#famous people on twilight zone

[tuttle-did-it]

The famous 'Time Enough at Last' episode of Twilight Zone starring Burgess Meredith. If you don't know Meredith from one of his four Twilight Zone appearances, the Twilight Zone movie (or Serling's similar show, The Night Gallery) you might know him as The Penguin on Batman 66, Clash of the Titans, Rocky 1-3 and 5, Ironside, Archie Bunker's Place, Gloria, or Grumpy Old Men.

Also, this is one of the 92 episodes of The Twilight Zone that was written by Rod Serling, this is his personal favourite. It was also rated in TV Guide's 100 most memorable moments. Chances are, even if you haven't seen this episode, you know about it (usually because of spoofs from The Simpsons. But please watch this episode, it is enjoyable.)

[vintagetvstars]

Rod Serling Vs. Robert Vaughn

Propaganda

Rod Serling - (The Twilight Zone) - Imagine, if you will, a man taking on issues of totalitarianism and censorship in Cold War America...

Robert Vaughn - (The Man from U.N.C.L.E, The Protectors, Hustle (season 1)) - Although Robert Vaughn always is handsome, he's one of those men whose attractiveness really lives off his facial expressions and also imperfections. You have to see him in action doing subtly silly faces and with his kinda puppy dog eyes and naturally pouty lips. Personally I never know whether I want to hug and comfort him or have him shamelessly flirt with me. And that's hot!

- No Negative Propaganda Please -

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Additional propaganda below the cut

Rod Serling:

"The writer’s role is to menace the public’s conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time." -Rod Serling

Robert Vaughn:

He's hot! He's smart! He got time off being one of the most famous people on tv to go to USC to take night classes and earned a PhD. He was one of, if not the first actors to speak out against the Vietnam War. When the Beatles came to the US the first time they asked to meet him!

[hptrash-lookaway]

My personal hell is like that twilight zone episode where the guy can finally read without being bothered but then his glasses break

You see, I actually love the Drarry ship, and there’s so many fics!! But what I want from the fics and what’s popular is different so it actually makes it more difficult to wade through all the fics to find something I like

(Real quick this is not an insult to fic writers, I fully believe if there’s something a person really wants from a fic then that person should write it, and no one’s entitled to fic authors writing their works differently just to make random people on the internet happy, this is more of venting frustration post)

Like my frustration with a lot of fics is that there’s this emphasis on Harry being a “jock” compared to Draco when. like. they both play the same sport, in the same position, they’re both the same amount of jock

Same issue when they describe body types, yeah they’d have differences in builds because of genetics, and you could argue that with Harry’s love for defense he could be working out more, but I’ve seen so many fics where Harry’s described as more muscular just because of quidditch, which, again. same position. (also quidditch, especially the seeker position, doesn’t really seem like the kind of thing that works out a person’s muscles, leg muscles for holding the broom maybe, but everything else?)

Anyways what I really want from fics is Draco being absolutely smitten with Harry and trying to use like, wooing tactics on him that are so tied to wizard culture that Harry has no fucking idea what’s going on (and maybe also a ton of references to how Harry being famous has affected Wizarding World pop culture)

And do you have any idea how many “courtship” fics there are in the Drarry tag on ao3?? So little compared to the huge amount of fics there are overall 😭

[futa69]

Even though it has never really been directly mentioned or referenced, elements of the ancient astronaut theory have influenced our popular culture for a hundred years. Practically, everything from books, movies, television shows and video games. Since we will never be able to definitely prove it here on Earth and we're also on the verge of going back to the moon, establishing colonies on Mars, mining the asteroid belt and exploring deep space, we might actually find physical evidence of advanced civilizations that existed for over thousands of years ago out there in the galaxy. Whether we like it or not, all of this is going to happen eventually. So, we should definitely have this conversation right now. The future of the human race may very well depend on this discovery.

▪︎Edison's Conquest of Mars (1898)

▪︎The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

▪︎Analog Science Fiction and Fact (1930)

▪︎At the Mountains of Madness (1931)

▪︎Childhood's End (1953)

▪︎Forbidden Planet (1956)

▪︎Quartermass and the Pit (1958)

▪︎The Twilight Zone (1959)

▪︎The Sirens of Titan (1959)

▪︎The Flintstones (1960)

▪︎Doctor Who (1963)

▪︎Hercules Against the Moon Men (1964)

▪︎Known Space (1964)

▪︎Star Trek (1966)

▪︎2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

▪︎Chariots of the Gods (1968)

▪︎The Bible & Flying Saucers (1968)

▪︎Passport to Magonia (1969)

▪︎Horror Express (1972)

��︎Rendezvous with Rama (1973)

▪︎Land of the Lost (1974)

▪︎The Spaceships of Ezekiel (1974)

▪︎The Outer Space Connection (1975)

▪︎Space: 1999 (1975)

▪︎The Sirius Mystery (1976)

▪︎The Earth Chronicles (1976)

▪︎Star Wars (1977)

▪︎Mysteries of the Gods (1977)

▪︎Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

▪︎The Manna Machine (1978)

▪︎Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

▪︎Battlestar Galactica (1978)

▪︎Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978)

▪︎Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)

▪︎Alien (1979)

▪︎Hangar 18 (1980)

▪︎Valis (1981)

▪︎The Thing (1982)

▪︎Xevious (1982)

▪︎Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982)

▪︎The Transformers (1984)

▪︎Cocoon (1985)

▪︎Bio Booster Armor Guyver (1985)

▪︎The Legend of Zelda (1986)

▪︎Predator (1987)

▪︎Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

▪︎Red Dwarf (1988)

▪︎The Gods of Eden (1989)

▪︎Moontrap (1989)

▪︎Spriggan (1989)

▪︎Total Recall (1990)

▪︎Babylon 5 (1993)

▪︎The X-Files (1993)

▪︎Stargate (1994)

▪︎Neon Genesis Evangelion (1994)

▪︎Fingerprints of the Gods (1995)

▪︎Encounter with Tiber (1996)

▪︎Final Fantasy (1997)

▪︎Earth: Final Conflict (1997)

▪︎The Fifth Element (1997)

