Carrie
Americannoun
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Appeared in the February 17, 2026, print edition as 'Meet Fanny Fern, the Original Carrie Bradshaw'.
But once upon a time we flocked to it, particularly when Carrie Underwood starred as Maria in NBC’s December 2013 broadcast of “The Sound of Music Live!”
From Salon
The Oregon native has a tattoo of the phrase “Carrie White burns in hell” to commemorate her favorite film, Brian DePalma’s landmark Stephen King adaptation, “Carrie.”
From Los Angeles Times
“I find it interesting how many men are making horror movies about women. I talked about ‘Carrie.’
From Los Angeles Times
A humiliating incident in a pool surrounded by her repulsed classmates echoes an iconic scene from “Carrie,” with Ducournau crafting an analogy for traumatic adolescent rites of passage like menstruation.
From Los Angeles Times
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