- A 1977 novel by Stephen King. Loosely adapted into a movie by Stanley Kubrick in 1980, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall – though quite different from the original, the film has become a classic in its own right. Still, Stephen King was irritated at the changes (while remaining lukewarm-to-positive about the film overall), and it was more faithfully remade as a 1997 miniseries starring Steven Weber and Rebecca De Mornay. It didn’t fare as well with the critics.
- The Sun (stars.astro.illinois.edu)
Similar in many languages, “Sun,” related to Latin’s “sol,” was represented in ancient Greece as Helios, god of the Sun. Giver of warmth and life, we hardly think of the Sun as a star, the term “Sun and stars” in constant use, though the surmise that it is a star goes back to ancient times.