that this was “That Guy” until the other day. Since the fact eluded me for quite a while, it may have eluded you as well. This may not be news to you, however, but that’s OK. I did some serious digging around and managed to come up with some pretty good stuff on this, even if I do look like a dirty perv for it.

You are probably familiar with Doug Hutchison as the wretched piece of garbage that was Percy Wetmore from “The Green Mile.” There’s a short clip from the movie above, if you need reminding. He was also a security tech in “Lawnmower Man,” another Stephen King movie in ’92. The most notable things in his career since “The Green Mile” in ’99 are as follows:

• Various episodes of CSI (2002, 2004), John Doe (2003-2004), Law and Order (2004), Lost (2007-2009) and 24 (2010)
• He, at the age of 51, married a 16 year old

What? Yeah… you got it. You probably saw a lot of the publicity on this. It is still a pretty hot topic. He married Courtney Stodden. That blonde bimbo that wishes she had Britney Spears’ street cred but just ends up creeping people out with her overtly “sensual” TV interviews and Twitter sexting.

Here is an interview Doug Hutchison and Courtney Stodden did together on Good Morning America. Watch her face…

Here’s a clip from “The Soup,” my preferred method of keeping up with celeb news

You may be wondering why I’m choosing to focus so much on Courtney Stodden with these clips. Well, that is easy enough to answer. It is my feeling that Doug Hutchison, because of his marriage to this underage girl, has thrown away his career. I don’t believe people will continue to support him. Sure, they will talk about him and mock him on various blogs (like I’m doing now) but I can’t recall when mockery started paying bills. At worst, this is a crazy story about a pedophile and his not-so-reluctant victim. At best, it’s a publicity stunt to further her career. Let’s be honest, this WILL NOT help his career, so I think they did it wrong.

A little bit of evidence that this is a publicity stunt is this video from Funny Or Die in which Doug and Courtney display a sense of humor over the limelight surrounding their controversial relationship:

What this video says to me is that their marriage is either a publicity stunt, or that the two of them are willing to publicly throw their relationship in the faces of others, which will get people continuing to talk about them (like I’m doing now) and making them BOTH whores. By that I mean that Doug is too stupid to see that he is being used in a way that will harm him greatly and Courtney is willing to exploit the mentally challenged, which, as I just explained, he is. I would like to take a moment to apologize to the mentally challenged people that may be reading this, for putting you in the same boat with this guy.

I believe I have made it apparent that I don’t approve of a 51 year-old marrying a 16 year-old. This is not, however, a “for shame! You married an underage girl!” post. Her parents signed off on it and it’s all legal. She also looks adult enough, so I can’t say that he “likes little girls” because even the most sensitive person can take one look at her and say that she looks of age. I get the idea that it’s the principle of the matter. Those things have all been harped on plenty and you have your own opinions about this sensationship.

Doug has managed to sacrifice his career for her’s, which will be a drop in the bucket under the best of circumstances. Anyone that says “he’s not thinking of anyone but himself!” is wrong. He has done himself a great injustice. He could have had a great acting career, but he threw that away. Maybe he can get a role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit… Wait… He did that show already. Ironic?

True, in some cases. Generally, I think gentlemen prefer of legal age and not willing to rape my career.

Posted by Matt Jacobs #NFWBG

Where Are They Now? Kate Maberly | Miko Hughes | Danny Lloyd | Adam Storke

I am super stoked that I was able to get caught up (mostly) with my comic collection! While I was out nerd shopping, I thought it would be cool to show you my little spot that I get my fix at, Matt’s Cavalcade of Comics, Cards and Collectibles. I also wanted to show you the comics I picked up for this trip. I am still behind on some of my other stuff, like Joe Hill’s “Locke and Key,” “iZombie,”  ”Wormwood: A Gentleman’s Corpse” and a few others, but I plan to go back in a week or two.

This video leads me to a few questions for you…

1. What else should I be reading? I kind of got out of the super-hero thing when I was a kid, but that doesn’t mean I won’t give them a look.
2. Would you be interested in a video that goes through my King or entire comic collection?
3. Should I do more of these videos?

Let me know what you think.

I didn’t just get King comics while I was there, I also picked up some of my regular stuff as well. Here’s the list, if you’re interested. I have included links to the various publishers of these fine comics so you can grab them too, if you want:

• “Jesus Hates Zombies: A Jurassic Kind of Life 1 &2″ link
• “Massive Awesome #4″ link
• “Zombies of Foreign Wars #1″ link
• “Li’l Lincoln Mini-Edition #1″ link
• “The 3 Brothers Frog!” link

I am proud to support indie comics and the publishers that put them out. Please show your support for these indie publishers and hit the links and buy some comics!

Posted by Matt Jacobs

Most of these articles, I realized, were focusing on child stars from Stephen King’s movies. I wanted to change it up a bit, so I decided to look up Adam Storke. You may recognize him as the lovable asshole, Larry Underwood, from “The Stand.” It comes to mind because a few people have requested the movie to be covered on Movie Club, but I am dreading trying to cover an 8 hour movie (mini-series is the proper term, but you get what I mean) in a 15 minute episode of Movie Club. I will probably have to do it in parts.

