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Posts published by “Eleanor Cooney”

The Shadow Box (Part 7)

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…

The Shadow Box (Part 5)

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…

The Shadow Box (Part 4)

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…

The Shadow Box (Part 3)

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…

The Shadow Box (Part 2)

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…

The Shadow Box (Part 1)

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…

No Country For Old Women (Part 4)

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…

No Country For Old Women (Part 3)

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…

No Country For Old Women (Part 2)

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…

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