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A Game Of Pool (1961)
"A Game of Pool" is episode 70 of the American television anthology series ''The Twilight Zone''. It originally aired on October 13, 1961, on CBS. According to Rod Serling, it is "the story of the best pool player living and the best pool player dead." Opening narration Plot Pool shark Jesse Cardiff stays after hours practicing at Lister's Pool Room in Chicago. He bitterly muses that he would be considered the greatest pool player of all time, if it were not for the memory of James Howard "Fats" Brown, who died sixteen years previously, overshadowing him. Jesse says he would give anything to play one game against Fats, prompting Fats himself to wearily rise from a pool table in the afterlife. He appears in the pool room and offers to play against Jesse, with a wager attached. If Jesse wins, he will be acknowledged as the greatest pool player ever; if he loses, he forfeits his life. Jesse accepts these conditions and the two begin to play. As the game goes on, Jesse snaps th ...
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The Twilight Zone (1959 TV Series)
''The Twilight Zone'' (marketed as ''Twilight Zone'' for its final two seasons) is an American fantasy science fiction horror anthology series, anthology television series created and presented by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from October 2, 1959, to June 19, 1964. Each episode presents a standalone story in which characters find themselves dealing with often disturbing or unusual events, an experience described as entering "the Twilight Zone", often with a Plot twist, surprise ending and a moral. Although often considered predominantly Science fiction on television, science-fiction, the show's paranormal and Franz Kafka#"Kafkaesque", Kafkaesque events leaned the show much closer to fantasy and Horror fiction, horror (there are about twice as many fantasy episodes as science fiction). The phrase "twilight zone" has entered the vernacular, used to describe surreal experiences. The series featured both established stars and younger actors who would become much bet ...
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Afterlife
The afterlife or life after death is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's Stream of consciousness (psychology), stream of consciousness or Personal identity, identity continues to exist after the death of their physical body. The surviving essential aspect varies between belief systems; it may be some partial element, or the entire soul or spirit, which carries with it one's personal identity. In some views, this continued existence takes place in a Supernatural, spiritual realm, while in others, the individual may be reborn into World#Religion, this world and begin the life cycle over again in a process referred to as reincarnation, likely with no memory of what they have done in the past. In this latter view, such rebirths and deaths may take place over and over again continuously until the individual gains entry to a spiritual realm or otherworld. Major views on the afterlife derive from religion, Western esotericism, esotericism, and metaphy ...
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Television Episodes Written By George Clayton Johnson
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. The medium is capable of more than "radio broadcasting", which refers to an audio signal sent to radio receivers. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice''p. 48 In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was intro ...
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Cue Sports On Television
Cue or CUE may refer to: Event markers *Sensory cue, in perception (experimental psychology) ** Cueing (medicine), rehabilitation techniques for Parkinson's disease patients to improve walking *Cue (theatrical), the trigger for an action to be carried out at a specific time, in theatre or film *Cue (show control), the electronic rendering of the specific action(s) to be carried out at a specific time by a show control system * Voice cue, in dance, words or sounds that help match rhythmic patterns of steps with the music * Cue mark, in motion picture film to signal projectionists of reel changes *Cue, a vocal message given by a group fitness instructor to inform participants of upcoming sequences, such as a change in stretching direction Music and audio * Cue (band), a Swedish musical group *Cue tone, a message consisting of audio tones, used to prompt an action. *Cue (audio), to determine the desired initial playback point in a piece of recorded music *Cue sheet (computing), a me ...
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The Twilight Zone (1959 TV Series) Season 3 Episodes
''The Twilight Zone'' is an American media franchise based on the anthology series, anthology television series created by Rod Serling in which characters find themselves dealing with often disturbing or unusual events, an experience described as entering "the Twilight Zone". The episodes are in various genres, including science fiction, fantasy, Absurdist fiction, absurdism, dystopian fiction, suspense, Horror fiction, horror, Drama (film and television)#Fantasy drama, supernatural drama, black comedy, and psychological thriller, frequently concluding with a macabre or Twist ending, unexpected twist, and usually with a moral. A popular and critical success, it introduced many Americans to common science fiction and fantasy trope (literature), tropes. The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series), The first series, shot entirely in black-and-white, ran on CBS for five seasons from 1959 to 1964. ''The Twilight Zone'' followed in the tradition of earlier television shows such as ''Tales of ...
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1961 American Television Episodes
Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti enters the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel ...
