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Current Talk '10 II / Re: Today's Robservations Slideshow
« on: November 12, 2010, 10:29:38 PM »I really enjoyed tonight's slideshow from episode #99, particularly the shot of Carolyn and Vicki chatting in the drawing room while Mrs Johnson's sharp ears eagerly absorb every word for her report to Burke. Again, there's something about the composition that marks it as of the first year and how much realness the production unit put into giving these characters regular, normal lives.
Mrs. Johnson is always a joy to watch, whether she's clutching her chest and venting her feelings of doom and gloom, or she's simply tidying up the drawing room while lamenting the latest real or imagined problem at Collinwood. But she was really a hoot when she was a spy for Burke.
1966: Ep #99 - While dusting, Mrs. Johnson eavesdrops on
Vicki and Carolyn arguing about Burke, and later...
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thanks for including Angelique's lustful vamping of Barn
I love the entire VampAng period. Some amazing stuff.
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I enjoyed the glimpse of Lorna Bell (aka Mrs. Chris Pennock), too.
1970: Ep #1142 - Lamar has overheard Lorna Bell tell a
clueless Quentin that she'll see him later.
1970: Ep #1142 - And after Lorna's body is discovered with
the mark of Satan on her forehead...
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I wish Lorna had been allowed to strut her stuff a little while longer--seems as if she would have been a fun character, somewhat in the Suki Forbes vein, although the actress seemed a lot less polished at this point in her career than was the deft and vixenish Jane Draper.
Yes, it's a pity Lorna didn't get to hang around a bit more.
(I often say this whenever her name comes up but it really is too bad that Jane Draper was never brought back for another character. But alas...)
i'll bet we're the only fanbase in the world that could spend days quite enjoyably discussing the minutiae of a fictitious group of people's dinnertime attire.
We'll even discuss what they won't wear, like, had DS continued into the mid '70s, how the ever fastidiously dressed Barnabas wouldn't have been caught dead (no pun intended) wearing a leisure suit.