Writer and narrator of The Twilight Zone was apparently an anti-censorship and anti-corporate rebel of sorts. Check out his interview by a handsome (who knew?!) Mike Wallace in 1959 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ8dTT2BRp4). You should see it if only to watch how many cigarettes they fucking smoke! My favorite part is where Rod describes how some wacko fundamentalists pressured his sponsor to censor a Lassie episode he wrote where Lassie has puppies. The fundies couldn't handle the suggestion that animals have sex!! I'm well impressed by how articulate he is and the fact that capitalistic control of creativity was so openly discussed in mainstream media back then. Unfortunately it makes me feel that things never change... Who is the Rod of the 2000's? Hao Wu?
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