Amazing coincidence
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Kevin McCarthy
MichaelMartinDeSapio — 15 years ago(September 13, 2010 03:54 PM)
Everyone by now is aware of the irony of Kevin McCarthy having played the lead character in the TWILIGHT ZONE episode "Long Live Walter Jameson", who lives for two thousand years. But there's more:
Kevin McCarthy died on September 11, 2010. In "Long Live Walter Jameson", McCarthy's character (a history professor) reads to his class a diary entry dated September 11 (during the Civil War), talking about the burning of Atlanta. People have already commented on how this resonates with our more recent "September 11th". -
PrometheusTree64 — 12 years ago(February 13, 2014 02:13 PM)
Yes, his September 11th death was immediately notable for that reason . at the time, I came here to comment on it and three people had beaten me to it (some of those posts are now gone)! To say nothing of the additional irony of the date, given what would occur in 2001.
Also notable, given the storyline, was how McCarthy and Winwood became two of the oldest active actors in SAG.
A similar eerie coincidence is how Jack Warden has 46 1/2 years to go in his sentence in "The Lonely" episode of TZ, which aired in November 1959. And Warden indeed died ~46 1/2 years later in Summer 2006.
The message is this
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be careful with film if you do too good a job of it, it will tap into a frequency and reveal the future.
Non-sequiturs are delicious.