▪︎Space Island One (1998)

▪︎Naked Pictures of Famous People (1998)

▪︎The Giza Power Plant (1998)

▪︎Heritage Trilogy (1998)

▪︎Dilbert (1999)

▪︎Futurama (1999)

▪︎Star Ancestors (2000)

▪︎Mission to Mars (2000)

▪︎Halo (2001)

▪︎Ice Age (2002)

▪︎Alien vs. Predator (2004)

▪︎The Cygnus Mystery (2006)

▪︎The Orion Zone (2007)

▪︎Mass Effect (2007)

▪︎Assassin's Creed (2007)

▪︎Outlander (2008)

▪︎Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

▪︎Marvel Cinematic Universe (2008)

▪︎Spore (2008)

▪︎Knowing (2009)

▪︎The Fourth Kind (2009)

▪︎Ancient Aliens (2009)

▪︎Borderlands (2009)

▪︎The Great Airship of 1897 (2010)

▪︎Dark Void (2010)

▪︎The Ancient Alien Question (2011)

▪︎Life And Death On Mars (2011)

▪︎Cowboys and Aliens (2011)

▪︎Battle: Los Angeles (2011)

▪︎Paul (2011)

▪︎John Carter (2012)

▪︎Prometheus (2012)

▪︎Iron Sky (2012)

▪︎Man of Steel (2013)

▪︎Jupiter Ascending (2015)

▪︎The Great Wall (2016)

▪︎Life (2017)

▪︎Beyond the Sky (2018)

▪︎Resident Alien (2021)

▪︎Moonfall (2022)

▪︎Prey (2022)

▪︎65 (2023)

[kings-highway]

i keep meaning to ask and then forgetting; how do you come up with your fic (and also chapter) titles? i want to figure out how to give my fics good names for when i want to post them, and yours always sound really cool to me :))

Haha I'm really glad you think my titles are cool! Honestly I feel like it might just be luck that they end up cool.

I do, a lot of the time, really second guess my titles so youre not alone in that. And people who have been reading my work a lot will know that I tend to change titles, sometimes, during writing so...

But ultimately, for me, what it comes down to is using my fic and chapter titles as either a wink to the audience, or a chance to convey meta knowledge about the chapter. Each chapter should have its own mini theme, thesis or subject, and depending on what you want that to be, the fic title can help emphasis it.

I, personally, make a lot of references to literature or history. "The End's" chapter "Hollow Men" refers to the famous poem "The Hollow Men" which you may know most for its quote "This is how the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper." Its a poem about the effects of serious trauma on soldiers, and in that chapter I focus extensively on the effects of trauma on the older generation, but more specifically that chapter title is meant to invoke the poem so that when Ittou (the titular Hollow Man in the story) says "we are the whimper," it comes full circle with the title of the story as Ittou is, of course, describing the end of the world and, well, this is not a story about the end of the world.

This, of course, a REALLY pedantic way of titling things. A more concise example is a later chapter, "Guilt & Conscience" which is titled that way to prime readers into the themes of the story so that Akaashi's actions against Tendou would not be seen as malicious or muddled and were more obviously something he was trying to attone for.

By contrast, when I titled the whole story, I hated it "This is Not the End" not was like, the last thing I could think of because all my other ideas were too long and I fully intended to change in it, and then got VERY attached to it and its themes.

"Time Enough to Risk it All" is a modification of the quote from the Twilight Zone episode, "Time Enough at Last" because I liked the horror of having all the time in the world but no means to enjoy it, and chapter titles like "The Alien Invasion" in Paranormality are meant to draw full circle and signal to the reader that the aforementioned promised aliens are here and closing the loop on Oikawa's plotline. Whereas earlier chapter titles (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) are straight up just meant to signal to the reader the themes. The play of the same name being about one's fear of introspection and acknowledging who or what they might be.

Overall, I'd say my biggest advice is to capitalize your goddamn titles. Personally I think an uncapitalized title is bad. Thats all. give your story the respect it deserves

But no, for real, try to remember that chapter titles are tools for communicating with the reader, and your story is explored not just in the writing, but in the experience of reading it. Putting spoilers in your chapter title, references to emphasize what you want the reader to take away, or lines that you want them to remember, are my personal favourite ways to come up with titles. "Time of Death" in Paranormality, for example, giving a huge spoiler but in service of, hopefully, really amping up the tension and dread of those scenes preceding it. However, sometimes you dont have a chapter with any big important themes, and thats okay. There are tons of chapter titles that can sometimes just be pretty words or nice phrases to pass the time. In "On Borrowed Time," for example, I try and prioritize romantic or aesthetic symbolism For the Vibe. In "Tokyo Underwater" everything is water themed. That, of course, is just another way of using the tool that is chapter titles.

Hope any of this helped!!! Thank you so much for the kinds words <3

[chaifootsteps]

Saw a thing that reminded me of Viv.

There was a Twilight Zone episode ("A nice place to visit") where a man died and went to Hell for being a violent criminal. He mistakingly thinks he's in Heaven. He meets his warden (who he assumes is his guardian angel), and the warden provides the man with everything he ever wanted in life: luxuries, riches, beautiful women, gambling, AND fake robbery scenarios for him to act out his villainous fantasies (all rigged for him to win). But soon, the man realizes he isn't happy, and doesn't understand why; this is more than his wildest dreams, but he feels like he's going crazy. In truth, what he enjoyed was the RISK, the CHANCE OF LOSING, the DANGER of being caught. He misses TAKING from people.

The warden then reveals he was in Hell the whole time. In this Hell, he got handed what he dreamed of… but his dream was twisted and hollow and ruined.

It's not exactly the same, but it kinda made me think of Viv.

Viv dreamed of Broadway, being surrounded by famous stars, having big premiers, fame. Well, she may "have" that stuff now, but it's not going to bring her the satisfaction she WANTS since it's crashing and burning. People are starting to hate her, her shows are hemorraging support fast, Hazbin is an utter trainwreck and getting ripped apart (reviews aren't even here yet), her big premiere was a flop, and those stars will ditch her the moment they can.

