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...behemoths who "gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws" to the book's naughty young hero, Max. One alarmed reviewer wrote that Sendak's volume should not be "left about where a sensitive child might find it to pore over in the twilight." Children, with a greater capacity to find innocent pleasure in phantasms than their fearful elders, almost immediately took to Wild Things, making it one of the most popular of Sendak's books...
...considered the birthplace of rock 'n' roll, but in the past two decades the Sun Records studio in Memphis has seemed to be in its twilight. Still, music fans who feared that rockabilly might eventually go the way of the turkey trot can take heart. Last week a 1985 version of the legendary "Million Dollar Quartet," which once included Elvis Presley, was back in Memphis. The veteran country rockers-- Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Presley Replacement Roy Orbison--were on hand to record a new album and a television special in the same studio where they...
Indeed, three of the season's four new anthology shows deal explicitly with the unexpected, the strange and the fantastic: Steven Spielberg's eagerly awaited Amazing Stories, a new TV version of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (both on NBC), and CBS's reincarnation of The Twilight Zone. CBS is premiering a fourth series, George Burns Comedy Week, which will feature a different comedy segment each week, linked by Burns, who acts as host, and the creative oversight of Co-Executive Producer Steve Martin. Each of these anthologies has enlisted a notable array of directors and writers who rarely or never...
...Twilight Zone, by contrast, will offer mostly new segments (two to three per hour) based on stories by such writers as Stephen King, Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke; the directors include William Friedkin, Joe Dante (Gremlins) and Robert Downey (Putney Swope). The show has the difficult task of living up to Rod Serling's classic series, but the early signs are encouraging. A segment in the premiere show features Melinda Dillon as a harried housewife who has the power to make her noisy world stop dead in its tracks. The tone of antic irony, however, leaves the viewer unprepared...
...well. The two-hour fall premiere episode, shot in New York City and scheduled for Sept. 27, will feature such guest stars as Gene Simmons of Kiss and Peter Allen. The show is also playing a major role (along with such new series as Amazing Stories and The Twilight Zone) in attracting writers and directors who have previously avoided television. "The old stigma against TV is gone now," says Bobby Roth. "A lot of shows are going to sound better, and they are going to look better. And I think Miami Vice is a big reason for that...