What was so ineffably cool about the Twilight Zone was: most of the time, it was regular people moving around in the regular, recognizable world—a…
Posts published by “Eleanor Cooney”
Where exactly did this disrespect for authority, this all-around cheekiness, come from? Well, between prime 50s TV guys like Groucho Marx and Allen Funt, what…
There was no need to feel sorry for anyone on another famous show whose central theme was munificence. As long as people were strictly fictional…
A good sharp sense of the absurd is a great asset in life, and there was a lush crop of 50s TV shows ready and…
There were plenty of two-legged heroes, of course, though they too relied heavily on four-footed stalwarts and tended to live their lives on the fringes…
Remember that first television appearing in your house in the early 50s? That tiny screen in the middle of a big clunky cube? Didn’t it…
I don't keep a ringing phone in my bedroom. Whatever it is, unless it's an invasion from Mars, in which case it wouldn't matter, can…
Arrangements are made to send her back to the home and put her in hospice care there. This is good: she goes back into the…
I arrive at the little nursing home to visit Berna. In the foyer is a TV. Three old women, two in wheelchairs and one propped…
2008: I'm driving a stolen car. Not technically stolen, but it feels stolen. My guilty conscience clatters along everywhere I go in the car, like…