SHADOWGRAM NEWS UPDATE   # 343
January 26, 2015

Hello, Dark Shadows Fan,
 
ShadowGram (SG), The Official Newsletter & News Source for Dark Shadows (DS), announces the following key breaking news in this Official DS News Online Update "bulletin."
 
**** SG PREMIERE ANNOUNCEMENT:
MPI TO RELEASE 2 NEW DVD COLLECTIONS: “BEST OF ANGELIQUE” & “BEST OF QUENTIN”
 
**** 2 DS ACTORS IN NEW INDEPENDENT FILM
 
 
**** “ANGELIQUE” & “QUENTIN” – KEY EPISODES COMPILATION DVDS
 
SG is asked to premiere-announce:
MPI is following up its 2012 releases of “Best of Barnabas” and “Fan Favorites” with 2 upcoming new DVD collections: “Best of Angelique” and “Best of Quentin.”
 
The “Barnabas” and “Fan Favorites” compilations each featured full-length episodes spanning the entire original DS run. There also were new introductions by Kathryn Leigh Scott and Lara Parker, plus bonus material with David Selby, Jonathan Frid, and Kathryn.
 
Later this year MPI plans to issue 2 additional separate DVDs in the DS "Best of" series, one devoted to Quentin (DAVID SELBY) and one focused on Angelique (LARA PARKER). The following episodes will be represented, along with bonus features which will be announced by SG when they are confirmed.
 
DARK SHADOWS - The Best of Angelique
                         
1. Episode #368/369 : In the year 1795, vengeful witch Angelique arrives at Collinwood from Martinique.             
2. Episode #405: Angelique places a vampire curse on Barnabas Collins after he shoots her.                                                 
3. Episode #477: In 1968, Angelique appears to Barnabas in a dream to announce a new vampire curse.
4. Episode #499: An aged Cassandra arrives when artist Sam Evans alters the ancient portrait of Angelique.
5. Episode #606: As a vampire, Angelique attacks Barnabas while he is again a mortal.
6. Episode #852: In 1897, Angelique pursues a romance with Quentin, and Lady Kitty has a frightening dream.
7. Episode #1003: During Parallel Time 1970, the evil Angelique poses as her twin sister Alexis.
8. Episode #1130: In 1840, Angelique appears and announces that she is Barnabas' wife.
9. Episode #1140: Angelique recalls when, as Miranda DuVal, she testified against the warlock Judah Zachary.
 
DARK SHADOWS - The Best of Quentin
           
1. Episode #694: In 1969, the Collins family abandons Collinwood, which is haunted by the ghost of Quentin Collins.
2. Episode #714: In the year 1897, Quentin learns his family's fate with the reading of his grandmother's will.
3. Episode #722: Angelique resurrects Quentin as a zombie, who then possesses young Jamison.
4. Episode #786: Under a werewolf curse, Quentin recites “Shadows of the Night” in Charity Trask's nightmare.
5. Episode #836: In 1969, the ghost of Beth Chavez reveals how Quentin died in 1897.           
6. Episode #905: Closely resembling Quentin, Grant Douglas appears in Collinsport, suffering from amnesia.
7. Episode #984: During Parallel Time 1970, Quentin and his bride Maggie struggle with the supernatural.
8. Episode #1065: In 1995. Barnabas Collins and Dr. Julia Hoffman discover Quentin has gone insane.                           
9. Episode #1129: In 1840, Quentin reveals to Barnabas the history of the evil warlock Judah Zachary.
 
The upcoming new SG #124 Official DS Published Newsletter / subsequent print issues and future SG Official DS News Online Updates will announce and report further confirmed information about these 2 new “Best Of” DS compilation releases.
 
**** JERRY LACY & LISA RICHARDS IN NEW FILM
 
JERRY (Tony Peterson, Rev. Trask, Lamar Trask, Gregory Trask) and LISA (Sabrina Stuart) are in THE LAST CASE OF AUGUST T. HARRISON, now filming in the Los Angeles area. Writer/director Ansel Faraj anticipates its digital HD release in Nov., 2015.
 
Press Release: In the “contemporary Lovecraftian film noir…thriller,” Jerry’s title character is a “private eye (who) comes out of retirement” to investigate “á bizarre missing persons case.” He’s soon tangled “in a dark conspiracy involving the writings of H.P. Lovecraft. Are Lovecraft’s tales just fiction? Or do they hold the secrets of the cosmos?”
 
Ansel’s Hollinsworth Productions has featured DS actors Jerry, Lisa, Chris Pennock, Kathryn Leigh Scott, and Lara Parker in previous independent and short films.
 
Webpage:  http://www.hollinsworthproductions.com/the-last-case-of-august-t-harrison.html
IMDB:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4041320/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_2

(Oh yea, MB.  )

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I think you mean "Horror Express".  Where did you buy it?  If it was Amazon, you should let them know.

