A Dark Shadows Cruise? / merged /w DS cruise update

[BuzzH]

some of the stars who live in LA won't go to New York anymore~~and vice versa.

Like who?

[Janet the Wicked]

Been on ships before,  if done in the fall  we would need to stay away from the  hurricanes. . Depending on how big the ship is you can feel them move with the sea.

Gotta mention this. When my spouse and I ventured on the cruise ship from Boston to Bermuda - I think it was 1995 - there were five hurricanes following us. We watched the weather report every morning. I recall watching from my room the ship's stabbilizing wings come out. I loved every minute of it. We had a competant crew, plenty of good food, and a bartender. If we were going down, we were going down in style, let me tell you.
All in all, it was a grand time. Had lunch and breakfasts with George Takai, snorkeling...just a lot of fun. I reccomend this type trip to anyone.

[MsCriseyde]

It will be a cold day in hell before I ever set foot on another cruise ship. Did a day cruise off the coast of Florida a few years ago, and I have never been so sick in my entire life. 

[Gerard]

It will be a cold day in hell before I ever set foot on another cruise ship. Did a day cruise off the coast of Florida a few years ago, and I have never been so sick in my entire life. 

Get the patch!  I use it all the time when I'm at sea.  Despite my fanatical love for being on a ship, I am one of the unfortunate ones who gets mal-de-mar when I stir my coffee too fast.  With it, I've never experienced a moment's queeziness, and I've been through some rough waters (including one transatlantic crossing with 40-foot waves).  It works perfectly at exorcising that demon in the inner ear!

Gerard

[MsCriseyde]

Get the patch!  I use it all the time when I'm at sea.  Despite my fanatical love for being on a ship, I am one of the unfortunate ones who gets mal-de-mar when I stir my coffee too fast.  With it, I've never experienced a moment's queeziness, and I've been through some rough waters (including one transatlantic crossing with 40-foot waves).  It works perfectly at exorcising that demon in the inner ear!

Had it at the time. Didn't work. Perhaps if I had wound myself in them as though I were a mummy . . . 

[loril54]

It will be a cold day in hell before I ever set foot on another cruise ship. Did a day cruise off the coast of Florida a few years ago, and I have never been so sick in my entire life. 

Doesn't also depend on how big the ship is? I just remembered that  I spent a lot of time hold to the high rails and bars or holdings they put on the sides.

[David]

some of the stars who live in LA won't go to New York anymore~~and vice versa.

Like who?

The two Donnas, McKechnie & Wandrey, appear in NYC only.

Lisa Richards appears in LA only.

Sharon Smyth, who seems to have dropped off the radar, also appeared in NYC only.

Chris Pennock/James Storm used   to appear in NY, but don't anymore.

David

[michael c]

last night they aired the agatha christie classic "murder on the orient express" on tcm.

what if instead of a cruise it was a trip on a grand old fashioned train with sleeper cars and the requisite mystery on board?

they have a very nice one that leaves from new york,travels all the way up the new england coastline and ends at niagra falls...i've always wanted to do it but it's quite expensive.it could be glamorous and fun.

[loril54]

Felix is now forming in the Carribean,  if we were on a ship would be be able to out run it? A train sound great.  We could do a train that starts in Seattle and goes down the west coast.  It could stop in Portland and I could get on.  I have an motive in this suggestion. 

[David]

a cruise could be taken in winter.
aren't there no hurricanes then?

a coastal train trip, re-creating Victoria's journey to Collinwood, would be
GRAND!

David

[borgosi]

There is a fan who has her own travel agency (at least she did, I'm guessing it's still around) and they specialize in cruises I think.  That might be the place to start and they could no doubt use the business in this 'book online' world.  Her name is Helen Samaras and the company name is Classic Cruises and Tours, it's in Long Island NY.

I will try and make contact with the above person next week and ask her to come here and let us know what this would take. I hope we can make it happen.

[BuzzH]

The two Donnas, McKechnie & Wandrey, appear in NYC only.  Lisa Richards appears in LA only.  Sharon Smyth, who seems to have dropped off the radar, also appeared in NYC only.  Chris Pennock/James Storm used   to appear in NY, but don't anymore.

Okay, as far as I know, Donna McKechnie's first and only Fest was last year in Brooklyn.   Has she appeared at any others?  Donna Wandrey HAS appeared in LA before, she was at the 1991 Fest for sure and I'm pretty sure she was there in 1994.  Lisa Richards was, IMHO, such a *minor* chararcter who even cares if she ever appears again?  LOL!     From what I understand from a friend who is on the committee, Sharon is no longer invited, not sure why she was so sweet.  Jim Storm was at the Brooklyn Fest in 2003.  I'm told, w/the exception of this year since none of the LA stars, save for Lara and KLS, were invited, that the past couple Fests he's been priorly committed and that's why he hasn't come.  Chris Pennock was in Brooklyn last year. 

[Gerard]

Get the patch!  I use it all the time when I'm at sea.  Despite my fanatical love for being on a ship, I am one of the unfortunate ones who gets mal-de-mar when I stir my coffee too fast.  With it, I've never experienced a moment's queeziness, and I've been through some rough waters (including one transatlantic crossing with 40-foot waves).  It works perfectly at exorcising that demon in the inner ear!

Had it at the time. Didn't work. Perhaps if I had wound myself in them as though I were a mummy . . . 

I'm surprised it didn't work for you, Crisey!  Like I said, I'll get sea sick watering my lawn, but when I put the patch on, I'm good as gold.  One time, while crossing the Atlantic on the Queen Elizabeth 2, we hit that storm with forty foot waves and the ship pitched like a bucking bronco.  I had the time of my life.  I had supper in the dining salon with only 50 other passengers (it seated over 1,000 in two sittings) and then went to a "pitching party" in the ship's disco and had a blast.  My friends who were in our shared cabin ended up in the hospital getting a shot in the poop deck with hundreds of others.

Try the mummy treatment with the patch!  You can be like Krusty the Klown on The Simpsons who tried using the nicotine patch to quit smoking.  He had them all over his body and had to keep licking them!  (Hysterical scene!)

Gerard

[BuzzH]

Chris Pennock was in Brooklyn last year.  

Ran out of time to modify, Chris was all set to come to this year's event (this was before he got that acting gig) when he learned the LA stars were not invited.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

The Dallas '86 Fest had only two guests~~Frid & Terry Crawford.

Yeah, well, all the early Fests had only a few guests - and most weren't even stars but production personnel like writer Ron Sproat or producer Robert Costello (both of whom I'd love to see attend again some year).

I don't think a lot of stars started attending until the '86 NJ Fest. And that was probably because DS had been showing on the New Jersey Network (though, sadly, it was canceled and ended right around the time of that Fest  ).