A ROD SERLING CHRISTMAS - Sky Room Talk with Phillip Harwood

Showings

Sky Room Café Mon, Dec 16, 2019 7:30 PM
The Sky Room Cafe will be CLOSING at 5 PM the evening of this event.

Description

SKY ROOM TALK with Philip Harwood

A ROD SERLING CHRISTMAS

Monday, 12/16 at 7:30 pm
Members $12 | Public $17

The Sky Room Cafe will be CLOSING at 5 PM the evening of this event.

As we close out the year celebrating the 60th anniversary of The Twilight Zone, we turn to Serling and the merriest of holidays: Christmas. Although he was Jewish, Serling enjoyed “the wondrous magic of Christmas” (Arlen Schumer). In these television broadcasts Serling tears away the tinsel and beauty of Christmas, and goes deep into the inner soul of the human spirit. In Night of The Meek, Art Carney (Ed Norton on The Honeymooners) portrays a drunken and disgusted department store Santa, who suddenly finds a ray of hope in a sea of despair, one Christmas. He sets out to fulfill his one wish - to see the less fortunate inherit the bounties of Christmas. Serling wrote A Carol For Another Christmas as a plea for global cooperation, developed to promote the United Nations, Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz (his only TV film), it is a dark modernization of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.