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DS actors MARIE WALLACE, JERRY LACY, KATHRYN LEIGH SCOTT and LARA PARKER join approximately 100 fans from across the US and Canada.

Did Kathy Cody bail?

SHADOWGRAM NEWS UPDATE   # 340
 
January 5, 2015
 
Hello, Dark Shadows Fan,
 
ShadowGram (SG), The Official Newsletter & News Source for Dark Shadows (DS), announces the following key breaking news in this Official DS News Online Update "bulletin."
 
PLEASE NOTE:
DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF RECENT DS NEWS, SG UPDATE # 340 AND  SG UPDATE # 341 BOTH ARE BEING POSTED TODAY, JANUARY 5, 2015.
 
--- IN THIS SG UPDATE # 340:
 
**** DAVID SELBY & SUSAN SULLIVAN HONORED FOR PLAY PERFORMANCES
 
**** DONNA WANDREY TO APPEAR IN PLAY IN NORTH CAROLINA
 
**** JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT MARRIES
 
**** LYNDHURST ESTATE FEATURED ON SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL SHOW
AND DS FANS ENCOURAGED TO SUPPORT LYNDHURST
 
**** GREYSTONE IS FILMING LOCATION FOR MARVEL’S NEW TV SERIES
 
 
--- IN THE SOON-TO-FOLLOW SG UPDATE # 341:
 
**** IN MEMORIAM – 2014
 
**** DARK SHADOWS REMEMBRANCES
 
**** 2015 DS CALENDAR HAS RARE PHOTOS FROM 1970 & 1971 DS MOVIES
 
**** DS CARIBBEAN CRUISE – SAILING JAN. 10-17, 2015
 
 
----------- HERE IS SHADOWGRAM OFFICIAL DS NEWS ONLINE UPDATE # 340:
 
**** DAVID SELBY, SUSAN SULLIVAN, & “A DELICATE BALANCE” AWARDED
 
SG is happy to share news that David provided this afternoon. Announced today: The 2014 production of “A Delicate Balance” received 6 awards from “the theater critics of www.ArtsinLA.com. The honors went to the entire production, director Robin Larsen, and 3 actors: David, Susan, and their co-star O-Lan Jones.
 
http://www.artsinla.com/ explained:  On 1-1-15 “the theater critics of ArtsInLA.com submitted their lists of the ‘Best of 2014’ in categories ranging from production through performances. Names appearing on 2 or more of the critics’ lists became winners of ArtsInLA.com’s second annual Sage Awards. The awards are named for the obvious reference to the wisdom we hope for, but also for the plant that covers the Los Angeles area, as we do.”
 
SG Update #313 (3-23-14) and subsequent SG Updates announced and reported the play staged at LA’s Odyssey Theatre 4-30/6-15-14. Numerous reviews highly praised the overall production and cast. The LA Times and other local media often cited it as a “Critics’ Pick.”
 
Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “A Delicate Balance” is very intense, full of complex characters seeking a balance – or trying to rationalize or escape how things really are. Long-married couple (Susan’s Agnes and David’s Tobias) must face the deeply hidden and ignored fractures in their relationships with each other, their adult daughter, their best friends, and the course of their lives. 
 
This marked the first time David (DS’ Quentin) and Susan (DS’ Ghost) had acted onstage together in a play. They had no scenes together on DS. But as stars in 1981-90’s FALCON CREST primetime series; their characters eventually married. They also performed the classic 2-character staged reading LOVE LETTERS as a 1-day benefit in Martinsburg, WV 10-10-2003.
 
 
***** DONNA WANDREY ONSTAGE IN PLAY IN N. CAROLINA
 
SG thanks Marie Wallace for relaying Donna’s news: Donna portrays “Polly” in OTHER DESERT CITIES at the Hanesbrand Theatre in downtown Winston-Salem, NC. Rehearsals start soon. Previews begin 2-11 with opening night 2-14. The run ends 3-1.
 
Publicity: “A contemporary comic drama. Returning to Palm Springs, CA, to celebrate the holidays with her family for the first time in years, Brooke Wyeth reveals plans to publish a memoir. As she threatens to disclose the most painful moment in the family history, Brooke’s parents must come to terms with her choices. Through battles over perception and fact, Brooke soon discovers that even secrets have secrets of their own.”
 
The production is through the “professional not-for-profit Triad Stage organization, serving the Triad area.”
 
The Hanesbrands Theatre is at 209 Spruce Street North, Winston-Salem, NC 27101. Box Office:  (336) 272-0160, or (866) 569-TIXX    http://triadstage.org/hanesbrands   Driving directions: http://triadstage.org/visit
 
 
**** JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT & TASHA McCAULEY WED
 
SG congratulates Joe (1991 DS’ David, Daniel) and his wife Tasha McCauley on their 12-20-14 wedding. 
 
