#rodman serling

[swordofmoonl1ght]

HAPPY 65 YEARS OF THE TWILIGHT ZONE, MR. SERLING! Pilot, "Where Is Everybody?", originally aired October 2nd, 1959 on CBS.

MIKE FERRIS: Hey. Don't go away, up there. Next time, it won't be a dream or a nightmare. Next time, it'll be for real. So don't go away. We'll be up there in a little while.

[perpetuallyb0red]

“Oh my childhood crush was weird” and then it’s something normal like Megatron.

Do you know what my childhood crush was, at age 6-8 to be specific?

Rod Serling. Yes, American mid-20th century screenplay writer Rod Serling.

Rodman fucking Serling.

Don’t ask me why, but I was in ENAMORED with Rod Serling as a child. Not in a “Oh, he made my favorite show that’s so cool” kind of way, but more like a “I want to marry someone who looks and speaks and dresses like and also likely is Rod Serling” way. This was funny for multiple reasons:

1 : I had a crush on someone who had been dead for 30+ years

2 : I, at age 6-8, had a crush on someone the that a good amount of people my age had never heard of, let alone would think is attractive.

3 : I hated, HATED smoking as a kid. Like, I would do the whole fake cough thing/ hold my breath in public when walking past someone smoking. For those that don’t know, Rod Serling smoked. A lot. Like, A LOT a lot. Nearly every photo/ video of him has him either smoking or holding a cigarette. He literally smoked five packs of cigarettes a DAY. NOT FIVE CIGARETTES, FIVE PACKS. Apparently, child me was capable of insane cognitive dissonance back then.

4 : I’m still attracted to him. I genuinely don’t know why but I am😭

[jedivoodoochile]

Remembering Rod Serling

(December 25, 1924 - June 28, 1975)

Rod Serling, byname of Rodman Edward Serling. American writer and producer of television dramas and screenplays who was perhaps best known for his work on the series The Twilight Zone (1959–64). Television writer and producer Rod Serling was born Rodman Edward Serling on December 25, 1924, to a Jewish family in Syracuse, New York. When Serling was 2 years old, he and his family moved to the quiet college town of Binghamton, where his dad opened a grocery store.

After graduating from Binghamton High School, Serling enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II, with the aim of fighting the Nazis in Europe. Contrary to his intention, he ended up becoming a paratrooper in the Pacific theater. During the war, Serling was injured in his knee and wrist at the Battle of Leyte in the Philippines. He was sent home with a Purple Heart and emotional battle scars that would haunt him for the rest of his days.

To compound matters, Serling's return from the war was followed by the devastating loss of his father, who died suddenly of a heart attack. His traumatic experiences would later serve as inspiration for his writing. After the war, Serling attended Antioch College in Ohio.

In 1948, Serling moved to New York City and entered the work world as a struggling freelance radio writer. In 1955, he branched out into television script writing with the TV business drama Patterns. Patterns earned Serling his first Emmy Award.

Serling's second Emmy win came a year later, with the 1956 production of Requiem for a Heavyweight, starring Jack Palance. During the late 1950s, Serling fought the CBS network when they insisted on editing his controversial scripts. CBS got its way and heavily revised his script about lynching, entitled A Town Has Turned to Dust, and another about corruption in a labor union, called The Rank and File. Instead of continuing to fight inevitable censorship, in 1959 Serling turned from realism to the sci-fi fantasy genre, with the iconic series The Twilight Zone. Not only did Serling write the series, but he was also the face of it, serving as its on-screen narrator. The Twilight Zone ran until 1964 and garnered Serling his third Emmy.

In 1968, Serling co-wrote the screenplay for the original movie version of Planet of the Apes. After a stint of screenwriting, he returned to television writing in 1970. Serling spent his later career hosting Rod Serling's Night Gallery and teaching screenwriting at Ithaca College. Over the course of his career, Serling wrote an estimated 252 scripts and won a total of six Emmys.

[pigspeetsandhooflikefeets]

according to the ancient Reddit AMA, Cookie refers to both Poopsie and Mayonnaise as mollys (female cats)

as we know, Mayonnaise is depicted as a Rodman Serling type cat in Split the Room, with a male va (Tim Sniffen)

Mayonnaise is [accidentally?] canonically trans

[saturdaynightlivedork]

Happy 100th birthday to one of my fellow ENFPs, Rodman Edward Serling!

Also, merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah!

