In all seriousness, it hardly seems appropriate on a DS forum to assail the man's reputation as a businessman. Let's stick to the topic at hand, which I believe is his public appearances and performances.
Well, I suppose the only difficulty with this is the fact that during his public appearances he talks about his real estate ventures and his success as a businessman. LOL
But seriously folks.....his performances.....hmm......
Maybe I'm crazy, but from where I was sitting during
Return To Collinwood, I could have sworn I saw a cell phone attached to the waistband of his pants. Did anyone else see that, or was it something else? ROTFL (really added to that "Collinwood aura")
Actually, although I didn't pay a whole lot of attention to him (I think y'all probably know who I was focusing on
), I recall his performance as pretty damned good. I also noticed that his voice has not changed at all and it helped add to the DS realism.
Ya know, I had a little bit of a problem with that - the realism. I think maybe because of all the humor in the play and DS was played straight. BUT, something hit me maybe around 3/4ths of the way through. All of a sudden I'm there watching Selby, Parker, Pennock, KLS, Karlen, et al, playing their characters after 35 years and tears started coming to my eyes. Kinda corny huh? Did that happen to anyone else? I sort of had to get control of myself for a minute. I dunno....maybe because unlike some folks, I didn't start re-watching until about 1999 - didn't even know it had been on throughout most of the 90's. Dark Shadows was just a fond memory from waaaaay back a couple of lifetimes ago, buried somewhere in the recesses. I still haven't seen about the first half of the series since it originally aired. So it was like this huge nostalgic rush or something.
But ANYWAY, I've drifted way off the topic at hand.
Mr. Davis. LOL
It seems like he brings out the "I don't know WHAT" in people.
This is the silliest thing:
I mean, I don't even know this guy, have never met or spoken to him, BUT.....On Sunday at the Fest, I was on my way out, sort of strolling down the hall with my kids, and Roger Davis was coming down the hall in in our direction - moving very quickly, looking like he was going somewhere real important. Anyway, when he was almost upon us, I blurted out, "Oh my! It's Roger Davis," for no apparent reason.
(And in a sort of a sarcastically, bored voice)
He said "hi" very quickly and kept moving. LOL
(I dunno.....LAFB seemed to find it slightly amusing)
I was sort of scratching my head afterwards, thinking, "What the....why in HELL did I do THAT?" I would never do that at someone I don't know - especially any of the actors!
Yes, Roger Davis is indeed special. Only he could elicit something like that from me. I don't know....it's all a mystery to me. A baffling mystery.