I'm questioning the need for this remake.  The original is a classic for most of us of "a certain age," and I think for many younger people who were born years after the 1975 film.  Also, we have the recent BBC live version of the stage show, which I thought was great!  This remake is going to have some pretty big teddies to fill...

I don’t intend to open up a controversial “can of worms” in this post, but after watching (for the first time in many years) DS episode 385, in which Abigail and Trask—in their religious fervor—accuse Victoria of being a witch, I cannot help but compare Abigail and Trask to Kimberly Davis, the religious fanatic in Kentucky, who used her religious beliefs to deny marriage licenses to gay couples.  How appropriate that DS, which (I believe) has a large gay following, made such comments about religious fanatics almost 50 years ago!

Seriously?  Maybe I've been living in a cave, but we now have reality TV lip-sync competitions?  Like Dancing with the Has-Beens?  (Except JG-L is no has-been.)  I cannot believe that the general public actually watches this stuff.  At least DS--in spite of its flaws--was creative and original, and captured the attention of those of us who were looking for something new in the late 1960s.

Sorry,  but I cannot validate this program.  I'm actually insulted that the TV networks consider this a "talent" venue.

I hope this post doesn’t annoy too many people, since it does not have anything to do with DS—directly, that is—but I have been watching shows on “The Carol Burnett Show—The Lost Episodes” set since last week when I received the collection and I must say that I am in heaven watching these shows, many of which ran concurrently with DS in the late 60s—early 70s.  As a DS fan of a “certain age” (oh, well, I’m almost 60!), CB was another show from my youth.  If I can watch CB and DS to the end of my days, I will die happy. 

Well, Frank Smith was shot and killed and died (as I understand it, AGAIN), so maybe two day's work (or one, actually, since they now shoot multiple episodes in a single day) didn't interest Mr. Ryan.  Just speculating...

Thanks for the well wishes.  It was a good day--even if it brings me yet another year closer to 60.  LOL.

Thanks, this is the one!

yes, MB. In his Ohio hometown after he left New York.

I knew Keith back in the early 1980s, after he returned from New York to Dayton, Ohio.  He started the Kettering Theater Under the Stars, and ran it for many years, I think nearly up until he died.  About "Cruising," Keith told me that he originally had a larger role in the film, and had been slated to be one of the victims--but his role was either cut before shooting or "left on the cutting room floor."