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  • "There's Just No Point in D...
    McGowan, David

    Quarterly review of film and video, 07/2022, Letnik: 39, Številka: 5
    Journal Article

    The DVD boxset The Twilight Zone - The Definitive Edition: Season 5 (2005) has become infamous due to the presence of a particular special feature: an audio commentary for the episode "The Last Night of a Jockey" (originally transmitted 25 October 1963) featuring Mickey Rooney and an unidentified moderator. The actor proves an elusive interviewee throughout, frequently lapsing into silence, randomly shouting a number of his responses, and mostly claiming not to remember anything about the episode. When the moderator explains that a "younger audience" will be listening to the commentary to learn about the production, Rooney disputes this, stating that they are too busy "watching... sexy things" instead. The bizarre content of this track pushes it into the realm of what John Thornton Caldwell has termed the "unruly bonus." Rather than conforming to the model of the set's other features - which largely reiterate the notion that The Twilight Zone (1959-1964) is a classic of early television, and worthy of further critical attention - Rooney's contribution becomes an unintentional, and "disruptive," spectacle in itself^. This is indicated by several online reviews which give the track a disproportionate amount of coverage, relative to the set as a whole.