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When I attended the last Dark Shadows convention, Lara had mentioned that she was teaching English classes at college. Imagine having Lara as your English teacher!
Anyway, I recently came across this site where students can rate their teachers and leave comments, and I remembered Lara, so I entered her name in the search engine (not her stage name, but her real name) and guess who's name came up! I was amused to read what her students thought about. I assume her students are primarily young kids (19 or 20 year-olds) and they probably have no idea of their teacher's alter ego--unless she told them (which I doubt).
She mostly got good reviews. Nobody said anything nasty, but there are a few amusing comments in the mix. I would like to post the link if I can, but I don't want to break any rules, so I thought I'd better ask first.
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Given the way you describe the site/comments, there's no problem with posting the link. And actually, we don't police links - members check them out at their own risk. (Not that there would seem to be any risk with that site. [snow_wink])
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Which name was she listed under?
It could be Mary Hawkins, Lamar Hawkins, or Lamar Rickey, all of which have been legal names of her's over the years.
Better yet, please do post the link!
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Oh, good. Here's the link:
http://ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1172553 (http://ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1172553)
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Glad to see she accepts late work!! Too cool. That is totally awesome she teaches. Thanks for the link.
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It's also nice to see that she's gotten mostly positive comments. Why do I suspect the earliest one was posted by someone who didn't do well in the class? Oh, because people who do do well don't post comments like that...
It's also nice to see that Lara's teaching style is pretty much the same as she comes across at the Fests: "her kookiness wins me over, love her dry sense of humor," and "an engaging style that is never boring."
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My favorite is "pretty big butt for an old white lady!" bahahahahahaha! I can't believe the things some people post on that site.
But it really isn't surprising that she's such an excellent teacher. She's so personable at the fests, from the few times I shared short conversations with her she seemed like my kinda gal.
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Lara does have beautiful penmanship I will say!! About ten years or so ago my wife ordered an autographed pic from her website. She hand addresses the envelopes and wrote a nice little note inside. Very cool lady.
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That is really neat having Laura Parker as a english teacher. Thanks for sharing Ronny G.
Love Anne [snow_kiss]
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Slightly off topic, but I'd heard that Margaret Hamilton was a kindergarten teacher before she became famous as a certain witch from Oz. I always wondered what her kids thought of her.
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Neat find. I actually used a similar site back in college when these kinds of things were first popping up on the internet. The whacky comments are par for the course. It would be interesting to have Ms Parker as a teacher but i think I'd get along better with KLS as a teacher. She seems like she'd be a favorite. Too bad we can't go back in time to get ratings for Mr Selby when he was teaching in grad school. I can only imagine some of the comments! [snow_blush]
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Too bad we can't go back in time to get ratings for Mr Selby when he was teaching in grad school. I can only imagine some of the comments! [snow_blush]
I'm pretty sure his teaching stint was limited to a semester or two, and, by his own admission, he sucked. Then again, any grad student who thinks s/he is a brilliant teacher in the first few semesters probably has a tenuous grip on reality.
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Roger Davis told me he taught also. One assignment he gave involved his taking off his shoe and placing it on the podium. He told his students to write about it. I wonder what it would have been like to be in his class!!!
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I wonder what it would have been like to be in his class!!!
That's something I don't even want to contemplate - ever. And IF I have a nightmare about it, I'm coming after you for mentioning it. [b003]
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Slightly off topic, but I'd heard that Margaret Hamilton was a kindergarten teacher before she became famous as a certain witch from Oz. I always wondered what her kids thought of her.
While not as a teacher, I know someone here in NYC who's family owned a restaurant MH used to frequent in the Village. He says she was always so nice, you'd never have known she was the WWW.
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Roger Davis told me he taught also. One assignment he gave involved his taking off his shoe and placing it on the podium. He told his students to write about it. I wonder what it would have been like to be in his class!!!