Viv has her life's dream right in her hands, but it's not going to be the satisfaction she always expected. Her dream is twisted and ruined. (I can imagine a petulant person like her having an "it's not FAIR, everyone else ruined this for me" kind of reaction to it.)

Maybe the real Hell was the Hell Vivian made for herself along the way.

"A scared, angry little man who never got a break. Now he has everything he's ever wanted, and he's going to have to live with it for eternity, in the twilight zone."

Yeah...that's our girl, right there.

[encyclopika]

Animal Crossing Fish - Explained #241

Brought to you by a marine biologist with some snakey shark...

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Fish are fascinating. Although, yes, I'm very biased, I'm also saying it because the two largest groups of them - the bony fish (Osteichthyes) and the cartilagenous fish (Chonrichthyes) - come in some wild shapes and sizes. And some of these shapes, like that of today's fish, the Frilled Shark, are still just weird as hell.

I'm actually really surprised that ACPC added this shark in, but they did! It was a special catch for the Deep Sea Shark Goals back in July 2023. The art is also so spot on given just how weird this guy is! Look at the teeth in perfect rows! The fins are all the way towards the back of the body! The gills are even frilled (that's where the name comes from!) to the point you can see the red gill tissue inside! It's really great. Although there are two species of Frilled Shark now, and they look very much the same, I'm going to say this is definitely the OG Frilled Shark - Chlamydoselachus anguineus - that everyone knows and loves. (The other species, the Southern African frilled shark (Chlamydoselachus africana) was only described in 2009, so I just doubt it's the one featured here.)

It's hard to find good pictures of a healthy frilled shark since, if you're seeing them at the surface in broad daylight for a good picture, odds are, that guy is on his way out, unfortunately. These are relatively deep-sea sharks that live their lives like a lot of twilight zone animals do - hopping on the Great Diel Migration, where they hang out at depth during the day, but go up to the surface at night to feed.

If there is any shark that is called a "living fossil" it's this one. With the snake-like body and six gills and pretty much a lack of a rostrum, this isn't the first image you would conjure when someone says "shark". And just from my experience talking to people about sharks since I was really small, I've noticed that when people think "shark" they are more than likely imagining the sharks of Galeomorphii, or the Galean Sharks, which include the Great White, the Whale, the Hammerheads, and just your typical shark friends.

The Frilled does not belong here.

By © Citron, CC BY-SA 3.0, (Do you see what I was saying about the teeth being in perfect rows???)

There is a whole other SuperOrder of sharks called the Squalomorphii, or Squalean Sharks. The Squaleans are typically told apart from the Galeans by lacking traits, such as an anal fin (which isn't the case in the frilled shark, so we'll move on), no nictitating membrane over the eyes, and differences in skull morphology. These guys are diverse, weird...and sometimes disrespected. A lot of them are called "dogfish" and where I'm from, dogfish aren't even considered "real sharks". I can't complain too much since I never count dogfish as "seeing sharks" when I'm out at sea. Many of them are small. But this group also includes famous sharks, like the Greenland shark, saw sharks, angel sharks, and the very primitive-looking Cow Sharks, for which the Frilled, we think!, belongs.

Cow Sharks, the Hexanchiformes, are a bunch of weirdos with six or seven gill slits, where other sharks (and most rays!) all have five gill slits. They're typically deep water sharks that can only rarely be studied. One of them, the broadnose sevengill, though, is a resident to San Francisco Bay, California, so it's not necessary to be deep sea when you're a weird, primitive shark. Even so, the Frilled Shark is a weirdo among weirdos, and it's been placed in many other groups of extinct sharks since its discovery. However, genetic analysis done in 2016 puts it in with the Hexanchiformes, but still apart in its very own Family - Chlamydoselachidae. That's what happens when you're a shark that looks and swims like an eel, has trident teeth, and has a weird head with weird jaws. Did I mention these things grow to be 6 feet (2m) long?

And there you have it. Fascinating stuff, no?

[blazehedgehog]

If one decides to start a creative project about their favorite thing, be it fanart, fanfic, fangame etc. , which approach do you prefer, the creatives involved fully dedicating themselves to recreating and recapturing what made the original works...work, or make an active choice to be derivative (this doesn't mean artists are ignorant about the original material, not necessarily) How do you feel about either, and are there any other approach you can think of?

There's this guy who used to post at SFGHQ named Sam Beddoes who now runs Freakzone Games. He's made the official Manos: The Hands of Fate game, he did both AVGN Adventures, he's the project lead on that Toxic Crusaders beat'em'up, etc.

But he's an old guard Sonic head and I've heard him turn up on a couple of Sonic podcasts, specifically to talk fangames, and by his account he got really fed up with the Sonic fangaming scene when everybody became obsessed with perfectly replicating the Genesis games, because to him, all the creativity and magic went away.

I remember hearing that and both agreeing and disagreeing with him. And I have enough thoughts about it that I've actually considered doing a video about it, and about fangaming overall.

I think there is a stigma to replicating something perfectly that's very adjacent to people who are concerned about young artists who start out by tracing pictures other people have drawn. Plagiarism is a real, legitimate problem. But it's only a problem if you lie about tracing.

I'm of the mind that if you're starting out drawing, half the problem is just learning control. Tracing can be a valuable tool in helping you to understand hand motions and give you a perspective on the construction of an image. For the earliest beginners, I don't think there's any shame in starting out by tracing. It's building muscle memory. Just don't say you drew it.

Similarly, my game development skills went way, way, way up about the time I started to analyze and perfectly replicate existing games. Like, the long canceled Sonic Forever project used an early enough version of the Sonic Worlds codebase that I had to read the Sonic Retro Physics Guide and use their data on how to add Knuckles in from scratch. My code matched how he worked in the Genesis games almost 1:1, because it was largely me just interpreting the values into something Clickteam Fusion could understand.

Something similar happened when, in 2012, I started (and never finished) a remake of my famous Mario Blue Twilight DX fangame. That's when I started really paying attention to how the source games worked so I could get a better sense of how a Mario game needed to "feel" in order to be correct.

