Night gallery.Death on a barDeath on a Barge.Leonard Nimoy interview.
Rod Serling's Night gallery: an after-hours tour
by Scott Skelton,Jim Benson
page 342-343
...Leonard Nimoy,director of some of the better entries in the Star Trek feature franchise, got his behind-the-camera career boost on Night Gallery."I had a one-year contract at Universal," Nimoy recalls,"to do some acting and delelop some directing projects.I met Jack Laird, who had shown a bent for starting new directors, and had several conversations with him.And I guess I just pestered him long enough,until finally one day he called me in and said,'Read this script.'I thought it was a wonderful story,a sort of Romeo and Juliet love story with vampire turns, and he gave me the job."...
What man wouldn't find himself riskin his immortal soul for a chance at Warren's Hyacinth? She succeeds in being both wraithlike and deliciously carnal at the same time,luxuriating in the doomed, tortured vampire prototype with its historical suggestion of sexual hunger.What is harder to divine, however,is why Hyacinth returns her suitor's love.As portrayed by the bland Robert Pratt, Ron is a pretty big zero.With such uneven performances,the motivational algebra just doesn't add up in this segment.
Furthering the frustration,Halsted Welles punctuates his script with the vernacular of thime."Death on a Barge" has uncomforable moments where the dialogue is an obvious attempt to emulate the hip jive of the 1970s generation:
Ron:
It's my life,okay? I'm not going to live it square! I like risk! I believe the whole trip!
I'm drawn to her! I dig her strangess! I dig her mystery! Most of all, I just plain want to know! Is she for real? Is a vampire for real?
Read all story.Relation with coworker.How difficult to direct it..Here.
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p.s.On Google book,I find many artical about Leonard Nimoy and Star Trek,but don't find anything interesting enouh to post here.So as pic on magazine.