Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "UCLA Irv and Xiaoyan Drasnin Communication Archive"
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Rod Serling was the man the Ernest Hemingway dreamt of being. The gritty, seasoned war veteran, with insights and experience matched only by his supreme intellect. Neither donning the cowl modesty, nor boastful, but a real, visceral and an assertive intellectual, engaging the viewer and capturing their imaginations by drawing on the world’s harshest realities, and helping us to reflect on them, process them, through fantasy. Not to denigrate Hemingway, but Serling (both as a writer and a man) was the real thing, not playing at it, as Hemingway so often did. Underrated in the way that Raymond Chandler still is. But his genius lives on; partly, in thanks, to people who curate his memory, like the uploader of this video. And partly thanks to his timeless stories, which are so often retold; ingrained into our culture . . . RIP Rod ✌️👍
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