I played all three promos--FANTASTIC work!  I think my favorite is the Parallel Time one; in part because it's an exciting promo that doesn't give too much of the story away.  The 1967 one could run on the WB today, although the writing, acting and direction are about 500 times better than the WB's standard (if you can call it that).  but I'm not bitter...

G.

Huh. sounds like backpedalling to me, plus ye passing of ye olde bucke...

G.

I watched part of a DS reunion and got really irritated at the guy who played Peter Bradford (forgot his name) making fun of JF's short-term memory.

That would be Roger Davis.  Believe me, what you mentioned is just the tip of the iceberg!

Matt and I are the same age--I'm 3 weeks older than him. He'll be 46 this August.  I get to wear the birthday hat a week from Monday. *wry grin*

I can never really describe the feeling I got when I realized that Grayson and my Mom were carrying children more or less in sync.  Definitely a surprise to learn that...

Steve

Well, I personally liked the way that sequence was handled.  It was offbeat and very dark--and filmed in such a creepy way.  That definitely rates as among their most amazing episodes.  Even though KLS had a good laugh about the makeup in the original edition of Scrapbook memories, it was stunningly effective. to the point where the picture of the undead Josette kept being reprinted in Famous Monsters of Filmland (a popular horror mag back in the Sixties and Seventies) "You AXXXED FOR IT!!!" column.

G.

Oh yeah, you have to see END OF THE ROAD!  One of the major reasons Grayson lost interest in making feature films... the scene for which she did the movie wound up on the cutting room floor!

I love how she shows up being excavated from the sand with a party-gal "HI THERE!"  and how you can see the freckles on her back.  (Yes, she had freckles on her face too--she covered them with makeup most of the time.)

As for her shocking boudoir scene with Keach, I think the dialogue is a scream, especially when Grayson says "Veddy Noel Coward" and Keach ripostes "Private Lives... or Brief Encounters" as his hand wanders towards a certain titian-haired actress', um, WOMANHOOD.  (I once wrote a review of this where I speculated that Grayson's thoughts during this scene ran along the lines of "Get me back to Collinwood, PRONTO!  Tom Jennings was NEVER like this!")

Of course I had to buy it on eBay, and if it ever comes up for sale on DVD I'll have to get that as well.  There's a closeup of her at the start of the boudoir scene, removing her sunglasses provocatively, that dazzles me...

This movie, which wound up being rated X, was filmed in and around Great Barrington, Mass.

G.

Bizarre.   I wonder whether Clooney will end up using the footage for that HBO show?

G.

I got a poignant lump in the throat at the mention of sending letters to Don Briscoe; this issue must have gone to press just before his departure from the show.  I think the June issue came out in early May, and presumably the layout was done sometime in April.

G.