Carrie became the 9th highest-grossing film of 1976.

They were so fashionable that various G3 models became the personal computer of Carrie Bradshaw in the long-running Sex and the City television show.

After her appearance wearing the " golden metal bikini ", Carrie Fisher ( and thus Leia herself ) almost immediately became a cult sex symbol.

In 1986, Stratford-upon-Avon became home to the legendary but ill-fated Carrie.

Barry Benefield later took up the story and made a revised version of it the first chapter of what became the 1936 novel " Valiant is the word for Carrie ".

In late 1999, as the first homes became occupied, the church was already open through the ministry of Rev Dr Carrie Pemberton.

Carrie Underwood became a crossover success in 2006 and 2007 though, with her hit single Before He Cheats.

The name " Gold " is a shortened form of the name acquired by Tracey and Missy when they were adopted by Harry Goldstein, who married her mother when Tracey was a preschooler ; an actor in his own right ( he had supporting roles in Carrie and on The Secrets of Isis ), he later became a Hollywood agent.

Sex and the City became a successful series, and the role of Carrie made Sarah Jessica Parker world-famous.

Carrie became pregnant when she was seventeen as a result of being raped.

Hamburg became executive director of Voice of the Environment, and on December 8, 2004, was arrested along with his wife Carrie for trying to deliver a letter to Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell concerning alleged voter fraud in Ohio in the 2004 U. S. presidential election.

They married soon thereafter and moved to Argonia, where she was active in the local Woman's Christian Temperance Union and Prohibition Party organizations, and became acquainted with nationally-known temperance activist Carrie A.

Because of this, Carrie deeply resented her presence at first, but they later became friends.

Carrie Underwood became a crossover success in 2006 and 2007 though, with her hit single Before He Cheats.

Coached by Carrie Graf the Flames became one of Australia ’ s most popular women ’ s sporting team.

Ms. Carrie Allen, formerly an administrator for the Pasadena Unified School District in Pasadena, California became principal in 2009.

While famous for classic recordings from Rod Stewart, Aretha Franklin, Eric Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Rolling Stones and The Allman Brothers, recent hit songs such as " Before He Cheats " by Carrie Underwood and " I Loved Her First " by Heartland continue the city's musical legacy.

Moss ' mother reportedly named her after The Hollies ' 1967 hit song, " Carrie Anne ", which had been released in May that year.

Spacek's film Carrie was released during this film's production and proved to be a massive hit ( and a movie poster for the film appears when the main character walks by a movie theater ).

In 1998, Delany reportedly turned down the role of Carrie Bradshaw in the hit TV show Sex and the City.

Darling's stage career hit a real high when she landed the role of Carrie Pipperidge in the original Broadway production of Carousel in 1945.

Michaeli has co-written several Europe songs ; the most famous song is the hit ballad " Carrie " from the album The Final Countdown.

At this wedding, Charles meets Carrie for the first time and spends the night with her.

Also in the 1970s, horror author Stephen King debuted on the film scene as many of his books were adapted for the screen, beginning with Brian De Palma's adaptation of King's first published novel, Carrie ( 1976 ), which was nominated for Academy Awards.

* April 24 – Stephen King publishes Carrie, his first novel under his own name.

His first novel, Sister Carrie, published in 1900, tells the story of a woman who flees her country life for the city ( Chicago ) and there lives a life far from a Victorian ideal.

She came to international prominence for her roles as Holly Sargis in Terrence Malick's 1973 film Badlands, and as Carrie White in Brian De Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie ( based on the first novel by Stephen King ) for which she earned her first Academy Award nomination.

King talks about his early attempts to get published, and his first novel Carrie.

Ray Brower, the boy who went missing and the reason Gordie, Chris, Teddy, and Vern took the camping trip to Back Harlow Road, is from Chamberlain, which is the setting for the King's first novel Carrie.

Stephen King has revealed that it is the first novel he ever wrote, begun eight years before Carrie was published in 1974, when he was a freshman at the University of Maine in 1966-67.

At the beginning of the novel, Carrie has her first period while showering after gym class.

Carrie is nervous at first, but everyone begins treating her equally.

* The first adaption of Carrie was a feature film of the same name, released in 1976.

* Identification characteristics for first edition copies of Carrie!

Reynolds's first marriage, to popular singer Eddie Fisher, produced a son and a daughter, actress / author Carrie Fisher, but ended in divorce in 1959 when Fisher fell in love with Reynolds's former ( and later ) friend Elizabeth Taylor.

In due course, she also meets his wife Carrie, an American coming from a rich background, and their children — Emily, her 17 year-old daughter by her first marriage ; Simon and Mark, two teenage boys ; and 8 year-old Hope, a girl.

Back home in the U. S. A., Mr Thurlow, Carrie's rich father, has two serious heart attacks in a row so that Carrie books the first flight home.

Kiowas was the city where anti-saloon advocate Carrie Nation vandalized her first saloon.

Sister Carrie ( 1900 ) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later as a famous actress.

Hurstwood buys a minority interest in a saloon and, at first, is able to provide Carrie with a satisfactory – if not lavish – standard of living.

In his Nobel Prize Lecture of 1930, Sinclair Lewis said that " Dreiser's great first novel, Sister Carrie, which he dared to publish thirty long years ago and which I read twenty-five years ago, came to housebound and airless America like a great free Western wind, and to our stuffy domesticity gave us the first fresh air since Mark Twain and Whitman ".

Overall, Sister Carrie was not well received when it was first released due to its scandalous content and its bleak outlook on life and human efforts to change their condition.