Who was your first true love? Mine was Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins in Dark Shadows. (My one sister's was Quentin Collins and my other's was Chris Jennings so we kept it all in the family.) Jonathan brought style and class to creating this role, and he had an odd natural beauty (from some angles resembling the most beautiful man of all time, Buster Keaton--who Johnny Depp did a better job of imitating than Barnabas.) No one could hold a candle to the wonderfully talented Jonathan, not Ben Cross, who thought much of himself and little of the role, to the point of holding it in contempt--a fatal quality for any actor, particularly the lead--not what's his name from 2004, and not Johnny Depp, who does the voice all right but comes off looking like a pathetic goth clown. You can't mess with perfection! Thank God for the original series, now coming out in a set!
