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Died. Rod Serling, 50, television and motion-picture writer and creator of the supernaturally spooky series Twilight Zone; of a heart attack; in Rochester, N.Y. After a grueling apprenticeship as a freelance scriptwriter, Serling went on to write Patterns, Requiem for a Heavyweight and other major television plays, earning six Emmy awards, more than any other writer...
...Locust. "The violet hush of twilight was descending over Los Angeles as my hostess, Violet Hush, and I left its suburbs headed toward Hollywood. In the distance a glow of huge piles of burning motion picture scripts lit up the sky. The crisp tang of frying writers and directors whetted my appetite. How good it was to be alive, I thought, inhaling deep lungfuls of carbon monoxide... A suttee was in progress by the road side... Violet and I elbowed our way through the crowd. An enormous funeral pyre composed of thousands of feet of film and scripts drenched with...
...past closing time at the Fogg; its galleries, hung in the first thread of twilight, are deserted. Suddenly Seymour Slive, the museum's new director, throws himself into an exhibit just hung for a course in 18th-century French art. He stalks backwards, arms out-flung, palms raised, beckoning. "Look at this picture," he commands, his bulging, saucer eyes electric under the flu's rheumy glaze. "It's a wreck, a total wreck. But I think some of its qualities can still be appreciated, that I can help in our teaching." Slive is right. The canvas is a patchwork...
When Yale and Harvard last met on the baseball diamond, April 20 of last year for a doubleheader in New Haven, it was like an episode of the Twilight Zone. The Eli's Don Gallagher played Rod Serling, walking the leadoff Crimson batter in each of the seven innings of the first game (ending with a grand total of twelve walks) and pitching a no-hitter, Yale won the game...
...very good man, it's just that I'm a very bad wizard," he says when the jig is up. But the jig is not up in Hollywood because the wizards have learned how to read charts and work computers. Just because of that this may be the twilight of the old movies--in fifty years there will probably only be revival theaters. Everything will be piped home, first run onto big TV screens in the living room. We'll pay for our movie tickets on the phone bill. That's what Hollywood media prophets tell me anyway...