This episode is a poor man’s Sunset Boulevard with a Twilight Zone twist. It looks good and it works, but it’s somehow a tad forgettable. The story is about a once-big actress who wants to relive her glory days, and in the end she does get her wish.
Quote: Isn’t it odd we always picture people the way they were, and never as they really are?
Highlight
– “Picture of a woman looking at a picture, movie great of another time. Once brilliant start in a firmament no longer part of the sky, eclipsed by the movement of earth and time. Barbra Jean Trenton whose world is a projection room, whose dreams are made out of celluloid. Barbra Jean Trenton struck down by hit and run years and lying on the unhappy pavement trying desperately to get the license number of fleeting fame.”
– Barbara standing right besides her movie screen
– Watching her old movies time after time
– Rejecting her new film role
– Being stunned when her old crush turns out to be old
– Becoming part of her own films
– “To the wishes that come true, to the strange, mystic strength of the human animal, who can take a wishful dream and give it a dimension of its own. To Barbara Jean Trenton, movie queen of another era, who has changed the blank tomb of an empty projection screen into a private world. It can happen in the Twilight Zone.”
Rating: 7/10