DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
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Anyone reading it? It's a great book. I have about 50 pages to go. Great story, great writing. There are some susprises that I had to get used to. There are people and events that you wonder just how much is based on real people and real events, and there are things that you know are based on real people and real events. I'd love to see this made into a movie.
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I thought it wasn't released yet? I thought it was going to be released at the fest.
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I pre-ordered mine from the web-site with the signed book mark. I'm not sure when the offical release is. If you check KLS' "Facebook" page you can see a photo of her opening boxes of the books.
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The release date in August 9th.
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Starting it tonight. I'll be reviewing it in Bay Area Reporter in mid-August. Stay tuned!
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I hope you like it. I think it's her best book. I just wish it was longer.
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Where can I order the book with the signed bookmark? I've checked KLS's website and Pomegrantate, and I can't find anything about that.
I loved the cover art with KLS's eyes.
Are there any plans for KLS to do an audiobook for it? I thought that would be great to listen to her read it.
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Her website offers an autographed book cover-- http://www.kathrynleighscott.com/?page_id=1107
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It was a limited time offer.
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The release date in August 9th.
In the past two days I've seen several reports that the book is available now - yet Amazon (which is what I was going by) and several other online book sellers are still all saying August 9th. [ghost_huh] Amazon is actually conflicting because it's now saying the book is for sale and in stock, yet it lists the release date as August 9th. [ghost_blink] But then, it's hardly the first time that Amazon has been confused, shall we say...
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Preordered mine at Borders.com--before they went under of course. Just came this week at a substantial discount
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Hi Borgosi sounds like a great book ! Will have to check it out!
Thanks Love Anne [ghost_smiley]
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We Love Soaps TV: DARK SHADOWS Star Kathryn Leigh Scott's "Dark Passages" Out Tuesday, Come See Her (http://www.welovesoaps.net/2011/08/darkpassages.html)
This article says that the book is coming out Tuesday (the 9th) despite the fact that it's supposedly already been available in several places. Who knows? But I suppose the 9th is simply the "official" date of release. [ghost_wacko]
The We Love Soaps TV interview with KLS will be posted later this week...
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Another indication that the official release is Tuesday:
HermesPress Hermes Press
DARK SHADOWS Star Kathryn Leigh Scott's "Dark Passages" Out Tuesday, Come See Her http://tumblr.com/xzs3z0hgu0
9 minutes ago
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I just finished the book on Saturday, Got the book from Borders about one week ago.
It was an interesting read, a nice mixture of DS and the Bunny Information. It was a quick read. I hadn't read her earlier fiction so I don't know how that went.
As you read it, you don't know how much of the behind the scene stuff was just made up, or was it true.
I think if it does well there will be a sequel, just how the book ends.
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'Dark Shadows' Star Pens Her Own Vampire Tale (http://brentwood.patch.com/articles/dark-shadows-star-pens-her-own-vampire-tale)
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... & A Dark Shadows Star is Reborn (http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/michaels-restaurant-celebrities-30_b40163)
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What burns Kathryn the most is that Gloria is still bad mouthing the bunnies. “I’m in warrior mode,” she told me, “because this 46 year-old rant is tiresome.” Ms. Steinem, I think you’ve met your match.
I'm sorry, but that's laughable. I only just started DP, but I'll be shocked if I find anything less than a sugar-coated treatment of her character's bunny days.
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I don't doubt for a fact that issues of sexism are real: there's a strong need to protect Roe V Wade, to support Planned Parenthood, and to protect women's rights in the workplace.
But I'm also finding it hard to believe that working at the Playboy Club was as horrible as Steinem claims.
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Being told how to look, dress, walk, stand, sit, behave, and converse as a condition of employment-- pretty much every moment at work micromanaged-- not all that empowering.
Jenna Dewan (Willie's sister Sophia, the 2004 pilot's version of Mrs. Johnson), btw, plays a bunny in the upcoming series.
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Jenna Dewan (Willie's sister Sophia, the 2004
pilot's version of Mrs. Johnson), btw, plays a bunny in the upcoming series.
I didn't realize that. Thanks for the info. [ghost_smiley]
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Being told how to look, dress, walk, stand, sit, behave and converse! That's sounds like being in the Army. At least they can't draft you anymore, but I guess the Playboy club never could and the Playboy Club, as far as I know, never claimed to empower women.
Truth is we all make our choices. Hooters is no different than the Playboy Club and those girls are empowed by their paycheck not by their employer or the people they serve.
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Just wanted to add that I don't go to Hooters and wouldn't go to the Playboy Club. I'm not a fan but they couldn't do would they do/did if women weren't will to take the job. They took/take jobs like that because the money enables them to go where they wanna go, to do what they wanna do. If they are already empowered, if they all it really doesn't matter what kind of job they have because no job can empower you.
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the Playboy Club, as far as I know, never claimed to empower women.
KLS' "Bunny Years" has, as have Hefner and execs for the new TV series. But unfortunately, we've gone way off topic.
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Many jobs are based on how you look. Look at actors and actresses, even in the job market for regular jobs.
One person said to me the other day, hiring is discrimination, you make choices. Everyone have their own bias's, we all have the ability to make decisions.
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Finished the book last night, found it to be quite a good read. Part Jacqueline Susann, part Stephen King, part Ds urban legend, part pure fancy--KLS has come up with a winner. Perhaps her best effort yet. Can't wait to see Meg look horns with Damon
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my last experience with DS-Star penned fiction(lara parker's abysmal "the salem branch") was not good...
but i'll give this a shot. i plan to attend a book signing in new york that KLS is doing this week. otherwise i'll pick it up at the fest.
as an aside with border's bookstores gone and several major barnes and noble locations closed i wonder how look the in-store author appearance/book signing will remain. it's fast becoming something of a dinosaur.