His PR representative Erica Grey confirms the private ceremony was held at the couple’s home. It’s well-known that Joe values his privacy, very rarely talking about his relationship.
 
SG Online Updates and SG in print have long included Joe’s own news, also sharing and applauding his many-faceted talents, career, and creative interests. His innovative hitRECord.org collaborative production company openly encourages and works with people of every type worldwide. Its Pivot cable TV series “hitRECord ON TV” won a Creative Arts Interactive Media Emmy Award last summer for its first season of episodes. (See SG Update # 328 – 8-27-14)
 
Tasha is the co-founder and CEO of Fellow Robots, a robotics company based at NASA Research Park in the Silicon Valley, CA. She has a Masters from USC and has taught about robotics, artificial intelligence, and other technologies at the university level. “She is a director of the Ten to the Ninth Plus Foundation, an organization focused on “empowering exponential technological change worldwide.” An area of interest is “how technology can facilitate and enhance creativity.”
 
Joe’s involved in directing, producing, screenwriting, acting, and other projects. In 2014 he starred in SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR. He’s also seen briefly in the recent controversial comedy THE INTERVIEW, co-directed by his friend Seth Rogen, who was his co-star in 2011’s 50/50 movie.
 
 
**** LYNDHURST ESTATE IN NEW SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL SHOW
**** PLEASE SUPPORT LYNDHURST – D S MOVIES’ “COLLINWOOD”
 
--- Promotional footage for the Smithsonian Channel’s new historical/biographical series, MILLION DOLLAR AMERICAN PRINCESSES, was filmed at Lyndhurst.
 
Publicity: “An in-depth look at the young American heiresses whose real-life stories inspired the acclaimed TV drama DOWNTON ABBEY. This series explores the time between the 1870s and the outbreak of World War One, when more than 200 daughters of America’s new industrial millionaires marry into the money-strapped British aristocracy. They use their affluence, allure and ingenuity to their advantage, and they bring dramatic changes to the English ruling class and eventually the world.”   
 
Smithsonian website schedule: http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/sc/web/series/1003587/million-dollar-american-princesses
 
Please check your local listings. The website and its brief biographies of the individual women do not mention Lyndhurst.
 
---- Please support Lyndhurst
 
Over the years, each Fest gathering at Lyndhurst and nearby locations has benefited ongoing restoration and maintenance of the historic estate. SG celebrates that recent DS Festival events there have raised over $20,000 for the preservation of Lyndhurst.
 
The estate is part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation but relies heavily on public support. On 12-27 Lyndhurst shared: “We're growing. With expanded programs, more concerts, new exhibitions and free lectures, Lyndhurst continues to welcome members of our community” and visitors from near and far.  Please make a commitment to Lyndhurst and your contribution will help us for years to come. If you want to ensure that our beautiful 67 acre park stays open and vital, please help us today. As a private, non-profit, we only exist and thrive because you care.”
 
It is hoped DS fans will support the estate, its programs, upkeep, and legacy. Thank you.
To donate: https://secure2.convio.net/nthp/site/Donation2?df_id=13800&13800.donation=form1
 
Lyndhurst, 635 S. Broadway, Tarrytown, NY.  914-631-4481. www.lyndhurst.org
 
“Lyndhurst is considered one of the most significant architectural masterpieces of 19th century America. Designed by Alexander Jackson Davis, the preeminent American architect of his time, Lyndhurst contains important collections of Davis’ furniture, designed for the house and still in situ. Lyndhurst also displays significant collections of French 19th century academic paintings, 18th century French furniture and late 19th century American decorative art objects…. Your donation will help us restore objects and architectural details in the collection, both large and small, as well as support educational programs, curatorial research and preservation of this American Treasure.”
 
 
**** GREYSTONE ESTATE SETTING FOR MARVEL’S NEW “AGENT CARTER’” TV SERIES
 
Interiors, exteriors, and the grounds of Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills served as “Collinwood” and “The Old House” in NBC’s 1991 primetime TV revival DS series (1-13/3-22-1991). The 2004 pilot for a proposed new WB (Warner Brothers) DS series also shot on the estate.
 
Greystone currently is the production set for AGENT CARTER, the new 8-episode series based on the widely-popular Marvel Cinematic/TV universe. The ABC show debuts with a 2-hour episode Tues., Jan. 6.
 
LA Times 1-4: “Set in 1946,… (it) features a number of key characters from Marvel lore,
But with its espionage trappings and deft blend of adventure, comedy, and intrigue,… it’s a high-spirited caper.” The show “is set 1 year after (the movie) CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER… Should the show prove a breakout hit, the busy agent could return for further adventures.” TV Guide 1-5: The “lushly-produced, lavish adventure series brings) some old-style Hollywood glamour to primetime.”