On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:29:18 GMT, "Sal Video" <dsiv@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Why am I hearing the Twighlight Zone theme in my head the entire time I'm
>reading this?
>
I couldn't say man, but I watched everything he ever produced and
consider him to have been an excellent influence on my life.
Look at me. I didn't turn out to be a racist, bigot or a conservative.
Oh right! Redundancy. Bigot and conservative are the same thing :)
And if Len were here, I could prove it. Will greenie do instead? :)
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>"Meldon" <meldon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> Rod Serling became a Unitarian despite the religion to which he was
born.
>>
>> Infamous for being an outsider in the industry, in mid-life, I seem to
>> recall, he lived in
>> seclusion in a trailer in the desert and later in New York died at a
>> relatively young age after a series of heart attacks.
>>
>> Most famous for his series, The Twilight Zone, he wrote the screenplay
for
>> an episode entitled "To Serve Man", which in the end, it was found to
be a
>> recipe!
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zone)
>>
>> Another more well known work of fiction was the original Planet of the
>> Apes for which he co-wrote the screenplay.
>>
>> Both of these amazing works had a common theme, namely, grand dystopian
>> conspiracy.
>>
>> In the latter, appears not simply a tale of domination by the great
apes
>> but conspiracies of hidden knowledge and suppressed history. It is
>> generally understood the film was a social commentary.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_apes
>>
>> Rod Serling may have been presenting warning of malevolence in the form
of
>> benevolence in the only way he safely could.
>>
>>
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