Well if there was a hole on the top, we could all write about how it arrived there.."one day an actress, p*ssed off by a young actor, ground her high heel into the top of a shoe as a camera ran...bringing tears to the eyes of the hapless young man~~"
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Maybe Roger was teaching a course about foot fetishism!
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[snow_bigglass]
Then again, like any good teacher, Roger was trying to keep his students on their toes!
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I wonder if Parker ever gives the Angelique angry eyes when someone messes up in her class. I can just see her starting to chant as she glares at the student.......with a pin poised at their paper....... [snow_scream]
and then that haunting laugh.......
okay, i'm done. thanks for indulging me! gotta love Angelique!
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I doubt she does any of that, but it would be hilarious if she did - especially being poised with a pin at a student's paper! [lghy]
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i was once on the receiving end of the angelique glare...chills!
at my first fest(brooklyn '03)lara was seated next to nancy barrett in the autograph line. at the time i had only seen the first year and a half or so(i was just beginning the barnabas episodes)so i hadn't gotten to lara's part of the series yet. i told her i hadn't yet seen her work on the show but would still like her autograph...
WELL. la parker was NOT amused. she coolly signed the program but treated me to the aforementioned glare. i'll never forget it. [snow_scream]
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i hadn't gotten to lara's part of the series yet. i told her i hadn't yet seen her work on the show but would still like her autograph...WELL. lara parker was NOT amused. she coolly signed the program but treated me to the aforementioned glare. i'll never forget it. [snow_scream]
Well, I'm sorry, but that just sounds rude. So you hadn't seen her portion of the show yet? Big deal. You were a new fan who happened onto the show just before your first Festival. Donna Wandrey and James Storm were gracious enough to show up at events for years before most people knew who they were. When I met Donna, I'd only heard her on some tapes of scattered episodes of 1840 and read about Roxanne in Kathy Resch's book Paradox. Donna could not have been nicer. I think it took some nerve for her to treat you like that. Yes, I've idolized her for years, and I still have great respect and awe for her, but I at this moment I have to be honest.
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to be honest, i'd have been a little taken aback by that, but then as i continued watching i'd have probably been honored that she gave me "the look"!
i have always said that i loved how she broke the 4th wall with her glares and bemused expressions as if we were in on the joke. pretty much brilliant acting tecnique for an afternoon soap on her part, eh?
true, MB, i don't think she'd have done that in class, but it would have been cool. you get so used to seeing these people as their characters, that you don't know how they are in real life.
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yeah i certainly don't hold it against lara.
in retrospect i think it's funny. it is something of an honor to have been given "the look".
my first introduction to diana millay was just as weird. [snow_shocked]
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Well, I'm not saying I'd hold it against her either, not in the long term. It's the sort of thing that would probably tick me off, and then I'd get over it. It wouldn't be worth holding a grudge over.
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With all due respect, I can remember a couple of times when Lara was "breaking the fourth wall" because she was clearly searching for the TelePrompTer.
An entirely honorable occupation on our series, of course...
G.
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true, but i am talking about how she ended a dramatic scenes and looked into the camera. most of the cast did look for their elusive friend, and most learned how to incorporate it into the act.
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i know what you mean and it's a trick that really only angelique employed on the series.
one scene that comes to mind is when "cassandra" first meets maggie evans and decides that she shall initiate the dream curse through her.
staring up at barnabas' portrait she announces that the "dream shall begin with one who looks like josette"...then breaking the fourth wall completely and addressing the viewer directly..."nothing could be more appropriate, could it?".
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All I can say is even if you are annoyed or having a bad day. You should always treat the fans as if they are gold. DS survives on it fandom. Lara and all the others should bless their luck that they were able to be on the show and still make money with the connection to it. Even JF, in his later years have been able to make some money and that may have made his later financial years easier, maybe?
There are many actors and musicians, that would love to have fans that follow them and support them. If your main purpose at a festival is to meet with the fans, you should do it with a smile, now I am off of my soap box.
As to the teaching job, and working with students, you have to be really careful.