Ann Serling will be a guest at the upcoming 35th Annual St. Louis Jewish Book Festival.
Best known for his role as the host of television’s The Twilight Zone, Rodman E. “Rod” Serling, an American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, narrator, and teacher had one of the most exceptional and varied careers in television. The winner of more Emmy Awards for dramatic writing than anyone in history, Serling challenged the medium of television to reach for loftier artistic goals. Serling expressed a deep social conscience in nearly everything he did and was known as the “angry young man” of Hollywood, clashing with television executives and sponsors over a wide range of issues including censorship, racism, and war.
Born in 1924, Rod Serling grew up in the small city of Binghamton, New York. The son of a butcher. His experiences of the working-class life of New York, and the horrors of World War II,...
Best known for his role as the host of television’s The Twilight Zone, Rodman E. “Rod” Serling, an American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, narrator, and teacher had one of the most exceptional and varied careers in television. The winner of more Emmy Awards for dramatic writing than anyone in history, Serling challenged the medium of television to reach for loftier artistic goals. Serling expressed a deep social conscience in nearly everything he did and was known as the “angry young man” of Hollywood, clashing with television executives and sponsors over a wide range of issues including censorship, racism, and war.
Born in 1924, Rod Serling grew up in the small city of Binghamton, New York. The son of a butcher. His experiences of the working-class life of New York, and the horrors of World War II,...
- 10/21/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot banner has finalized a deal with the estate of Rod Serling, sci-fi screenwriter and "Twilight Zone" host, to develop a series based on Serling's unproduced screenplay, "The Stops Along the Way." The script is reportedly the writer's final completed work before his death in 1975. The few bits of gleaned information on it, via Serling's widow, describe it as "a little bit of fantasy, a little bit of imagination... [it] takes place over a long period of time." TV sensation-turned-big screen director Abrams, whose "Star Trek Into Darkness" is currently in theaters and who has the next "Star Wars" installment looming, has long cited "The Twilight Zone" as a chief inspiration. Serling's teleplays for the show are considered highlights in its five-year run from 1959 to 1964; his Playhouse 90 works, including "Requiem for a Heavyweight," "A Town Has Turned to Dust" and "The Comedian," are lauded as television triumphs.
- 6/5/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
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