And that trend continued with every fangame project I worked on following that, like when I figured I could make my own version of Sonic 2's Hidden Palace Zone, since I wasn't happy with the Retro Engine version. The idea was to be accurate above all else. In some cases, I'd even watch recordings of official gameplay in slow motion just so I could see exactly how the game was created, and in some cases, count frame by frame the duration of certain actions.

And all of this just makes me think of when I showed a friend my game jam game, OverBite. He complimented me on how nice the controls felt, in that kind of backhanded way where he said "When did you learn to make games feel so nice?"

Because if you go back to those really early games of mine, they all feel like garbage to control. And I attribute it to putting in a lot of time pulling apart the nuts and bolts of real retro games and putting a microscope up to why they work the way they do. Deconstructing all of their little nuances and sub-states and then trying to put it all back together again in a different programming language.

You learn a lot when you're forced to stop and understand why a piece of code exists in the way it does. Why there are all these little edge cases that you never notice but still exist to make a game feel just a little better.

At the end of the day, yes, Sam was right. Games need to have creativity and seeking out the perfect replication of the Sega Genesis Sonic games can feel somewhat futile. Every SAGE for the last ten years, there will be at least three games that instantly vanish from my memory because they are basic, plain Sonic Worlds Delta fangames with no style of their own. They just want to make Sonic 4 and we've had a lot of different Sonic 4s by now.

But the thing about learning is, you gotta learn the rules before you learn why and where to break them, because breaking (or at least bending) all of those boring, standardized rules is where your personal style starts to emerge, and that personal style is ultimately what people are going to be interested in at the end of the day.

So I think it is vitally important to start at 1:1 exact recreation and once you've made a comfortable replica, only then should you start asking yourself what you'd change and why. Make sure you understand the material before venturing further. You gotta learn to do it right first.

[lesbiancharliedalton]

I get needlessly annoyed when people on here make jokes about The Twilight Zone because no one on here has ever watched an actual episode of the show. Like maybe they saw one of the most famous ones one time for like. School or something and that's it. Like no one's approximation of an episode ever comes close. And no one knows how Rod Serling spoke either. I just saw a post with several people doing an impression of some other author if their stories were in the same format and each one ended with "Hi, I'm (name)" he didn't do that. He didn't say hi I'm Rod Serling. I'm so annoyed!!!!!

[princesssarisa]

"Faerie Tale Theatre" Posthumous Reunion: The Stars' Final Resting Places

Some people might think I'm obsessed with death. A minor hobby of mine is to research celebrities' final resting places, via the website Find a Grave and the YouTube channel Hollywood Graveyard. And I like perusing themed guides to famous graves. For example, Hollywood Graveyard's videos themed to Christmas, Halloween, the cast and crew of The Wizard of Oz, cast and crew members of The Twilight Zone, etc., or Find A Grave's "Posthumous Reunion" pages for famous movie and TV show casts, sports teams, etc.

I decided to create a similar guide for the cast of Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre. Sadly, all too many stars of that cult classic series are no longer with us. Here's a guide (with links to Find a Grave pages) to the various places where those stars are buried, in case anyone here might like to visit a few someday.

@ariel-seagull-wings, @thealmightyemprex

Aughaval Cemetery – Westport, Ireland

*Joseph Maher (Narrator, Cinderella/Sultan, Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp)

Blue Grass Memorial Gardens and Mausoleum – Nicholasville, Kentucky, USA

*Harry Dean Stanton (Rip van Winkle, Rip van Winkle)

Eternal Hills Memorial Park – Oceanside, California, USA

*Karen Black (The Sea Witch, The Little Mermaid)

Fairview Cemetery – Linden, Michigan, USA

*Max Wright (Prince Heinrick, The Dancing Princesses)

Fir Grove Cemetery – Ada, Oregon, USA

*Bridgette Andersen (Gretel, Hansel and Gretel)

Forest Cemetery – Circleville, Ohio, USA

*Conchata Ferrell (Mother, Thumbelina)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills – Los Angeles, California, USA

*Carrie Fisher (Thumbelina, Thumbelina)

*Fred Willard (Paul Pig, The Three Little Pigs)

*Brock Peters (The Ogre, Puss in Boots)

*Pat McCormick (King Fredrico, The Princess and the Pea)

Genola Rural Cemetery – Los Angeles, California, USA

John P. Ryan (Hendrick Hudson, Rip Van Winkle)

Green Hill Cemetery – Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA

*James Noble (King Rupert, Cinderella)

Hillside Memorial Park – Culver City, California, USA

*Leonard Nimoy (The Evil Magician, Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp)

*Dick Shawn (The Emperor, The Emperor’s New Clothes)

Hollywood Forever Cemetery – Los Angeles, California, USA

*Paul Reubens (Pinocchio, Pinocchio)

Holy Cross Cemetery – Culver City, California, USA

*Chris Penn (Will Tussenbrook, Rip Van Winkle)

Lake Lawn Park Cemetery and Mausoleum – New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

*Severn Darden (Farmer Silas, The Princess Who Had Never Laughed)

Lincoln Cemetery – Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, USA

*Jean Stapleton (The Giantess, Jack and the Beanstalk/The Fairy Godmother, Cinderella)

Mount Shasta Memorial Park – Mount Shasta, California, USA

*Brandis Kemp (Mama Bear, Goldilocks and the Three Bears/voice of Nadine Wolf, The Three Little Pigs)

Mount Sinai Memorial Park – Los Angeles, California, USA

*Frances Bay (Granny, Little Red Riding Hood)

*Georgia Brown (Maggie, The Emperor’s New Clothes)

Mountain View Cemetery – Oakland, California, USA

*Jack Fletcher (The Wizard, Rumpelstiltskin)

Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery – Hillside, Illinois, USA

*George Kirby (The King, Puss in Boots)

Polizzi Generosa Cemetery – Palermo, Sicily, Italy

*Vincent Sciavelli (The Priest, Pinocchio)

Riverside Cemetery – Old Saybrook, Connecticut, USA

*Art Carney (Morty, The Emperor’s New Clothes)

Riverview Cemetery – Hamilton, Montana, USA

*Hoyt Axton (The Ranger, Goldilocks and the Three Bears)

