BruceH

The Job....(*sigh*)

I'd sure like to hear it, one way or another!

I know what you mean. I really felt we had turned some sort of corner when Damon Knight died. (And I don't mean to jinx anything here, but at least William Tenn is still alive.)

Sad, sad, sad.

Ah, good old SPY Magazine...those were the days.

I'll never forget reading and obsessively re-reading Report On Planet Three in junior high. How I loved that book.

You know, I heard about this stupid, idiotic article and thought they might be talking about Ann Coulter.

Terrible shock, this. RIP

By strange coincidence TCM showed A Man For All Seasons just a few weeks ago. RIP

Bags' Groove---wow. Good news for a beginner I guess.

Yeah, for years I've thought that that particular book is one of my all-time favorite "Screwball Comedy" books because it's one of the very few to get the subject RIGHT. (Arguably the only one.)

Thanks for that, mmilovan. Very nice!

I don't see how anyone can outdo Buddy Rich in this department.

Same here. I lived in Boston for some 7 years and St. Patrick's Day was something to get through, not enjoy. Ah, memories...

That's the new, 13-story collection, right? Myself, I'm re-reading Movie Love In the Fifties by James Harvey. In the years since it's release I've tended just to reread chapter 2, "Out of the Past," which really stands on its own. The rest of the book is well worth reconsideration I'm finding. Harvey is a perceptive writer; so what if his books don't have a strong narrative thrust?

A laugh track just isn't the same thing as a score, but otherwise I agree with you. (Even about the quality-quotient of the episodes. My take on that depends a lot on my mood. These things are very subjective. And when I've occasionally caught some of some little-known anthology-series of the time on cable, like Thriller!, TZ looks very good in comparison.)

Same here--although it was in the early '70s. Same here; early '70s, the summer vacation between 6th and 7th grade. Around the same time I also read Profiles of the Future. I consider Clarke a big influence on my mental development particularly between the ages of 12-14. His passing is certainly not unexpected, given his age, but, well... RIP Maybe now he's part of that great Overmind in the sky.

I once walked two miles on a knee in need of surgical repair to buy a copy of Winogrand's OOP "Figments from the Real World." indeed! Along with Lee Friedlander one of my favorite modern (post-modern?) photographers. I wish all his collections were back in print.

I heard that the hour format was forced on Serling by the network and he hated it. (BTW, I always thought the music was perhaps the best thing about the series.) You can't be serious that the music was "the best thing" - or else I'd have to guess you aren't that much of a fan. I mean really - the music is good and all but its like saying the best part of M*A*S*H* was the laugh track. The laugh-track on M*A*S*H was the same ol' dead people laughing. But the music from The Twilight Zone was memorable in its own right and very arguably the most memorable thing about the series as a whole. Just sayin'... Yeah, I'm not saying that it ain't arguable. But those episodes that are your particular favorites: Even if you didn't notice the music consciously, I'm sure it contributed subliminaly to their effectiveness. That much I don't think can be argued against. But by all means, YMMV, now and forever.

I heard that the hour format was forced on Serling by the network and he hated it. (BTW, I always thought the music was perhaps the best thing about the series.) You can't be serious that the music was "the best thing" - or else I'd have to guess you aren't that much of a fan. I mean really - the music is good and all but its like saying the best part of M*A*S*H* was the laugh track. Well in some ways I'm NOT much of a fan. Every time I've caught a TZ marathon I've been amazed at how many of the episodes were weak. Frankly, if you're not veiwing them through a filter of nostalgia, most of them don't hold up very well at all. But I do have a bit of nostalgia for the show, so I guess I am a partial fan...just not a huge one. And to compare saying the music is the element that you appreciate the most is "like saying that the best part of M*A*S*H* was the laugh track" is just, well, laughable. One is the themes and occasional score, the other is a goddamn LAUGH TRACK. C'mon! (Come to think of it, since M*A*S*H* was scored for part of it's run by Benny Golson, I'd have to say that, yeah, for at least that amount of time, the best thing for me about that show was ALSO the music. What's wrong with that?)

...and why does Mulligan look like an old gold prospecter ("Ders GOLD in dem dare hills, I kin SMELL it!")

I heard that the hour format was forced on Serling by the network and he hated it. (BTW, I always thought the music was perhaps the best thing about the series.)

The latter. Sounds good, though. They were a great band. You sure don't come by that accent just growing up in El Cerrito. I must admit, when I first got into CCR (like many things, in undergrad college) I had to get used to Fogarty's voice first. But it was worth it. How many bands were as good a rock singles band as Creedence? Only a handful, at most.

"Hankenstein"???? But yes, the Mobley box is one of my favorite Mosaics without a doubt.