I sent an email to the company Adam is currently affiliated with (at least that’s what Facebook says) requesting an interview with Adam, but I never received a return email. Since that is the case, I will go on without him.

Adam Storke has not done much (acting wise) since “The Stand”, which is unfortunate. He was in “Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women” in which he played a parody of John Wayne Bobbitt… you know, the guy that had his willy cut off a few years back and then had it “repaired” and then started doing horrible and tragic (yet still kinda funny, in the ironic sense) porno movies? If you get that joke, then you’re welcome, because it’s pretty good. If you don’t get that joke, then thank you for proving that I had to follow his name with that short, yet on-the-nose description. The point that I’m making, is that I’m not really sure that is a role anyone would want to take.

He was in several TV shows, mostly single episodes, and recently did a short film and a feature film called “Broadway’s Finest.” Most of his best work, or most notable, at least, was prior to “The Stand.” His wikipedia page doesn’t offer anymore info than his IMDb page does. However, I found a Facebook page for him that had a link to Storefront Digital in the “Work” section on the info page. They appear to dabble in advertising, marketing and brand management. I say that because (as you will see by visiting the site) their website seems to just link over to other websites.

I just realized that this must be the worst “Where Are They Now?” piece ever, because I have no real answers. Then again, it’s hard to provide answers when there aren’t really many out there and no one returns emails that could answer these questions… #JustSaying

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Posted by Matt Jacobs

Where Are They Now? Kate Maberly | Miko Hughes | Danny Lloyd

Here’s an excerpt from “The Stand”

You may know that an unabridged version of “The Stand” was re-released in audiobook format. This is great news to a guy like me that has the original unabridged audiobook (which was original in cassette tape format, then converted to mp3 and torrented by me at a much later date) and thought the quality was garbage, but still listened. Now I can get an official version with updated technology and awesome sound quality! YAY!

The intriguing part of the story is that it will not be available in hard copy, only as a digital download. That doesn’t bother me, that’s how I was going to get it anyway. I do know that this will tweak some people’s taters. This is a sign of things to come, I believe, so if you aren’t on board with digital download of your audio content, get that way. Most major record labels have announced that they will no longer be making CD’s (around the end of 2012) and will only make music available via digital download. I mention that because I think it is worth mentioning. The record labels, that used to be so up-in-arms about digital downloads, are now going to be making that their primary form of music distribution and I see other industries following suite.

Personally, I get annoyed if I want to watch a movie and it’s not available via Netflix streaming, iTunes or Amazon, because that is my preferred method of watching movies. Just like my preferred method of reading is actually listening. What can I say, I like having options. Lilja’s Library posted something about this on Facebook about a week ago wanting to know if people preferred to download the content, have a hard copy or were indifferent to the subject. The overwhelming majority said hard copy. Although, I think they thought the question was whether people preferred paper book or audiobook and so, of course, the hard copy won out. If you want to try out the digital download world, you can get a free download of “The Stand” from Audible by clicking the link below, but only if you’re a new audible customer.

What do you think? You prefer a hard copy of an AUDIOBOOK or does digital download work for you? Are you a hard copy person that is going to step into the world of digital downloading for “The Stand”? Are you refusing to get the audiobook because its only available for digital download? Tell me your thoughts here or on Facebook | Google+ | Twitter

Download “The Stand” from:  Audible ($23.52/Free) | iTunes ($28.95)

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Related Posts:  “Mile 81″ Now Available as an Audiobook | My Favorite Stephen King Audiobooks | My Favorite Audiobooks: Not Counting Stephen King

One of the wonderful readers of this blog posted this on our Facebook Page, and I wanted to take a minute to share it with you. This is the entire Dark Tower story, summed up in a 7:20 YouTube Video! Big shout to our Facebook friend Brian for posting this and bringing it to our attention! Another big shout out to the person/people that took the time to grab all these clips and string them together! Job well done!

Posted By Matt Jacobs

Coming this month, we will be graced with a Donald Grant Limited Edition Hardcover of The Wind Through The Keyhole, illustrated by Jae Lee.

There will be  deluxe versions available that are signed by Jae Lee and Stephen King, but those will only be available to people who purchased the Little Sisters of Eluria below #801. In addition to the 800 Deluxe versions available, there will be 5000 that are signed by Jae Lee that will be available for purchase by anyone.

For more information on ordering these special editions go to: here.

Posted by Jarrod Cartee

I couldn’t seem to find a copy of Salem’s Lot on DVD or for digital download anywhere! I did, however, find a person that uploaded the entire movie to YouTube. I went ahead and made a playlist for both the 1979 and 2004 versions of the film! However, this episode of Movie Club focused on the 1979 version.

