DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '24 I => Current Talk '08 I => Topic started by: retzev on March 07, 2008, 10:53:59 AM
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Off the top of my head:
Tim Burton
Johnny Depp
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Don't forget Stephen King and Stephen Mark Rainey. [snow_bigglass]
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Madonna
Oprah
Whoopi Goldberg
Bruce Springsteen
When DS Mania struck in 1968, Jackie Onassis stated publicly that she "gave it a whirl"!
KL Scott says that she got fan mail from Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward.
David
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There was that mention on Gilmore Girls, so one or both of the Sherman-Palladinos (GG creators/writers) I guess.
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Passions creator/writer James Reilly writes DS references into Passions scripts.
David
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Penny Dreadful
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I believe I read that Tricia Nixon watched it. This would be during the original airing while her father was president.
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Penny Dreadful
LOL! Make that infamous please - at least that's what the angry villagers with torches tell me.
A couple I can think of off the top of my hat...
Anne Rice
Dave Vanian from The Damned
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I believe I read that Tricia Nixon watched it. This would be during the original airing while her father was president.
Frid was photographed at the White House in 1969 for Tricia's birthday party.
Yes, she was a BIG fan!
David
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Rosie O'Donnell?
She's a big soap fan.
Even after coming out & getting involved in lesbian rights/women's issues, Rosie still mentions her All My Children addiction, and she still hasn't forgiven ABC for cancelling Loving & Ryan's Hope!
Barbra Streisand?
Isn't that how Selby got Up the Sandbox~~the only Barbra male lead who wasn't a Redford category superstar.
Hmmmmm.........
David
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Oprah
Whoopi Goldberg
Maybe when the festival is on in LA, Maybe the DS stars could do a show on Oprah or the View.
Especially with JF coming.
Anyone have any contacts?
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Maybe when the festival is on in LA, Maybe the DS stars could do a show on Oprah or the View.
Especially with JF coming.
Anyone have any contacts?
Oprah's in Chicago.
The View's in New York.
David
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One infamous fan is former NY club kid Michael Alig (who had his story told in a movie called "Party Monster") who is in jail for murder. When the police found him with his van, it was full of DS videotapes and was mentioned in the papers at the time.
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One infamous fan is former NY club kid Michael Alig (who had his story told in a movie called "Party Monster") who is in jail for murder. When the police found him with his van, it was full of DS videotapes and was mentioned in the papers at the time.
Wow... I wonder if those tapes are in the cell with him right now... DS probably doesn't go over in the 'joint' very well though...
Oprah's in Chicago.
Well, I'll just ring her up then.... don't worry, it's in the bag!
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so la alig was a fan?
that's pretty hot.i actually knew alig's partner in crime 'freeze' quite well back in my college days in boston.he dated a classmate of mine and even then was a total creep.whatev.
sometime ago i read andy warhol "superstar" and drag legend 'holly woodlawn's' autobiography 'lowlife in high heels' and she wrote an amusing passage about how back in the day she and her fellow east village freaks used to shoot up heroin,pile onto a bed and watch d.s..
the visual was just too much!
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I saw the ultra-creepy Michael Alig biopic with that grown-up Home Alone (we always called it "homo alone" back in the day) kid in the title role and I remember whispering to a friend as we watched, "Macauley really ISN'T acting here, is he?" SCARY.
Hadn't heard that Alig was a DS fan, but it kind of figures. As for Warhol, Candy, et al., I've heard that they watched regularly in the Factory with everyone stoned ... blitzed out of their minds. I often think of that now whenever they turn on the psychedelic effects and Grayson intones "Find the center of the light."
There have been several mentions on these boards about Quentin Tarantino (who I guess is pretty much washed up now?) being a huge DS fan and appearing on those late night chat shows with his Barnabas cane.
G.
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Gale Sondergaard and Neil Simon visited the studio at different times.
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I don't think Quentin Tarantino is washed up, Grindhouse was really fun. Apparently at the moment he's working on a WWII period movie.
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Fritz Lang, who directed Joan Bennett in four 1940s movies, visited the studio & coached Joan
on her DS role.
David
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I read somewhere that Jackie Onassis was a big DS fan.
I know Madonna liked DS while growing up.
Nancy
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Careful, G. People said John Travolta was washed up too about twenty years ago. [snow_laugh]
Nancy
There have been several mentions on these boards about Quentin Tarantino (who I guess is pretty much washed up now?)
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Fritz Lang, who directed Joan Bennett in four 1940s movies, visited the studio & coached Joan
on her DS role.
Really? That's pretty cool. Let's consider that a placeholder until I think of something interesting to say. I'm waking up right now.
Re the Warhol crowd... I have no life. I have not done a damn thing. I realize that all we're talking about is some people getting blitzed and watching DS, but I guess I'm imagining people off somewhere living cool Bohemian lives while... I just woke up and already I'm on the verge of complaining about my life. Well, I've got the DS, and a TV, now all I need are the drugs, I guess... oh yes, and other humans....
Tarantino: He doesn't make films often. Several years can go by between films for him. That's not the same as being washed up.
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Re Tarantino: I checked on the IMDB and he currently has a film in production. So, no, he's not washed up; just a laughingstock among hipsters in Cambridge, Mass. (a fate he shares with many among the great and good).
I'm sure that Fritz Lang only stopped by the DS set because Joan Bennett was a friend of his (he called her "lazy legs" and apparently the nickname stuck to the point where they used it in, I think, Scarlet Street). KLS in her first book which is now long out of print said that when Lang was visiting the set, he "made a few lighting suggestions" which were instantly used. I thought THAT was very cool.
G.
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KLS in her first book which is now long out of print said that when Lang was visiting the set, he "made a few lighting suggestions" which were instantly used. I thought THAT was very cool.
Very cool indeed.