Posted by mfmiozza on February 19, 2002 at 20:27:52:
In Reply to: Re: Mr. Grayson Hall joins the show! posted by Vlad on February 19, 2002 at 18:08:01:
Sorry, Vlad, but you might want to get used to believing it because here's an excerpt from Sam Hall's most famous (or is it infamous?
) interview in the DS Files books:
Q: What got you interested in writing, particularly in writing soap operas?
A: I'd gone to Yale Drama School to become a playwrite. When I came back to new York there was a television director who asked me to do a show for Fred Cole, which I did. Then I did all sorts of things and it was simply during one terrible fallow period in our lives that Grayson had gotten
Dark Shadows, and I had nothing to do with it. I just cued her as she learned her lines.
One night, after she'd been on for about six months, Dan Curtis, who owned the show and was a magician of sorts...a really incredible man...hadf talked the actors into crossing a picket line, because he said the show would go off the airif they didn't. Grayson was a firm labor union woman, but he was so persuasive that he got all these actors to do it and continue filming the show.
Dan arrived there one night, the first time I'd met him, with this triumph ringing in his ears, and he said, "Will you write
Dark Shadows for me?" I said, "No, I really don't want to do it and, besides, you don't know me." I hate people who say, "Would you do this," and they wake up in the morning with a hangover saying, " My God, why did I do that?" So I said, "I don't even want to answer that," and the party went on.
The next day he called and said, "I meant it." I asked him, "Well, do you know anything about me?" And he said, "Yes, I know your credits. Why don't you start next week?" So I did.
