Someone who shall be considered nameless just sent me a veritable .....load of tapes covering the gap in my DS from mid-1795 through early 1897.    I feel like waiting for permission to say thanks by name here, why I'm not sure.   Maybe there's a good reason in the back of my head that hasn't made its way to the front yet.   Anyway, Groucho wrote a song about this individual.

I think I understand.  In addition to benevolent, she has eyes that folks adore so and a torso even moreso? 

Nathan Forbes=Tim Shaw.

Yes!, I hadn't thought about that.

I don't know why Dan was so damn insistant that the audience would never accept Alexandra as anyone BUT the pure, innocent Vicki. I certainly wouldn't have minded seeing her in a villianous role.

And with so much of the cast off to make HODS at this time, bringing back Alexandra during the PT story would have been great......I mean seeing an evil Parallel Time Vicki might just have made the storyline more interesting than it actually was.

I'm not sure that teenage Midnite would've accepted it readily.  But adult Midnite LOVED what the fan fic Shadows on the Wall did in its progression of character transformation of Vicki during the later chapters. 

T is for throttle, because the next letter is not S (for strangle) or C (for choke).

A reminder:  Spoiler warnings for plot revelations are MUCH appreciated by Forum cousins who have not seen the entire series. 

The problem here appears to be twofold.  First off, points already made seem to have been lost on some.  For example, no one said there was no committee.  Other comments have also been misunderstood though they seem quite clear.  And the discussion about the Fests possibly losing money has already been covered in another topic.  I suggest that posters please carefully (re)read previous replies before responding themselves.

The second issue is the absence of netiquette in some responses.  Please be respectful of other posters' opinions and experiences.  Further personal attacks will result in an official warning.

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I've been coming to these things since 1990 and they have always been $25 for the entire weekend.  There have even been years where it was $25 for TWO ppl.  So I find Nancy's assertion that a profit must be made for them to continue a little ridiculous since not only are they NOT raising prices after at least 16 years, but in some instances charge LESS.  I realize that the stars are flown in on the ¢â‚¬Ëœcompany dime' and their expenses are paid, but there must be another source of revenue going on here.  It can't ALL be contingent on the admission price or the amount of ppl attending, for the reasons I've mentioned above.

Perhaps not all attendees can afford to pay a higher fee for the event?  I've seen guest rooms at past Fests with fans sleeping on the floor to save money.

Question, why do you keep saying the ¢â‚¬Ëœso-called committee', as if one doesn't exist.  For the record, that's how they refer to themselves in the Fest program.  Maybe you've never read yours, but on page one it lists, FEST COMMITTEE-Jim Pierson, Chairman, Marcy Robin/Kathy Resch et all, Guest Relations, and so one.  We the fans did not come up w/this phrase, they did.

I know you directed your question to Nancy, but I recall reading these telling comments from another committee member a while back (about the announcement of a "Farewell Festival"):

Also, I've seen several posts that seem to suggest that this was a decision of the Dark Shadows Festival "Committee". There is no "committee". There were never any "committee meetings". At one point, in the program books, the term "committee" was changed to "staff". The Festival decisions are made by Jim Pierson and Ann Wilson alone. Many of the Festival "Staff" have long thought that the Festivals did indeed need a reinvention and made this known to Mr. Pierson. However, no noticeable changes ever came.

which gave me the impression that the powers of the Festival Staff/Committee are quite limited, making it a so called committee, but not "so called" because the Fest Committee doesn't officially exist.

Also, can we please dial down the tone of this discussion a bit?

P is for portrait.