Hey, ya gotta love that blue sailor suit!  By the way, IMHO, KLS looks far lovelier with the dark brown hair she was sporting today, than that reddish brown coif she had the other day.

Bob the Bartender, hair color consultant to Phyliss Diller and Mrs. Slocumbe.

Cassandra,

The name of that flick was "Not Without MY Daughter."  If Dan Curtis had done a DS spinoff of that film, he probably would have entitled it "Not Without My Leviathan Child."

Bob the Bartender, film afficionado

VAM,

How about Jeff Clark, who, while he managed to keep his hair perfectly coiffed as he dug up "Peter Bradford's" coffin, nevertheless accidentally knocked over Bill Malloy's (?) gravestone when the "Clark Bar" man stormed out of the Eagle Hill Cemetary?

Bob the Bartender, who also enjoyed seeing the learned T. Elliot Stokes dig up Barnabas' coffin earlier during this story line.

Sad news indeed.

Hey gang,

You gotta love the way that actor Duane Morris (Diabolos) delivered his lines with great grandiloquence yesterday.  By the way, has anyone ever seen a picture of Mr. Morris without that mask and hood on?

Mr. Morris is another one of those one (or two) DS episode performers who have become legendary in time.  You know, sort of like the lovely and alluring Lovelady Powell (Portia Fitzsimmons) or my personal hero/avatar Mr. Bob O'Connell (the beloved Bob Rooney).  Wouldn't it be great if some of these actors could appear at some upcoming DS festival?  (Just think of the thrill of meeting Daniel Keyes, the Mr. Magoo-like Eagle Hill Cemetary Caretaker!)

In addition, I thought that Nicholas was, as usual, sartorially splendid with that color-coordinated gray umbrella he was sporting yesterday.


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For another example of great grandiloquence on Dark Shadows, I direct you to actor Peter Lombard (Oberon) in the upcoming Leviathan story line.  I tell you, the guy sounds like a young and upcoming Al Gore!  (Of course, Oberon's associate, Hazar, is silent, but she's very easy on the eyes.)

Bob the Bartender, former speech instructor to Joe Pesci and Fran Drescher

Hey gang,

I would have liked to seen Jeff Clark transform into a werewolf.  Just think of him, positively frenetic as he undergoes the transformation into the wild beast: clutching the hair on top of his head, the hair on his face, the hair on his chest, the hair on his labanza, the hair on his...., well... you get the idea, don't you?

Bob the Bartender, who always tries to keep his hands to himself.

Dear Cassandra,

Many years ago, (after DS had been off the air for a number of years) I was sitting in an off Broadway theatre, reading the playbill for a show called "Moonchildren."  The play dealt with a group of college students who lived in an apartment building.  Mr. McMillan played the likable (and exceedingly foul-mouthed) superintendent of the apartment building.

Anyway, the playbill listed Dark Shadows as one of Mr. McMillan's past credits.  I sat there, trying to remember just who he played on the show.  It wasn't until the local PBS station started airing Dark Shadows that I saw that the late, great Mr. McMillan portrayed:

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Sailor Jack Long who tries unsuccessfully to help the doomed Paul Stoddard escape the Leviathans and also the apparently unnamed Paralled Time 1970 bartender (and Bob Rooney's putative PT counterpart) who runs/owns the Eagle Tavern.  (The place of employment for the immortal Buffie Harrington.)