Christine (1983 film) "Christine". Kobritz purchased the rights to "Christine" after finding himself attracted to the novel's "celebration of America's obsession with the motorcar." According to John Carpenter, "Christine" was not a film he had planned on directing, saying that he directed the film as "a job" as opposed to a "personal project." He had previously directed "The Thing" (1982), which had done poorly at the box office and led to critical backlash. In retrospect, Carpenter stated that upon reading "Christine", he felt that "It just wasn't very frightening. But it was something I needed to do at that time for my career."
Christine Orr in the Edinburgh New Town. Orr then founded the Christine Orr Players, one of eight theatre companies to perform an unofficial event during the first Edinburgh International Festival in 1947, "planting the roots of what would come to be known as the Festival Fringe". The group put on a production of "Macbeth", starring Robin Stark, and for which Orr also designed the costumes. The production was called "a great achievement" by the theatre paper "The Stage". She also founded The Makars in 1932, which remained "one of Edinburgh's leading amateur groups" for at least two decades. Christine Orr Christine Grant