While the ahead-of-its-time The Twilight Zone has fascinated and influenced countless viewers since it first aired in 1959, the man behind the show—the one who introduced the episodes—is equally as intriguing. With his new graphic novel, The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television, Koren Shadmi looks back at the life of the legendary Rod Serling, exploring the complexities of the great creator before, during, and after The Twilight Zone, as well as his undeniable influence on the rise of television as not only a source of entertainment, but of thought-provoking (and oftentimes chilling) intellect. With The Twilight Man out now from Humanoids, we caught up with Shadmi for our latest Q&a feature to discuss researching Serling, the process of portraying his life in graphic novel form, and what he hopes readers will take away from this memoir.
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- 12/12/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Gone With The Wind Actress Ann Rutherford Dies. [Photo: Ann Rutherford as Carreen O'Hara, Evelyn Keyes as Suellen O'Hara in Gone with the Wind.]
Ann Rutherford‘s most notable screen roles were in films made away from both MGM and Wallace Beery. She was a young woman who falls for trumpeter George Montgomery in Archie Mayo’s 20th Century Fox musical Orchestra Wives (1942), and became enmeshed with (possibly) amnesiac Tom Conway in Anthony Mann’s Rko thriller Two O’Clock Courage (1945).
Following a couple of minor supporting roles — in the Danny Kaye comedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) at Goldwyn and the Errol Flynn costumer The Adventures of Don Juan (1948) at Warner Bros. — and the female lead in the independently made cattle drama Operation Haylift (1950), opposite Bill Williams, Ann Rutherford retired from the screen. (Rutherford would later say that her Operation Haylift experience was anything but pleasant.)
She then turned to television, making regular television appearances in the ’50s (The Donna Reed Show, Playhouse 90,...
Ann Rutherford‘s most notable screen roles were in films made away from both MGM and Wallace Beery. She was a young woman who falls for trumpeter George Montgomery in Archie Mayo’s 20th Century Fox musical Orchestra Wives (1942), and became enmeshed with (possibly) amnesiac Tom Conway in Anthony Mann’s Rko thriller Two O’Clock Courage (1945).
Following a couple of minor supporting roles — in the Danny Kaye comedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) at Goldwyn and the Errol Flynn costumer The Adventures of Don Juan (1948) at Warner Bros. — and the female lead in the independently made cattle drama Operation Haylift (1950), opposite Bill Williams, Ann Rutherford retired from the screen. (Rutherford would later say that her Operation Haylift experience was anything but pleasant.)
She then turned to television, making regular television appearances in the ’50s (The Donna Reed Show, Playhouse 90,...
- 6/12/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Master in Twilight
A giant of the genre, Rod Serling welcomed TV viewers to another dimension, a land known to all of as The Twilight Zone. In the process, one of TV’s “Angry Young Men,” already famous for his live TV dramas (and movies) Requiem For A Heavyweight and Patterns, truly became a legend.
Serling also steered a TV Western (The Loner), presented a later genre TV anthology (Night Gallery), voiced countless commercials, narrated numerous documentaries and co-scripted the film version of Planet Of The Apes.
In this Brief interview, conducted in 1974, just a year before his death, Serling stopped to consider the challenge of a writing career and his own life in The Twilight Zone.
Starlog: What do you think when looking back on your two genre TV series?
Rod Serling: Twilight Zone was very innovative for the time. Night Gallery I’m not as proud of.
A giant of the genre, Rod Serling welcomed TV viewers to another dimension, a land known to all of as The Twilight Zone. In the process, one of TV’s “Angry Young Men,” already famous for his live TV dramas (and movies) Requiem For A Heavyweight and Patterns, truly became a legend.
Serling also steered a TV Western (The Loner), presented a later genre TV anthology (Night Gallery), voiced countless commercials, narrated numerous documentaries and co-scripted the film version of Planet Of The Apes.
In this Brief interview, conducted in 1974, just a year before his death, Serling stopped to consider the challenge of a writing career and his own life in The Twilight Zone.
Starlog: What do you think when looking back on your two genre TV series?
Rod Serling: Twilight Zone was very innovative for the time. Night Gallery I’m not as proud of.
- 10/2/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (Robert R. Rees)
- Starlog
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