![]() The story is set in Chicago, and I grew up in Chicago with Tim Winters as my next-door neighbor.Jack Klugman is one of my favorite actors and Jonathan Winters is another.I’m an excellent pool player–I have a good eye.I chose A Game of Pool as the subject for many reasons… ![]() I waited a long time to make this piece after I conceived it, because I wanted it to be my 156th piece of art since there were 156 Twilight Zone episodes. The first Twilight Zone piece I ever made was A Game of Pool. Jonathan Winters and Jack KlugMan in “A Game of Pool” Besides that, I have autographs from 364 Original Twilight Zone Stars in my collection including a Rod Serling cancelled check. I have a couple of other scripts that I think are originals as well. Mark Zicree told me that it was his opinion that it is a genuine original script. A prized possession is an original Twilight Zone script of “And When the Sky Was Opened” when it was still titled “Disappearing Act.” It was signed by Gloria Pall in a couple of places. So again, a person like me who has these experiences is naturally attracted to the Twilight Zone.Īs a fan I have a significant number of TZ-related items. Once when walking through a used book sale at the mall, my college roommate saw a bookshelf of Boy Scout Handbooks and he said “I used to have one of these.” He reached out, grabbed one of the books, and opened it up to find his name, “Anthony Price” written in it. ![]() Twilight Zone experiences are not limited to me. When I looked inside, it contained a double signed Gerald Ford and Lee Iacoca certificate. One of them looked brighter to me than the others. One time I was in a thrift store and I looked at a collection of hundreds of books. Sometimes, when I look at an object, it seems brighter and I get the sense that there is something special about it. ![]() Fitzgerald watches the faces of those who are about to die glow with light. I also have witnessed a difference in certain objects that’s similar to “The Purple Testament”. We told the Flight Attendant what we’d seen and she assured us that she’d have someone look into it. We agreed to tell the crew about it when we landed, but when we did, the rough landing caused that bolt to fall back into place. Bob pointed it out to me, and the rest of the flight, I felt like William Shatner in “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” - worried that the engine was going to fall off. In another Twilight Zone moment, I was on a flight from Chicago to Philadelphia, and my co-worker (Bob Filipowski) noticed a bolt sticking up at least 8″-10″ above the wing near the closest engine. My whole life, I’ve encountered the strange and unusual, so of course I was attracted to The Twilight Zone. I experienced something similar to the coin landing on its edge in “A Penny For Your Thoughts.” While working for Wrigley Gum in 1986, a coworker and I saw a stick of gum land and stay!”on its short edge, on a moving conveyor. I’ve had some of my own Twilight Zone-type experiences, so I can really relate to it. Throughout my youth, I watched The Twilight Zone and became a big fan. I was scared of the mannequins thinking that they were alive like I’d seen in The Twilight Zone. Sometimes when we picked him up from work, we had to wait in the dark store until he came out. Penny, working in the warehouse at night. I distinctly recall watching “After Hours” and being freaked out. My uncle would turn on the TV to occupy us while my mom and my aunt cared for their mother, and one of the shows we watched was The Twilight Zone. My mother, my brother and I would visit grandmother several times a week. At the time, my grandmother was dying of cancer, and she was living with my aunt about five miles from my parent’s house. I was born in 1967, so The Twilight Zone was only in re-runs by the time I watched it.
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