Salem’s Lot on YouTube:  Salem’s Lot (1979) | Salem’s Lot (2004)

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Since the podcast hosting problem occurred, I didn’t want to release this as it wouldn’t be available in all it’s formats. Then I said to myself, “Better to get it out there in some form than in no forms!” So here it is! Stay tuned and I will have updated iTunes and Zune podcast subscription info in the near future.

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However, I have received feedback about those early episodes saying that people liked hearing the bad quality compared to the current quality. It shows that the podcast, and myself have grown in the process of creating the podcast. I would like your opinion on the matter. Should I re-record the episodes in the podcast’s current format? Should I leave them as they are? What do you think?

Leave your thoughts here, on the blog or on Facebook, Google+ or Twitter!

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You may remember  when I was interviewed on Talk Stephen King not that long ago. Well, that interview spawned a post by Bryant Burnette over at Ramblings of a Honk Mahfah, titled “Why Listening and Reading are Not the Same Thing.” That lead to David at TSK wanting to moderate a discussion (or pick a fight, whichever) on the topic between myself and Bryant Burnette. It got kind of interesting and ended up turning into NerdFest 2012! You know how I love a good NerdFest, me…

The happenings of said nerdfest are all documented over on the Talk Stephen King blog, so link over and have a read!

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Just like in the real world, if you want your own space on the web to create things and make them accessible, you have to get someone to allow you to use their  space. This is generally done by renting or purchasing. Also just like in the real world, the buying, generally, costs you a lot up front and renting is just more affordable at the moment. I don’t have several thousand dollars to purchase my own server, but I can come up with $30 a month to rent the space needed to host these files. Another part of the service is generating a feed for your files. The feed is what allows the user, that’s you, to subscribe to the podcast once and then get every subsequent episode, “pushed” out to your iTunes, Zune or feed reader accounts. This way, you don’t have to go looking for a new episode every time one is released, it comes to you, automatically the next time you login to iTunes or Zune or whatever. Similar to Facebook or Twitter, you don’t have to visit your friends page to see their updates, those updates are automatically “pushed” out to your news feed.

I will be going with a new hosting service for these podcasts and will take me a while to get that worked out. In light of these developments, the new episode of the Stephen King Movie club that was supposed to go up last Saturday, will be delayed until I can get this all worked out. So will any future episode of the Stephen King Fancast. I’m sorry, but there is no way around this.

I want it to be known that this is in no way something I had control of or could have prevented. I will be working on the problem non-stop from now until this is fixed. This will be an insane workload, so I will not be publishing any articles of my own until I get this sorted.

I also want to say that if you are currently subscribed to either/both of these podcasts, you will need to re-subscribe once the new hosting has been figured out. Since I have been locked out of my Mevio account, I can’t upload new episodes to their service, nor can I update the feed they provided me with. That means that the feed provided to me, by Mevio, is now dead. I will never be able to update that feed. I would suggest unsubscribing from the Stephen King Fancast and Stephen King Movie Club feeds through iTunes, Zune or whatever other service you may be subscribed through.

Once I get this all sorted out, I will have to re-submit the podcast(s) to iTunes, Zune and Stitcher. Once they are approved, I will put up a post here with the appropriate links to subscribe to the new feeds. The links on the podcast pages here will all be updated once I have that information for you.

I am so sorry for this downtime and hope you return and re-subscribe to the podcasts. Both of them had great subscriber and download numbers that I used to get sponsorships and to try to earn ad dollars for the shows, all those numbers will now be reset to zero and I may lose some affiliate relationships due to this. What that means, is that, as far as the podcasts are concerned, all the work that I have put into them and to building my podience (that’s my made up word for my podcast audience) has been almost completely undermined. I’m sure Bob Ledrew of the Kingcast will confirm, 98% of podcast listeners never visit the blog or any of its related pages (Facebook, GetGlue, Google+, Tumblr, Twitter and YouTube) and will not know what is going on with this. I will have to hope that they think to search for the podcast again in the future.

That tells me that I just lost 98% of a listener base that I worked very hard to build. You can’t possibly imagine how depressing that is to me. I’m not sure if any of my fellow Stephen King bloggers/podcasters are reading this, but you might understand. I would like to ask a favor of my King colleagues. If you are so inclined, I ask that you please post something about this on your blog and/or say something about it on your podcast. There is a chance that some of my listeners/viewers are regulars to your site and they may like the info.

If you are a subscriber to these podcasts, and are upset that this site will be experiencing some downtime, I would like to refer you to the links below to check out some great SK related blogs and podcasts that I, personally, am subscribed to and hope you head over there for your SK related news. I know most of the bloggers/podcasters personally and know that they are all great at what they do and I have nothing but the utmost respect for them. The podcasts here will available again soon, so don’t go too far.

Down, but definitely not out,

@alloy_matt

Blogs:  Lilja’s Library | Ramblings of a Honk Mahfah | Talk Stephen King | Tower Junky

Podcasts:  Discordia 19 | The Kingcast