Charles Beaumont Premiere at The Egyptian Theatre
Hello Ghouls and Boils,
I have some terrorific news for you! Are you in the LA area? — or — Will you be in the LA area on March 27th? If so, there is an event you don’t want to miss! The official Premiere of
the documentary Charles Beaumont: The Life of Twilight Zone’s Magic Man – (puts on her best latenight ppv commercial voice) – but wait there’s more! There will also be a special signing of the Bleeding Edge. If you missed the signing in February – now is your chance! Sunni K Brock will be our behind-the-scenes reporter – so if you can’t make it… don’t fret! We will have the scoop here on She Never Slept. Below is all the information about the screening and the signing. Enjoy, my fiends!Abstrusely,
Sarah L. Covert
Charles Beaumont Premiere at The Egyptian Theatre, L.A.
And BLEEDING EDGE SIGNING!
Saturday, March 27, 2010 – 2:00pm
The Egyptian Theatre — 323.466.FILM
6712 Hollywood Blvd
Hollywood, CA
Tickets available at Fandango.com.At 2pm, we’ll be staging a mini-signing for THE BLEEDING EDGE anthology! Scheduled to appear [health allowing]: Ray Bradbury (The Martian Chronicles; Fahrenheit 451), Earl Hamner (The Waltons; The Twilight Zone), William F. Nolan (Logan’s Run; Burnt Offerings), George Clayton Johnson (Star Trek; Ocean’s Eleven), Jason V Brock, Cody Goodfellow, John Tomerlin (Law Man; The Portrait of Dorian Gray) and other surprise guests!
At 3pm — The documentary begins… Celebrating the life of Charles Beaumont: one of the principle writers for Rod Serling’s seminal The Twilight Zone, as well as a top writer for Playboy, and a major collaborator with Roger Corman (Burn, Witch, Burn; The Intruder; The Haunted Palace)…
First of a triple bill with Burn, Witch, Burn and The Intruder, with a Q&A after the documentary featuring WILLIAM F. NOLAN, Director/Writer JASON V BROCK, Editor SUNNI K BROCK, GEORGE CLAYTON JOHNSON, JOHN TOMERLIN and Moderated by MARC SCOTT ZICREE (The Twilight Zone Companion)!
RAY BRADBURY will be on hand to make opening remarks about his amazing mentorship to Beaumont
Charles Beaumont: The Life of Twilight Zone’s Magic Man
Writer.
Adventurer.
Provocateur.
All of these words apply to one man: Charles Beaumont. As one of the principal writers for the original Twilight Zone series, Beaumont became a mainstay of 1960s television. Later, working with filmmaker Roger Corman, he embarked on a promising career in movies (7 Faces of Dr. Lao, The Intruder). By this time, Beaumont was also a primary contributor to Playboy, Esquire, and several other major magazines of the day.
Beaumont overcame humble roots, bouncing between Chicago and Washington state. As the only child of an obsessed mother with an explosive temper, he endured many hardships, such as seeing his pets tortured and being dressed as a girl. Plagued with health problems and very fragile, Beaumont was a prodigious young talent whose artistic and writing abilities surpassed his peers.
Following his dreams to Los Angeles, the driven, intellectual Beaumont became the charismatic nucleus of a group of Southern California writers, whose ranks include Richard Matheson, William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson, Harlan Ellison, and Ray Bradbury among others. Charles Beaumont’s intensity and unabashed heed to confront controversy influenced early television and science fiction; he understood the human condition, and lived at the edge in everything he did and created.
At the height of his career, Beaumont began exhibiting strange and frightening symptoms: slurring words, balance problems, memory lapses. Was it alcohol abuse? Was it leftover from his childhood bout of meningitis? Perhaps it was stress…
He began to age – looking more like a man of 70 than a young man in his thirties. Charles Beaumont seemed to be trapped in one of his own Twilight Zone stories.
Whatever the cause, he would not live to see his 39th birthday.
