Jack Klugman from "A Passage For Trumpet"

Jack Klugman RIP, the last one remaining of the 12 Angry Men. When I read the news, my first thought was of his monologue here from "A Passage For Trumpet", one of Rod Serling's most earnest & tender meditations of mortality & the possibility of a second act in an American life. "Because I'm sad. Because I'm nothing. Because I'll live & die in a crummy one-roomer with dirty walls & cracked pipes. I'll never even have a girl. I'll never be anybody. Half of me is this horn. I can't even talk to people, Baron, cause this horn, that's half my language. But when I'm drunk, Baron ... oh, when I'm drunk, boy, I don't see the dirty walls or the cracked pipes. I don't know the clock's going, that the hours are going by, 'cause then I'm Gabriel. Oh, I'm Gabriel with a golden horn, & when I put it to my lips, it comes out jewels, comes out a symphony, comes out the smell of fresh flowers in summer, comes out beautiful. Beauty. When I'm drunk, Baron. Only when I'm drunk." "A Passage For Trumpet" from "The Twilight Zone" Featuring Jack Klugman & Frank Wolff Written by Rod Serling Directed by Don Medford 1960