Rose Hills Memorial Park – Whittier, California, USA

*Keye Luke (Imperial Doctor, The Nightingale)

Saint Charles Cemetery – East Farmingdale, New York, USA

*Ray Sharkey (Grand Vizier, Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp)

Saint Peter Churchyard – Blackland, Wiltshire, England

*David Hemmings (Narrator, Thumbelina/The Reindeer, The Snow Queen)

Saint Voldoldymyr Ukrainian Cemetery – Oakville, Ontario, Canada

*Gregory Hines (Edgar, Puss in Boots)

Valley Oaks Memorial Park – Los Angeles, California, USA

*Stephen Furst (Peter Pig, The Three Little Pigs)

Westwood Village Memorial Park – Los Angeles, California, USA

*Eve Arden (The Stepmother, Cinderella)

*James Coburn (The G**sy, Pinocchio)

*Doris Roberts (Mother Pig, The Three Little Pigs)

*Tim Conway (The Mayoral Candidate, Rip Van Winkle)

*Frank Zappa (Attila, The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers)

*Lu Leonard (Mrs. Toad, Thumbelina)

*Gena Rowlands (The Witch, Rapunzel)

William Henry Lee Memorial Cemetery – Los Angeles, California, USA

*Beatrice Straight (Queen Veronica, The Princess and the Pea)

Cremated, Ashes Held Privately or Scattered

*Shelley Duvall (series creator and hostess/The Miller's Daughter, Rumpelstiltskin/Rapunzel, Rapunzel/voice of the Nightingale, The Nightingale/Snow White's Mother, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

*Robin Williams (Prince Robin, The Tale of the Frog Prince)

*Hervé Villechaize (Rumpelstiltskin, Rumpelstiltskin)

*Christopher Reeve (The Prince, Sleeping Beauty)

*Treat Williams (Prince Andrew, The Little Mermaid)

*Brian Dennehy (King Neptune, The Little Mermaid)

*Klaus Kinski (The Beast, Beauty and the Beast)

*Roddy McDowell (Narrator, Rapunzel)

*Christopher Lee (King Vladimir, The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers)

*Dana Hill (Princess Amanda, The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers)

*Vincent Price (The Magic Mirror, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs/Narrator, The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers)

*David Warner (The Innkeeper, The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers)

*Jeff Corey (Father, The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers)

*Jack Riley (Sexton, The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers)

*Ned Beatty (The King, Rumpelstiltskin)

*Roy Dotrice (Peter Vanderdonk, Rip Van Winkle/The King, The Dancing Princesses)

*Zelda Rubinstein (Old Woman, The Dancing Princesses)

*Burgess Meredith (Mr. Mole, Thumbelina)

*Lee Remick (The Snow Queen, The Snow Queen)

*Lance Kerwin (Kai, The Snow Queen)

*Linda Manz (The Robber Girl, The Snow Queen)

*René Auberjonois (King Ulrich, The Tale of the Frog Prince/King Boris, Sleeping Beauty)

*Sally Kellerman (Queen Natasha, Sleeping Beauty)

*Barrie Ingham (Finance Minister, The Emperor’s New Clothes/Tutor, The Princess Who Had Never Laughed)

*Richard Libertini (King Murray, Sleeping Beauty)

*Alex Karras (Papa Bear, Goldilocks and the Three Bears)

*Katherine Helmond (Jack’s Mother, Jack and the Beanstalk)

*John Vernon (Father, Little Red Riding Hood)

*Mako (Gardener/Minister, The Nightingale)

*Billy Curtis (Barnaby, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

*Rae Allen (Aladdin’s Mother, Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp)

*Howard Hesseman (The King, The Princess Who Had Never Laughed)

*Jackie Vernon (Phlegmatic Jack, The Princess Who Had Never Laughed)

*Albert Hague (Nicholas Vedder, Rip Van Winkle)

*James Earl Jones (Genies of the Lamp and the Ring, Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp)

Donated to Medical Science

*Ian Abercrombie (The Royal Cobbler, The Dancing Princesses)

Unknown (Not Publicly Revealed or No Information Online)

*Carl Reiner (Geppetto, Pinocchio)

*Alan Arkin (Bo, The Emperor’s New Clothes)

*Peter Risch (Bruno, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs/Herald, Puss in Boots)

*Lou Carry (Bertram, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

*Stephen Elliott (Father, Beauty and the Beast)

[surfindead82]

A Weekend of Horrors. Los Angeles, 2002

One of my favorite memories, ever, was when I attended Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors in 2002. It was my first horror convention and it rocked my fucking world! Walking in the convention center, I was filled with geeky joy. Like really, I spazzed, big time! It was overwhelming to witness what seemed like thousands of other horror fans young and old wearing shirts with images from domestic and foreign slasher, monster, and zombie flicks. Hundreds of vendors selling horror movies from around the world on VHS and the newest media format, DVD. Tables were set up blanketed in horror movie swag! I knew right then my measly bank account would not be safe this weekend. It really wasn't as I recall I overdrew a significant amount, no regrets!

There was a moment when the noisy crowd seemed to quiet in a wave headed right towards me, and I wondered what was going on? As the silence spread in my direction, so did the people part. That's when I saw. . .him. Bruce Campbell, THE KING of horror movie royalty, was parting this crowd like Moses parting the Red Sea in that old movie about rules. Bruce was the main reason I was attending. He was my favorite actor, from my favorite film series, The Evil Dead. I had actually written Mr. Campbell several years earlier when I gained access to the internet using a free AOL trial. I wrote, “Dear Bruce Campbell, I would like you to send me your autograph.” Months later I received a post card with a black and white publicity photo from when he starred in the FOX television series, Brisco County Jr. On the back was written, “Hey” followed by his autograph. SWOON. Eventually, he passed right in front of me, followed by convention staff. I nearly fainted.

Bruce was there this weekend to give a panel talking about the paperback edition of his autobiography, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor, as well as promoting his upcoming film projects, Buba Ho-Tep, and his directorial debut, The man with the Screaming Brain.

