The rest of us may find our sleep haunted by images from "Carrie" or "Christine." Stephen King is tormented by the specter of Harold Robbins. The reason he's going to retire from writing books soon, the prolific author recently told the Los Angeles Times, is that he doesn't want to end up writing way past his prime, as Robbins did. "That's my nightmare," King says. Good to know.

Guess who's coming back to take folk music to 11! Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer and Michael McKean -- along with Eugene Levy -- are reuniting to do for the Kumbaya set what they did to rock music in "Spinal Tap." Guest and Levy are working on a new film that "deals with three folk acts that get together for a memorial concert at Carnegie Hall because a famous legendary folk manager has died," Guest told the Hollywood Reporter. "These acts were active in the '60s but have been out of the business since the early '70s. They must now travel to New York to honor this man who has died, and play the concert." Someone better warn them that in these days of tightened airport security, a foil-wrapped cucumber could get them in lots of trouble.

They don't really want to hurt him. "Taboo," the musical based on Boy George's life story, is a hit on the London stage, playing to packed houses and generally favorable notices. "I was very quiet before the performance, which is unlike me," the former Culture Clubber told the U.K. press on opening night, "but now it's over I'm thrilled that everyone seems to have enjoyed it so much." From "I'll Tumble for Ya" to "break a leg" in one easy step ...

Blame Boy George? A musical based on Gov. Jesse Ventura's life story is apparently thundering its way toward the stage. "The music will have a very heavy rock sound because that is the governor's favorite kind of music and the sound he wanted," composer Stephen Dolginoff told Playbill Online. "It will blend very well with the outrageous wrestling. It's not a rock opera, it's very much like a traditional musical, with book songs." Songs with names like "Do You Like the Rolling Stones" and "I Don't Know the Meaning of Can't." Does he know the meaning of "please, don't"?

More promising ... "I Dream of Jeannie," the musical. According to Variety, the '60s sitcom, already being developed as a movie, is also being turned into a stage musical. Oh, master!

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