"Christmas is more than barging up and down department store aisles and pushing people out of the way. Christmas is another thing finer than that. Richer, finer, truer, and it should come with patience and love, charity, compassion." ~Rod Serling

My dad said that he had one basic premise for his script, "Requiem for a Heavyweight." And that was: "Everyone can and must search for their own personal dignity.
Photo: Mickey Rooney with Rod Serling

"We have a need for an enlightened, watchful articulate opposition. We have no need for semi-secret societies who are absolutist, dictatorial and would substitute for a rule of law and reason an indiscriminate assault on the institutions that must be held sacrosanct."
~Rod Serling

Anne Serling
@AnneSerling

"If you stick good men into a mob, take away their names, faces, identity, take away their responsibility, they're no longer good men."

Rod Serling: "The Loner"

"Portrait of a bush-league Führer...like some goose-stepping predecessors, he searches for something to explain his hunger, and to rationalize why a world passes him by without saluting. In his own twisted and distorted lexicon, he calls it faith, strength, truth."
Rod Serling

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.” ―
Joan Didion

Hello Bluesky.
Goodbye to the other place.

An aging gangster's "last big job" seldom goes as planned. Max le Menteur (Jean Gabin) is the weary French wiseguy who must choose between fortune and friendship in "Touchez pas au grisbi" ("Don't touch the loot") (1954). As usual, love complicates criminal enterprise. #filmnoir