After I composed myself from basking in Bruce glory, I went to meet more horror icons, as well as buy some merch and movies. I found a booth ran by Rotten-Cotton, who specialized in making officially licensed shirts, stickers, and patches of Italian and B-grade horror movies. I bought a Return of the Living Dead shirt with a drawing of the character Trash, and a button up Dawn of The Dead work shirt. At different booths, I purchased DVD copies of Battle Royale, and Ichi The Killer (probably bootlegs). At another table, I bought a VHS copy of a Japanese movie I'd never heard of called Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies (definitely a bootleg).

There were a boat-load of horror celebs I wanted to meet. I started with Heather Langenkamp, the first Freddy Krueger final girl, from A Nightmare On Elm Street. It was an honor to meet her. She was really sweet, and I stepped on her foot when standing for a photo op with her. I moved on to Bill Moseley who was famous for playing Leatherface's brother, “Chop-Top” in Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Part 2. He had already filmed Rob Zombie's directorial debut House of a 1000 Corpses, but it was in limbo at the time and hadn't been released yet. He had us cracking up, yapping in his Chop-Top voice. Furthermore, he kindly signed a photo with one of his famous TCM2 lines, “Lick my plate, you dog dick!”

There were several famous people attending not as guests, but as fans. I spotted, director of The Blues Brothers and Twilight Zone the Movie, John Landis. Porn star Ron Jeremy (yuck). Mick Garris who adapted many Steven king books to film, and Michael Berryman, who starred in The Hills Have Eyes, Weird Science, Star Trek IV: The Voyage home. Actually, I later found out Michael was a guest. I just happened to see him walking around and asked if he'd take a picture with me. He did, with his large hands across my neck, mock strangelingly.

After I was released from Michael Berryman's clutches, I was looking around just taking everything in when I made eye contact with someone very recognizable, whom I had no idea would be attending. Glenn Shadix! Most known for his role as Otho in Beetlejuice. I was stoked and he could tell! He gave me a huge smile, and gestured me over. I exclaimed something like, “oh man, I had no idea you were going to be here! I love you!” Glenn laughed and we talked for a few minutes. He was an angel of a human. I was more than a bit heartbroken when he passed away in 2010. Rest in piece, Glenn, I still freaking love you.

I met some legends that weekend. George A, Romero, the man who invented the modern zombie. Who made the classics, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead. I like his other movies too, Martin, The Crazies, Season of the Witch etc. I was sure to catch his panel discussion, where he told us about his being fired from directing the Resident Evil movie. He said it was because after The Matrix became a hit the studio wanted him to rewrite his script and make a more action packed, more "Matrixy" Resident Evil film. He told them her doesn't make those types of movies. In the same room as George was make up effects legend and actor Tom Savini. Of course, I appreciate his contributions to gore and make up effects for Friday the 13th, Dawn and Day of the Dead, and Maniac. But I was psyched to meet Sex Machine! The leather clad biker with the cock revolver, from one of my favorite movies, From Dusk Till Dawn!

There was a moment I truly wish I had used my camera for. I saw Tom summon George Romero over to him to show him an action figure made after his biker bandit char-acter from Dawn of the Dead. There were these two legends of horror in the middle of this room, smiling ear to ear, giggling like children at a toy. I felt like I was the only person besides them who witnessed this precious 60 seconds.

It was now time to meet Bruce Campbell, formally. I bought a copy of his book for him to sign. It went like this. I walked up to his table and said, “Hi, can you sign this?” I handed him the paperback, he replied “easy-peasy.” and signed it Writing “Hey, Brad” followed by his familiar signature, just like the one from that postcard years before.

So star-struck was I, that I'd forgotten to have him sign a photo from Army Darkness I bought for my mom. So I later got back in line and had him sign, “To, Julie. . . Gimme Some Sugar.” A favorite quote from Army. Bruce's panel discussion was one of the funniest events I've seen in my life. It was beyond brilliant! My favorite moment was when he reenacted the scene from Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, where his hand, after being bitten by his girlfriend turned deadite, becomes possessed, and starts attacking him. Here was Bruce punching himself, pulling his hair and even did a front flip, landing hard on his back!

There was a Q&A session where he addressed the most important question. When the hell was Evil Dead 3 coming out?! He told us, his loyal fans, that the problem was there was no money in it since the third film Army of Darkness was a theatrical flop. However, he would reprise his role as Ash if he were given the opportunity to do so. We never did get an Evil Dead 3. We got an amazing series that lasted 3 seasons, Ash VS Evil Dead.

After the convention wrapped up there was a cocktail party with Elvira Mistress of the Dark. We couldn't afford that, so instead we went to a rock and roll wrestling show. Featuring a luchador wrestling match followed by a performance by The Ghastly ones. Topping off the bill was a Misfits tribute band called Plan 9. It was a great way to end the day. I've been fortunate to attend a few other horror conventions since then. Met more remarkable horror celebs, but that Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors in August of '02 is a highlight of my life!

-Surfindead

More info on that Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors here:

[herotting]

ACTUALLY. upon further reconsideration ... i will say, yes, aaron IS worse than bill. a while ago i said i couldn't decide. buuuuhhht... thinking about it? yeah, it's aaron. which is funny to say because of how much Better and "grown" aaron acts compared to bill, and well, bill's bill.

but like recently i made a post providing evidence that bill does care about the club. but aaron...? doesn't really seem to show the same compassion toward his friends. in fact, ironically, everyone in the collective seems to be far worse than the club counterparts.

like compare the first comic to the collective one (which was supposed to be a Parody of the first one)

in the first comic, bill was never even violent in it. in fact, it was josh who started strangling jerry because the rest of the club was laughing at him. but jay starts strangling aaron because aaron fucking stabbed him, and thus started the escalation. and yes, perhaps he felt insulted by jay but like... that's still not an excuse to stab someone.

