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Oh yeah, I remember that bit. I tend to skim past most of it because it's not exactly the best written part of the series.

Of course if one is going to hold to that then either King or someone who resembles him would have had to play the part.

I am sure Roland was supposed to look like Clint Eastwood originally. I remember Jake looking at Eastwood's picture on a movie poster and thinking to himself 'almost, but not quite'. But King started changing things as the book series progressed.

I always figured the twinning thing was more like "twin-spirits" or somehow otherwhise connected through the whole ka-deal, rather than literal physical twins. Though I do remember some remarks about King and Roland sharing characteristics and being connected, King is a lifetime-bookworm and former alcoholic and coke-addict and Roland is a hardened interdimensonal cowboy/crusader, and I Think it'd be a hard sell to have too much of the one in the other.

The twinners concept started with The Talisman where people have alternate selves in alternate worlds. The Talisman did not have anything to do with the Dark Tower really but the sequel Black House written much later did. I am not completely sure about the Roland and King connection. I just remember getting that impression.

I found a passage in Song of Susannah that says, "Eddie Dean sees Stephen King as a young man and recognizes that he and Roland share many of the same physical features, saying that Roland could be King's father."