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People in the news Submitted here for your approval, one Rod Serling NEW YORK To people raised on television, Rod Serling is still the narrator of “The Twilight Zone,” that series of 0. Henryesque stories in which aliens turn out to be human, humans find out they are mannequins and space travelers who reach distant, forbidding planets discover they are really on Earth. Millions of Americans can recall the twisted endings of “The Twilight Zone,” which first appeared between 1959 and 1964, but relatively few have considered Serling’s writings as a serious body of work. Starting Friday, however, a retrospective at the Museum of Broadcasting, in Manhattan, attempts to examine some of the more than 200 television plays and programs Serling wrote in the quarter-century before his death in 1975. “On the surface, Rod Serling seems to be just another television writer,” Ronald C. Simon, curator of the television collection at the museum, said. “But there is a richness and complexity there that you just don’t find with most other writing in television.” According to Simon, Serling’s work was by any standards prolific and uneven. At its worst, it featured depthless characters and cliche-ridden dialogue. At its best, it included some of the finest live television plays of the 19505, such as “Patterns,” performed on “The Kraft Television Theater” in January 1955, and “Requiem for a Heavyweight,” which appeared on “Playhouse 90” in October 1956. After “The Twilight Zone” went off the air, Serling conceived and wrote two other television series, “The Loner,” a western that appeared from 1965 to 1966, and “Night Gallery,” another drama anthology, similar to “The Twilight Zone,” which was broadcast from 1970 to 1973. The Rod Serling retrospective titled “Dimensions of Imagination,” is to run through May 3. • NEW YORK (AP) Rock singer Ozzy Osbourne was hospitalized here after some exploding glass caught in his throat during taping of a video in London. “He has lacerations in his throat,” said Mike Jensen, the Los Angeles publicist for the 35-year-old British singer, said late Thursday. The glass passed through Osbourne’s system, he said. Jensen said the accident occurred in a London studio at about 11 p.m. EST Wednesday Osbourne apparently thought he was all right and boarded a Concorde flight for New York en route to a Thursday night concert in Lakeland, Fla. He began feeling discomfort during the flight, and on arrival at Kennedy Airport went immediately to nearby Peninsula Hospital Center in Queens. Doctors there determined there was no glass lodged in his throat and transferred him to a hospital in Manhattan.

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How much difference can a successful television miniseries make to a film actor’s career? Michael Beck made a strong impression in “The Warriors,” directed by Walter Hill, and even acquitted himself nicely in “The Golden Seal,” an otherwise negligible children’s film. But as the villain of “Celebrity,” the three-part mini-series that was on NBC last week, Beck finally stole a show that was widely seen. “I know that many more people saw me in those three nights than in probably all my other films put together,” Beck said. In the past, he added, he has appeared in a couple of television films and mini-series a year (he played Meryl Streep’s brother in “Holocaust”), and perhaps a feature or two. In the last week alone, Beck has been considered for two feature roles each, he is sure, a direct result of his television exposure. • NEW YORK (AP) Dr. Seuss, whose earlier books told children 11 about “The Cat in the Hat” and “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” says even he is not sure how to classify his newest work, “The Butter Battle Book.” The book is the story of an escalating arms race between the Yooks, who eat their bread butter-side up, and the Zooks, who like it just the opposite. Their armory includes the Utterly Sputter and the Big-Boy Boomeroo. “I don’t know if this is an adult book for children or a children’s book for adults,” Theodore Seuss Geisel, who writes under his middle name, told Parade magazine in an interview to be published Sunday. The author, who turns 80 on March 2, also relates how, as a lieutenant colonel in World War 11, he once had to choose between two Hollywood actors to do the narration for an Army film. “One was Lt. Ronald Reagan and the other was Sgt. John Beal. I listened to them both and selected Sgt. Beal,” said Geisel. “I guess it’s one of the few times anybody has said, ‘Don’t call us, we’ll call you’ to an incipient president of the United States.”

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Suspense) Charlton Heston, Karen Black. (2 hrs, 30 min.) ffi EYE ON HOLLYWOOD Hosts: Paul Moyer, Tawny Schneider. 1:00 ffi GULLIVER IN LILLIPUT The modern adaptation of Jonathan Swift s classic features electronic special effects. (2 hrs.) ffi WEATHER 1:05 ® MOVIE * Xtro" (1983, Science-Fic-tion) Philip Sayer. Bernice Stegers. (1 hr.. 20 min.) 1:30 O ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT 1:45 O MOVIE ** "UFO" (1956) Documentary. (1 hr., 45 min.) © NEWS 2:00 0 ffi NEWS ffi PAUL YONGGI CHO 2:30 ffi PLAYBOY’S PLAYMATE REUNION ffi NEWS © JIMMY SWAGGART 3:00 ffi) YES, MINISTER © INDEPENDENT NETWORK NEWS ffi GOD’S NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS 3:30 ffi LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE O STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO © ROWAN & MARTIN’S LAUGH-IN © THE BLACKWOOD BROTHERS 3:45 ffi MOVIE *** "That Championship Season" (1982, Drama) Bruce Dern, Stacy Keach.(lhr„ 50 min.) 4:00 ® MOVIE *** “The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957. Science-Fiction) Grant Williams, Randy Stuart. (2 hrs.)

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