[howlgrowlsnarl]

'Nip' It In The Bud

by Rev Dare Cloud Ladies and Gentlemen, the narrator inside your head for this piece will be none other than the late, great Rod Serling. Who is Rod Serling? According to Wikipedia: Rodman Edward Serling (December 25, 1924 – June 28, 1975) was an American screenwriter and television producer best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his anthology television series The Twilight…

[formeroklahoman]

Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling (December 25, 1924 – June 28, 1975)

[owesgodalot]

i have my answer person dead or alive to have dinner with: Rodman Edward Serling

He wins

I’m looking for a director id tweak if i met ….only actors, singers and writers in mind

[mwolf0epsilon]

Okay, the Twilight Zone was an American horror/Science fiction anthology series that started during the 1950s, with Rodman Edward Serling as the original narrator and scriptwriter. The Tower of Terror is a so called "lost episode", involving several hotel guests going missing, that Disney turned into a movie in 1997, about a journalist investigating those events. Is that a good enough summary to explain things for you, about why I saw a comparison with Fractum Somnium?

My pal @british-hero gave me a basic summary last night, but yeah I can see why you'd make the comparison. The one major difference being that Fractos is an actual living being, rather than a haunted building.

[gaelfox]

Weird quesiton; I'm writing a Fake AH Crew thing and it involves Jeremy and Ryan disguised as Detectives Tapp and Roger Davis and I have to know; how would you describe the accents they use? Like, does Tapp have a Boston accent? Does Roger Davis have a Chicago accents? I really don't know.

I honestly do not know either, but Roger Davis always kind of gave me the kind of “Film Noir” narration accent, like Rodman Serling, narrator of the original Twilight Zone series. That kind of cut-and-punctual way of speaking, the deliberation on hard syllables, the kind of voice that would say “I’m cleverer than you” when explaining exactly how he figured out a murder. I think it was a deliberate taught accent too, just for actors during the time. “Mid-Atlantic” i think it as called. Not sure tho. >.>

Back in HS in Theater when our actors had to do accents, there apparently was like an acting YouTube channel that apparently a lot of people learned from pretty well, maybe something like that, an actor’s database or linguistics database that keeps track of these things? Surely I hope they would have examples that you could find the best fit!

[sword-and-nightingale]

Nothing will ever fuck me up more than the fact that the Twilight Zone guy's name is Rodman Edward Serling. That looks like a typo right? I assure you it is not.

[krinsbez]

Random Thought

So, as mentioned, I’ve been on a bit of a Planet of the Apes kick (insofar as one can be said to be doing so when not consuming the primary media), and read all the TVTropes pages related to the franchise, which made me aware of a magnificent bit of wordplay that deserves recognition.

So, in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, James Franco’s character is named Will Rodman. “Rodman” is the full first name of Rod Serling, who wrote the first script for the first film. Said script was then re-written into it’s ultimate form by Michael Wilson, but the iconic ending was Serling’s.

But wait, there’s more. The name “Rodman“ can also be seen as a reference to Roddy McDowall, arguably the face of the franchise’s initial iteration (insofar as that’s possible when you’re always wearing facial prosthetics to look like an ape), having played Cornelius in the first and third films, Galen in the short-lived live action TV series, and of course, originated the role of Caesar in the fourth and fifth films.

And there’s still more, because “Rodman“ is an anagram for “Armando“, as in Senor Armando, the kindly, animal-loving circus owner* from the third and fourth films played by Ricardo Montalban, who raised Caesar after his parents where murdered, in essence playing the same role Will does!

*Which comes off a bit ironic nowadays.

[wumblr]

look i know how this is going to sound but i don’t know where marketwatch has been all my life. do y’all have any idea what a hilarious news source this is

they have an etiquette section, like miss manners, but for money. it’s exactly as horrifying as you would expect something like that to be

i’m rodman serling

[jedivoodoochile]

Hay una quinta dimensión, más allá de lo que el hombre conoce. Es una dimensión tan vasta como el espacio y tan atemporal como el infinito. Está en el punto medio entre la luz y la sombra, entre la ciencia y la superstición, y se encuentra entre el abismo de los temores del hombre y la cumbre de su conocimiento. Esta es la dimensión de la imaginación. Es un área que llamamos la Dimensión Desconocida.

- Rodman Edward Serling (1924-1975)

[marrengo]

Rodman Edward Serling         Dec. 25, 1924 ~ June 28, 1975         In The Zone