AND. again, aaron also started that because all jay told him to do was just shut up. so everything jay said & did was arguably justified because aaron was definitely the first instigator -- verbally and physically.

in faaaact. bill wasn't really all that violent in the first issue. actually bill isn't really all that violent in the comics at all. (prior 2012! lols!) if you look back at the comics, it was usually josh who lashed out in physical violence (granted bill deserves it, but still!) the twilight zone issue was the only time bill started the violence but again, he was hopped up on drugs and sleep deprived. MEANWHILE, aaron not only started the physical altercation by literally stabbing someone, but he continues to threaten to stab people.

of course, technically like bill was in that twilight zone issue -- aaron is also under the influence. but the thing is. aaron regularly does drugs or drinks despite how it makes him act. bill was oblivious and was only trying to stay awake.

after the fight, bill was very upset and admits to being nervous about the whole thing. meanwhile aaron didn't care. in fact, he remains spiteful and angry at them -- thinking lowly of them even when they're not around. (of course, aaron received worse than bill did -- having literally been beaten up by the others. but still!)

not to mention but aaron seems to... lack any good qualities bill has? which sounds super funny 'cos it's bill. BUT. say what you will about bill's unhealthy obsessions, but at least he progresses in his collections and will do anything for it. whereas aaron? completely lacks passion.

he claims he wants to be a comic artist & writer, yet don't really seem to care about drawing much? as he stated here -- they've been working on their comic projects for six months and only did five pages. there are four men. so this implies in half a year, they've all only done one page each -- with someone maybe doing two pages. the mentioning of a punk zine, hong kong film zine, and a band also implies that aaron... perhaps lacks passion for most of the shit he does, but instead is just chasing after get rich / famous quick schemes.

even when they do start drawing, it only lasts less than a half hour before they take a break. for any artist, you'll know this is barely any time, and thus, barely any progress made lol.

speaking of which -- it seems like all aaron does is get high and/or drink rather than actually doing anything. and yes, bill doesn't really do anything either. that's the point -- bill has no job and is also wasting his life away. but... at least with bill, you can say he DOES technically have hobbies. he does play games, read and watch stuff, has collections

bill has a very impressive (if not concerning) collection, and he's oftentimes successful in building it. bill as a lot to show for his hobbies. aaron? has barely anything. what i mean is that bill has determination, aaron doesn't.

of course, aaron's lack of passion might come from the fact that he DOESN'T care about anything he does and is actually, like bill, still a comic fan -- but hides that passion out of shame / a sense of approval (?)

but in the end, i still say aaron is worse. aaron has no genuine friends, aaron has terrible addictions, said addictions causes aaron to be even more violent, aaron is also more cowardly -- to scared to be himself, aaron lacks passion + determination + focus.

[devilboydogman]

HELP

I just unironically did Big Bang Theory Autism yapping at my mom after briefly being in the room while she was watching SNL...

They had a kinda stupid Twilight Zone sketch on and one of the characters had been named Sam Stanley and... I know there are many actual real people with that name, like famous ones, but the Twin Peaks autism forced me to say, and I quote, from the kitchen as she sat in the living room... "They stole the name Sam Stanley."

"I don't know who that is." "That's because he is a character form the 1992 David Lynch film 'Fire Walk With Me'. He is an FBI argent investigating the death of Theresa Banks. It is a prequel to the series Twin Peaks, aired in 1990." I received no verbal response to this

[futa69]

You're already a fan of the ancient astronaut theory.

Here's a list of books, movies, TV shows, and video games featuring ancient astronauts. (revised)

▪︎Edison's Conquest of Mars (1898)

▪︎The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

▪︎Analog Science Fiction and Fact (1930)

▪︎At the Mountains of Madness (1931)

▪︎Childhood's End (1953)

▪︎Forbidden Planet (1956)

▪︎Quartermass and the Pit (1958)

▪︎The Twilight Zone (1959)

▪︎The Sirens of Titan (1959)

▪︎The Flintstones (1960)

▪︎Doctor Who (1963)

▪︎Hercules Against the Moon Men (1964)

▪︎Known Space (1964)

▪︎Star Trek (1966)

▪︎2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

▪︎Chariots of the Gods (1968)

▪︎The Bible & Flying Saucers (1968)

▪︎Horror Express (1972)

▪︎Rendezvous with Rama (1973)

▪︎Land of the Lost (1974)

▪︎The Spaceships of Ezekiel (1974)

▪︎The Outer Space Connection (1975)

▪︎Space: 1999 (1975)

▪︎The Sirius Mystery (1976)

▪︎The Earth Chronicles (1976)

▪︎Star Wars (1977)

▪︎Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

▪︎The Manna Machine (1978)

▪︎Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

▪︎Battlestar Galactica (1978)

▪︎Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978)

▪︎Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)

▪︎Alien (1979)

▪︎Hangar 18 (1980)

▪︎Valis (1981)

▪︎The Thing (1982)

▪︎Xevious (1982)

▪︎Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982)

▪︎The Transformers (1984)

▪︎Cocoon (1985)

▪︎Bio Booster Armor Guyver (1985)

▪︎The Legend of Zelda (1986)

▪︎Predator (1987)

▪︎Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

▪︎Red Dwarf (1988)

▪︎The Gods of Eden (1989)

▪︎Moontrap (1989)

▪︎Spriggan (1989)

▪︎Total Recall (1990)

▪︎Babylon 5 (1993)

▪︎The X-Files (1993)

▪︎Stargate (1994)

▪︎Neon Genesis Evangelion (1994)

▪︎Fingerprints of the Gods (1995)

▪︎Encounter with Tiber (1996)

▪︎Final Fantasy (1997)

▪︎Earth: Final Conflict (1997)

▪︎The Fifth Element (1997)

▪︎Space Island One (1998)

▪︎Naked Pictures of Famous People (1998)

▪︎Dilbert (1999)

▪︎Futurama (1999)

▪︎Star Ancestors (2000)

▪︎Mission to Mars (2000)

▪︎Halo (2001)

▪︎Ice Age (2002)

▪︎Alien vs. Predator (2004)

▪︎The Orion Zone (2007)

▪︎Mass Effect (2007)

▪︎Assassin's Creed (2007)

▪︎Outlander (2008)

▪︎Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

▪︎Marvel Cinematic Universe (2008)

▪︎Spore (2008)

▪︎Knowing (2009)