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We Love Soaps TV finally posted their KLS interview: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Kathryn Leigh Scott Reflects On DARK SHADOWS and Tells Us About Her New Book, "Dark Passages" (http://www.welovesoaps.net/2011/08/kathrynleighscott.html)
Hmmm - don't know where she got the idea that someone had a kinescope copy of Ep #1219, even one that was "in pieces," and from that they were able to put the ep back together? Though at least the fan audio tape really does exist.
And once again she mentions that Frid was seen with his clothes in hangers over his shoulder during the closing credits, even though that incident didn't take place that way. And I don't know if many fans would actually consider that the "most iconic blooper of the whole show" (I can certainly think of many others that come to my mind before that one and that have prompted a lot more fan interest/discussion through the years - in fact, it wasn't even in the running when hundreds of online DS fans voted for their favorite blooper back in '98), but...
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considering that she pretty much earns a living off of her "remembrances" of her time on DS you'd think that KLS might actually invest in the dvds(she could probably get a tax writeoff) so that she could avoid these lapses in accuracy.
the fact that she habitually misremembers the actual turn of events on the series at this point is extremely odd. [ghost_huh]
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Someone please tell KLS there were NO WIRE HANGERS EVER! [ghost_wink]
Hmm, one can argue that she played five characters, not four, because Maggie Evans Collins is a completely separate character.
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i just got back from the new york book signing event...
it was quite well attended...and in unofficial attendance was the lovely and charming marie wallace. what a nice surprise!
ms.scott gave the audience a bit of background on the book, read a couple of passages and then took a few questions. needless to say she could divulge nothing about the film except to say how nice and inclusive the atmosphere on set was. then it was the usual "who was your favorite character?" type of stuff(for the record this time it was josette).
she also gave a plug to the upcoming television series about the playboy club(which, of course, her book "the bunny years" is the partial inspiration), spoke quite well of those times, greeted several former "bunnies" in attendance and then took a major jab at ms.steinem calling her a sour "miss bossypants" and inviting the audience to join her in viewing the series and making up their own minds about it. ZWING!
then it was time for her to sign copies of the book. i'm glad i went. i'm sure it was much more manageable than trying to purchase and have signed the book at the fest itself.
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I always thought her favorite character was Maggie. Her best performances in the show, as far as I am concerned were Maggie in 1966, particularly when she was setting her cap for Joe, and a few of the Lady Kitty episodes when Kitty was intriguing to snare a rich hubby at Collinwood. Of course, once Kitty fell under the spell of the dead Josette, it was back to yawnsville and the standard mouth-breathing "W-where am I?? W-what am I doing here?" crap they made her do over and over again...
But then, I'm not much of a KLS fan or a Josette fan...
The event sounds really nice. Thanks for the report! What a nice treat for the fans to have Marie there, too.
G.
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like i said "this time" her favorite character was josette. [ghost_wink]
i'm with you on maggie gothick. my favorite maggie episodes were the 1966 at-the-diner stuff. when i think of maggie evans that's what comes to mind.
she was fine in later years as collinwood's resident ingenue-in-distress but early maggie was a more fully realized character with a distinct persona.
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I see where this week HBO has been running a Gloria Steinem profile entitled Gloria: In Her Own Words. I'm guessing KLS hasn't been tuning in or recording it on her DVR. [ghost_cheesy]
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Why should she? I wouldn't give her the time of day.
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Maybe my perceptions are off, but aren't there a lot more DS actresses still alive than have passed away?
WickedLPixie Natasha
I just squee'd! I got an autographed copy of Kathryn Leigh Scott's new book. She is one of the few remaining actresses from Dark Shadows!
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I read "Dark Passages" last night and found it interesting enough to stay up an hour past my bedtime to finish it and believe me, I don't give up sleeptime lightly. She defintely wins the contest of the Dark Shadows authors. There were a few too many uneeded characters. Just because it's based on her real life doesn't mean eveyone needs to be included particularly when it's obvious she's going for a sequel where she could introduce them later if they are that important.
I've heard her refer to her reel Pop in not so KLS terms before, but the fictional Pop description and actions were just too funny.
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Maybe my perceptions are off, but aren't there a lot more DS actresses still alive than have passed away?
Many of the actresses were younger, but I could be wrong.
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Don't know how they can really call the interview an exclusive considering that this is, what, KLS' 101st online interview in the past two months? [ghost_wink] But at least she doesn't mention the Frid/hangers story. And she does share he hopes for the Depp/DS film.
EXCLUSIVE [Interview] Original 'Dark Shadows' Star Kathryn Leigh Scott!! (http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/26239?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter)
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Not trying to be critical, but the author needs to use a spell checker at least. I saw spelling errors and I have problems spelling. Plus it is KLS, not KTS. Good remark MB.
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I wondered how in the world she got KTS out of Kathryn Leigh Scott?
And yet another interview: Paranormal Guest Author: Kathryn Leigh Scott + Dark Passages Giveaway (http://www.fromtheshadows.info/2011/09/paranormal-guest-author-kathryn-leigh.html)
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Exclusive: Kathryn Leigh Scott Talks Dark Shadows, Dark Passages, and More! (http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/47066/exclusive-kathryn-leigh-scott-talks-dark-shadows-dark-passages-and-more)
I'm thinking these people somehow think they have "exclusives" because they ask slightly different questions. It certainly isn't because she's only talking to them.
Then again, maybe KLS fibbed a bit and told them all she was only talking to them. [ghost_wink]
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I wondered how in the world she got KTS out of Kathryn Leigh Scott?
People have called her Katie, right? KTS is Katie S. It could have slid right past the writer's eye.