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Calendar Events / Announcements '17 I / Roger Davis in RUBY (1977)

« on: January 26, 2017, 06:59:21 PM »

Roger Davis must have found his role in RUBY (1977) reminiscent of his days on DS. I found this trailer for the film. It was directed by Curtis Harrington who did some excellent TV films in the same era, including THE CAT CREATURE with Gale Sondergaard in the kind of role Grayson might have played, and THE DEAD DON'T DIE.

The trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De7es8HMevw

G.

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« on: January 26, 2017, 05:44:46 PM »

Poor doomed Willie called Collinwood a hellhole. If only he had known...

G.

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Current Talk '17 I / Re: The Dark Shadows Hand is Real!

« on: January 26, 2017, 03:30:12 AM »

It's nice that something like this actually showed them a clip including Magda!

The guy might also have been remembering the spectral hand of Barnabas which appeared in a certain incident in 1795. Hard to say. Most likely this was somebody who watched the show on Sci Fi in the 1990s.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '17 I / Re: CAMPY FUN WITH DARK SHADOWS: HEIRESS OF COLLINWOOD

« on: January 26, 2017, 03:24:52 AM »

That "review" seemed unusually pointless, even for something on the "blogosphere."

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '17 I / Re: KLS: Offer Limited While Supply Lasts

« on: January 18, 2017, 12:47:14 AM »

There were some wonderful photos of Thayer David browsing in an antiques store in my Scrapbook Memories, and a truly priceless photo of Katie, Grayson and Joan wearing black miniskirt ensembles for the funeral scene. The photos are the main reason I have kept the book.

G.

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« on: January 17, 2017, 07:38:45 PM »

Willie Loomis, chauffeur.

That seems somehow more horrifying, at least potentially, than anything that happens onscreen in hoDS. LOL!

Brilliant captures, MB! I have to watch some 1966 shows again!!

Bouncily, G.

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« on: January 15, 2017, 07:14:59 PM »

I know I'm unduly fussy about this stuff, but IMO, had Clarice played Mrs. Johnson, the line would have sounded properly in character if she had said Davy, not David.

When she spoke to him, I remember her calling him Davy. But that could be a misremembering...

G.

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« on: January 14, 2017, 07:53:18 PM »

Roger's dialogue explains something else that always throws me for a loop whenever I watch this film. Obviously, at some point there was a scene where Maggie informed Roger and Liz that she was resigning. Then Barn turns on the charm at the ball and Maggie suddenly changes her mind. The ball scene doesn't really make sense unless you already know the story since there has been nothing shown or said about Maggie leaving up till that point. There's at least a hint here that Roger thinks it would be a good idea for Miss Evans to go on a "vacation."

Another reason why these early scenes would have been helpful from a narrative point of view is that they establish who is who--as you've pointed out. In Elvira's rap about the movie (her clips talking about it, I guess from when she ran it on her show, are on Youtube), she keeps saying, "Who are all these people anyway?" Initially I thought she was just being characteristically sassy. But if you've never seen the show, the movie really tells you very little about just who anybody is and why they're there.

G.

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« on: January 11, 2017, 09:10:25 PM »

I can see why all of this was either never shot, or cut. I presume DC excised most of this before he even delivered his completed print to MGM.

I of course would have loved to have seen it all, especially Roger complaining that nobody would leave him in peace and quiet to get on with his Proust... and brandy.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '17 I / Re: Odd appearance of the original Josette music box theme

« on: January 11, 2017, 05:45:32 PM »

It's worth mentioning Michael Gough's role in the 1965 episode "The Cybernauts." I think Dame Diana Rigg said in a talk she did a year or so ago at the British Film Institute that "The Cybernauts" was the first episode she filmed. Michael Gough played a very 1960s styled mad scientist, wheelchair-bound. In the color season a year or so later, he appeared in a more comic-flavored turn as a Russian spy scheming to turn the tables on Steed and Mrs. Peel. The delightful Anna Quayle also appeared, as did Philip Madoc--both were noted for other genre appearances. The episode was titled "The Correct Way to Kill."

Bringing it back at least slightly to DS, THE AVENGERS was a huge hit for ABC in 1967, the same year that DS started to be big. And it all happened 50 years ago now.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '17 I / Re: Dark Shadows comic strip artist Ken Bald

« on: January 10, 2017, 07:44:31 PM »

Hi Gerard, I might be misremembering, but what I recall about the Hermes Press edition is that they wanted to print all the Sunday strips in full color. However they were having trouble getting a complete set of the original prints of the strips for reference purposes.

In the early 1970s I cut out all the Sunday strips and pasted them into a scrapbook I kept. However, the local paper stopped carrying it before the strip had ceased. I almost never got to see the dailies, either.

I did have the Pom Press book but gave it away to a friend several years ago.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '16 II / Re: Heiress of Condowood

« on: January 09, 2017, 06:20:27 AM »

That's pretty funny. Lara Parker's name (in what is laughingly called real life) is Lamar Hawkins.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '16 II / Re: Heiress of Condowood

« on: January 09, 2017, 01:12:33 AM »

This is pretty close to off-topic, especially for this thread. But at the moment I'm reading GENERATION LOSS by Elizabeth Hand. It's the first in a series of three novels (to date) featuring anti-hero Cassandra Neary, a middle-aged punk survivor from the 70s. In this first book, Cass travels to an isolated island off the coast of Maine where she encounters some very unusual people, and visits the ruins of an abandoned hippie commune from 1973.

One of the towns in the area on the mainland is called Collinstown. I can't help wondering if that is a nod in our direction from Ms. Hand. Her books suggest that she might have enjoyed DS both as a child and later on (she's around my age).

G.

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« on: January 08, 2017, 11:33:54 PM »

Well, I was 12 when I saw hoDS and my sister was 11, and neither of our parents came to see the movie with us. We were dropped off and then picked up afterwards.

I really can't recall if the movie gave me nightmares. My Mom hated DS so it seems remarkable that she allowed us to go.

G.

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« on: January 08, 2017, 10:55:12 PM »

Hanging David! One of the most infamous moments in DS history... there was a much more widely circulated photo that showed up in many mags way back when. Kind of funny that they wound up deleting the scene after all that exposure.

That's an incredible still you found, MB. Congratulations!

Best, G.

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