Oh my gosh, I so hope Jessica stays!!  She's the best part of the show!  She's hilarious, and in last week's episode she had a wonderful dramatic scene, as well.  The show is very cheesy and over the top, but so far it's been very entertaining.  I'd love the idea of some of these folks coming back as ghosts in season 2.  Should be fun!

Okay, thanks for the clarification, Cousin.  I thought that the combination of drug use and it being an illegal substance (assuming it's not for medicinal purposes) might make it R.  I guess I'm too strict, LOL.

Funny, I was just watching a History channel show about vampires (I've seen it before so it's probably been repeated a zillion times, but it was fun to have on on a snowy () fall afternoon.  It mentioned DS as being instrumental in making the vampire more sympathetic to the audience.  Anyway, it got me thinking about the current Twilight fad, and as Johnny said recently, "Nobody looks like a vampire, man!"  So in a way you're right, Cousin, that a PG-13 rating might make teens see it and realize there's more to vampires than sparkly young hunks.  I do lean slightly toward a grittier R rating, though.  I'm bad 

Yes, Johnny had a history of being a terrible chain smoker back in the day.   When his kids were young, he started talking about trying to quit for their sake.  Then around the time of Public Enemies, he claimed to have quit altogether.  And true, we didn't see any photos of him smoking at that time, even in paparazzi shots.  But more recently, he started again, and I suspect that filming The Tourist may have been a temptation to start again (his character is smoking electronic cigarettes through most of the film, but at the end he switches to real ones), though I don't know if that's what actually did it or not.  Coincidentally, he just played a concert in Austin last weekend, and a friend of mine got to go.  One of the questions I asked (as I noticed photos of him with a cigarette) if he smoked much during the 1.5 hr+ show, and she said no, just one.  No offense to any smokers here, but I am a cancer researcher, so naturally, I'm biased toward hoping he's trying to go light on the cigs  

I was hoping for a little more too, but hey, it was mentioned and hopefully will be in people's minds for next year.  And Lone Ranger and Dr. Seuss weren't mentioned at all!

Overall, the interview had me in stitches.  Johnny usually does pretty well on Letterman because I think their senses of humor jive somewhat.   And hey, (reference to Dave's Top Ten List) if I can order Pirates of the Caribbean from Netflix and have Johnny deliver the DVD to me personally, I'll be glad to remain a loyal customer 

 Yes, I heard that, and on the radio this morning they were saying the share prices have just plummeted.  I am still a customer, for now, but I don't feel the allegiance that I used to for them.  I used to really love their service and their support the few times I had a lost or damaged disc.  But they've really made some boneheaded mistakes, and have done terrible PR, in my opinion.  I wouldn't have minded a modest price increase, but not to offer a discount for bundling both DVD and streaming services was a mistake.  Trying to separate them into 2 different services with different names was even worse.  Then, the curt e-mail I got from them saying they would keep everything as Netflix seemed almost rude- they really should be giving assurances and telling us customers that we are valued, instead of sounding like children that are pouting after being punished.  Yesterday, I noticed that the option to "play" several of the selections on my queue had returned, and it got me very nervous, because I had dropped instant viewing, and I was afraid they had changed my subscription (and started charging me the higher price, of course).  They had not- I am still getting DVDs only, but I feel that the "play" option is dishonest because I'm sure that if I click that, they will start charging me extra.  The whole thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

If they are now getting rid of DS, too, that would be awful- just at a time when new fans who are just discovering the show would be interested in watching.  I hope it's not true. 

Quote from: jimbo on October 23, 2011, 04:09:42 PM

Did I read this correctly? Pee-Wee Herman wants to remake Dark Shadows after Depp's movie?

For some reason it took forever to get the video to play. But it strikes me as if he was just joking - particularly when his remarks about DS are in reply to the interviewer saying he would have loved to have seen him be in Burton's DS. But even if Pee Wee would like to do his own version, there's one big obstacle in the way: Depp holds the rights to DS. So, neither Pee Wee nor anyone else would be able to do a DS film as long as that's the case. And who knows when Depp's rights expire? If there really is hope of doing a DS franchise, the rights can't expire anytime soon.

200 days 11 hours 54 minutes 25 seconds until the day the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows is released(ET)!!

I agree- I'm sure he was just joking.  Remember that Pee-Wee and Tim *do* go way back, and Paul Reubens (the real Pee-Wee) was also in Blow with Johnny, so they're all friends.  I would actually love to see them all work together again sometime!

Here is a tiny snippet from an MTV interview with Johnny, speaking about his choice of look for DS.  Hopefully it will allay some folks' fears:

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1672481/johnny-depp-dark-shadows.jhtml