▪︎The Fourth Kind (2009)

▪︎Ancient Aliens (2009)

▪︎Borderlands (2009)

▪︎The Great Airship of 1897 (2010)

▪︎Dark Void (2010)

▪︎The Ancient Alien Question (2011)

▪︎Cowboys and Aliens (2011)

▪︎Battle: Los Angeles (2011)

▪︎Paul (2011)

▪︎John Carter (2012)

▪︎Prometheus (2012)

▪︎Iron Sky (2012)

▪︎Man of Steel (2013)

▪︎Beyond the Sky (2018)

▪︎Resident Alien (2021)

▪︎Moonfall (2022)

▪︎Prey (2022)

▪︎65 (2023)

[k20spock]

WHCIH TWILIGHT ZONE EPISODE. PLEASE

"It's a Good Life" which is in the original 1959 twilight zone. not exactly like the post but it's about a six year old boy who can manipulate reality at will who was never taught any sort of discipline because people were frightened of him, and he doesn't get why. he's isolated his entire town from the rest of the world and disappears anything that upsets him, which includes negative thoughts. he's six and he just wants everyone to be happy. it's one of the most famous and in my opinion one of the best episodes in the show but it's fucking bleak. honestly people should ask me about the twilight zone more i've seen the entirety of the original series with my dad and siblings and it's real neat :)

[purplecowbell]

Black Mirror: A Boring Twilight Zone

When I tell people I love The Twilight Zone, both the original series and the reboot, the first thing out of their mouths is, “You should check out Black Mirror.” I suppress a cringe, thank them for their recommendation, and then never follow through. I don’t because I’ve already tried it, and I don’t think it compares.

I understand why people keep comparing Black Mirror to The Twilight Zone; it’s certainly a more contemporary perspective on issues (at least if you ignore the more recent reboots like many people seem to do), but the actual core of the shows, how and why they depict their speculative worlds, are very different. I apologize for using an insulting title to the Black Mirror fans, but for someone who’s looking for The Twilight Zone, it just does not scratch the right itch for me.

In The Twilight Zone, the writers cover a wide variety of topics. They explore mob mentality, our perception of aliens, and “the other.” They explore tragic stories of luck and ignorant selfishness, and praise heroic stories with martyrs and rebels. My favorite types of Twilight Zone episodes are ones in which there’s no strong message, just Rod Sterling shows up at the end with, “Well, wasn’t that crazy?” There was one episode (“A World of His Own”) where a playwright had a god-like ability to create people and destroyed his old wife to make a new one, and when Rod Sterling starts to narrate at the end, the author interrupts to destroy Rod Sterling. But The Twilight Zone also isn’t afraid of covering serious issues, whether cynical or optimistic, individual or societal. The show can jump from an episode about the mentality of witch hunts and colonization (“Will the Real Martian Stand Up?”) to one about the value of education against tyrannies and the importance of heroic public acts (“The Obsolete Man”). This wide range of diversity allows The Twilight Zone to cover an entire spectrum of imagination and the human condition, whether silly or profound. When The Twilight Zone comments on societal ills (which Black Mirror is famous for), it pressures you slightly on what was already there and asks, “Do you really want this to get worse?” Black Mirror, on the other hand, crushes you with the framework of structural problems without relent.

Black Mirror focuses on the problems of technology, and a focus is fine; it allows you to really get into the granular details. But unfortunately (for The Twilight Zone fans) the exploration of technology is through a singular cynical lens. Every single story is, without fail, a dystopia, for both those who “deserve” it and those who don’t. Some people have argued that this consistency makes Black Mirror intrinsically better, but I don’t read or watch anthologies for repetition. The characters are less “characters” and more cogs in the machine that happen to be human-shaped. No story satisfyingly breaks from the horrific status quo, and the show usually depicts a snapshot of people that could be happening an infinite number of times in other places of the world. Many times the story ends on just the note: “And then everything continues.” The only episodes that I felt were deviations from this were “The Waldo Moment,” “Nosedive,” and “USS Callister.” These are the only episodes where either the characters felt like they mattered (The Waldo Moment), where the ending showed some upside to deviation from the system (Nosedive) or a combination of the two (USS Callister). The emotional spectrum of the characters ranges from black, to gray, to brown, to artificial-happy-yellow. For a show set in the 21st century, its characters are sometimes more black and white than the Twilight Zone in the 1960s. But that’s not a sin; you’re not supposed to worry about complex characters in the anthology episode format. The lack of complexity does, however, clash with the episode length. Most episodes last around an hour, frequently longer, and watching the same emotional shades in the same episode over and over again without disruption for an hour is like watching paint dry. The problem here isn’t all of what I listed; these are mostly personal preferences that some may enjoy. The problem is that even with these qualities and differences, Black Mirror is still being recommended to Twilight Zone fans.

Just because a work of media is of the same format (speculative anthology) does not mean it satisfies the same itch. If someone watched The Twilight Zone for the dystopian episodes like “The Obsolete Man,” or “It’s a Good Life,” or warnings of technology like “The Lateness of the Hour,” (which is a hilarious episode to take as a serious critique against technology), then the connection between Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone is natural to them. But The Twilight Zone had more episodes than those three. Ask 100 different Twilight Zone fans which episode stands out the most to them, and you’ll probably get 50 different answers (I’m not going to pretend some episodes aren’t more popular than others). Ask 100 Black Mirror fans which episode stands out the most, and they’ll probably say, “The one where a politician has sex with a pig.” Black Mirror has two tools at its disposal: shock value and contemporary despair. I have no interest in being bludgeoned to death with either of these.

I ask that Black Mirror fans try to understand their relationship with the genre. Just because The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror are the most popular shows in said genre does not mean they share additional similarities. I also ask that they understand that Black Mirror is not an objective upgrade from The Twilight Zone just because Black Mirror’s differences are more enjoyable for them. I suggest that fans of both shows watch other series to better understand what would actually be relevant to recommend, instead of just suggesting one show to fans of the other. Shows like American Horror Story, The Outer Limits, Solos, and Love Death & Robots might really scratch an itch you didn’t even know you had.