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Maury Chaykin
Maury Alan Chaykin (July 27, 1949 – July 27, 2010) was an American-Canadian actor. Described as "one of the most recognizable faces in Canadian cinema," he was best known for his portrayal of Rex Stout's detective Nero Wolfe on the television series '' A Nero Wolfe Mystery'' (2001–2002), as well as for his work as a character actor in many films and television programs. His notable film appearances include '' WarGames'' (1983), '' Twins'' (1988), '' Dances with Wolves'' (1990), '' My Cousin Vinny'' (1992), '' Money for Nothing'' (1993), ''Devil in a Blue Dress'' (1995), '' Cutthroat Island'' (also 1995), '' The Sweet Hereafter'' (1997), '' Mouse Hunt'' (also 1997), '' The Mask of Zorro'' (1998), ''Entrapment'' (1999) and ''Mystery, Alaska'' (also 1999), '' Being Julia'' (2004), ''Blindness'' (2008), and '' Barney's Version'' (2010). During the 1990s, he was a frequent collaborator of Toronto New Wave director Atom Egoyan. On television, he starred as Sam Blecher on the ...
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Esai Morales
Esai Manuel Morales Jr. (born October 1, 1962) is an American actor. He has had notable roles in the films '' Bad Boys'' with Sean Penn and '' La Bamba'' with Lou Diamond Phillips. His television roles include the PBS 2002 drama series '' American Family'', the Showtime series '' Resurrection Blvd.'' (2000–2002), portraying Lt. Tony Rodriguez on ''NYPD Blue'' (2001–2003), Joseph Adama in the science fiction series ''Caprica'' (2009–2010), Camino del Rio in the Netflix original series '' Ozark'' (2017), and the DC Comics supervillain Slade Wilson / Deathstroke in the superhero series ''Titans'' (2019). Morales appeared as Gabriel, the main antagonist in the 2023 spy action film '' Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One'' opposite Tom Cruise, a role which he reprises in '' Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning'' in 2025. Early life Of Puerto Rican descent, Morales was born in Brooklyn to Esai Morales Sr., a welder, and Iris Margarita (née Declet), a union ...
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A Game Of Pool (The Twilight Zone, 1985)
"A Game of Pool" is the fifty-fifth episode and the twentieth episode of the third season (1988–89) of the revived television series ''The Twilight Zone''. It is a remake of the original series 1961 episode of the same name, dealing with a pool match between an up-and-coming player and a deceased pool legend. Plot In a pool hall after closing time, a young pool player named Jesse Cardiff practices his shot and complains about being compared to pool legend Fats Brown. He boasts that if Fats were alive he could beat him. He turns around to see Fats Brown sitting in the bar. Fats tells Jesse that because he is legendary, in a sense he lives forever. Fats goads him into a match in which if Jesse loses, he will die, but if he wins, he lives - seemingly gaining nothing from victory. They play and the match is fairly even. With Jesse needing to sink only one more ball to win, Fats distracts him by scuffing his pool chalk, making him miss. Fats then sinks all but the last ball he ...
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The Twilight Zone (1985 TV Series)
''The Twilight Zone'' is an American anthology series, anthology television series which aired from September 27, 1985, to April 15, 1989. It is the first of three Revival (television), revivals of Rod Serling's acclaimed The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series), 1959–64 television series, and like the original it featured a variety of speculative fiction, commonly containing characters from a seemingly normal world stumbling into paranormal circumstances. Unlike the original, however, most episodes contained multiple self-contained stories instead of just one. The voice-over narrations were still present, but were not a regular feature as they were in the original series; some episodes had only an opening narration, some had only a closing narration, and some had no narration at all. The multi-segment format liberated the series from the usual time constraints of episodic television, allowing stories ranging in length from 8-minutes to 40-minute mini-movies. The series ran for two se ...
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Sandusky, Ohio
Sandusky ( ) is a city in Erie County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Situated on the southern shore of Lake Erie, Sandusky is located roughly midway between Toledo, Ohio, Toledo ( west) and Cleveland ( east). At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 25,095, and the Sandusky metropolitan area had 115,986 residents. Sandusky was established in the early 19th century and developed as a port city at the head of Sandusky Bay. It is home to Cedar Point, one of the most popular amusement parks in the world, as well as water parks including Cedar Point Shores, Castaway Bay (Sandusky, Ohio), Castaway Bay, Great Wolf Resorts, Great Wolf Lodge, and Kalahari Resorts, Kalahari. The headquarters of Cedar Fair Entertainment Company were located in the city until it merged with Six Flags, who retains some administrative offices in Sandusky. Etymology The accepted etymology is that the name "Sandusky" is derived from the Wyandot language, Wyandot w ...
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Sore Loser
Sportsmanship is an aspiration or ethos that a sport or activity will be enjoyed for its own sake, and with proper consideration for fairness, ethics, respect, and a sense of fellowship with one's competitors. A "sore loser" refers to one who does not take defeat well, whereas a "good sport" means being a "good winner" as well as being a "good loser". Analysis Sportsmanship can be conceptualized as an enduring and relatively stable characteristic or disposition such that individuals differ in the way they are generally expected to behave in sports situations. Sportsmanship mainly refers to virtues such as fairness, self-control, courage, and persistence, and has been associated with interpersonal concepts of treating others and being treated fairly, maintaining self-control if dealing with others, and respect for both authority and opponents. Sportsmanship is also looked at as being the way one reacts to a sport/game/player. Four elements of sportsmanship are good form, ...
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