That name, David Nahmod, is familiar for some reason or other
the direct link is too long and too many characters/numbers in the address for me to do it correctly and i cant or dont kow how to do cut and paste on webtv. maybe someone else here can do it. otherwise u have to select video and then enter dark shadows into their search engine. yes david nahmod is a friend of mine and has posted here before and hes directed the video mentioned and wrote for various magazines. he needs to vent his frustrations with fandom. 1 of his posts to a fan webpage has caused her to close her guestbook. what power!
he needs to vent his frustrations with fandom.
1 of his posts to a fan webpage has caused her to close her guestbook. what power!
I am a friend of David's and he is right in reference to the fans.
I find it impossible to talk to anyone at the fests as they want to be alone or with their clique of friends. It's like "Who are you to come to talk to me?" I have been to the NY fests since 1995 and have not been able to talk to anyone in regards to DS, there is a lot of cold shoulder going on.
Some fans use the fests as a cruising area too.
Some fans use the fests as a cruising area too.
The generalizations this gentleman made in his "review" are, of course, just that. He basically pegged the performers as has-beens. Several of them and others involved in DS went on to be either nominated for, or have won, Oscars, Emmys and Tonys.
Sweeping generalizations are usually very inaccurate or patently untrue. And vitriolic outbursts like this one, which offers nothing but subjective views tainted by an obviously negative experience, belong on Live Journal or--dare I say it--some unmoderated newsgroup, assuming it's necessary to devote the time to articulating it in the first place. Being anything but an objective commentary, it says an awful lot more about the writer than the video or the individuals on the video.
It's interesting the term "has-beens" isn't it? I've never really understood what the term meant. If it refers to the fact that once time popular actors are not popular or don't work as actors anymore, that's a pretty limited and shallow view of the world. Few people have a professional life that is consistently successful and most actors who do work in the business are never known at all ever to the general public. Yet they will consider themselves very successful because they do work in their field or have at least had the experience in having some success in an enormously difficult and competitive field. I think being able to work in one's chosen field at all is a great accomplishment, especially given the degree of difficulty in the arts.
Nobody is ever a "has been." The talent is there and if that performer was able to touch even one person in a special way, it makes them forever memorable.
nancy
Here's the direct link:
http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?WRK=5540441&userid=32LENJF1H5
This guy has some serious issues.
If you object to cruelity and pettiness in others, then obviously object to it because you don't engage in it yourself, right?
Dear Midnite who are we talking about here?
Whose David??? I hope i don't have to kick myself
for this Question
Whose David???
Dear Midnite who are we talking about here?
Whose David??? I hope i don't have to kick myself
for this Question anne who just came in on all
this. Love Anne
I think Connie and Annie would agree that there is only one David with whom we need to concern ourselves. :-*
There's often a double standard regarding "has-beens." True, many people think of an entertainer who is no longer in the limelight as a has-been. On the other hand, if the entertainer hangs on to the top spots year after year, people consider him or her a dinosaur ("He's been around forever. Shouldn't he have retired by now?").--Mark
(Wondering whatever happened to Engelbert Humperdinck...)
Wondering whatever happened to Engelbert Humperdinck...)
hey Midnite went back to take picture of Connie and the q man off my post saw it was gone did you do it? Thanks you're fast girl!
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! CONNIE THAT PHOTO OF THE Q-MAN
YUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THOSE BLUE JEANS HE LOOKS GORGEOUS IN THEM!!!
Help Anne is losing control wait till her Q-man starts
to talk then she'll be headed for WinCliff!!!
PS -- It's always nice to see pictures of stars like Connie looking so glamorous. But who's that scuzzy-looking chap hanging off of her arm?
I find it impossible to talk to anyone at the fests as they want to be alone or with their clique of friends.
Everybody that I've ever met at a DS event has been quite friendly; however, I have seen fans who tend to stick in defined groups....It's generally easier to be around people whom one has known for a few years than those met a few hours earlier. Rather than feeling slighted or discouraged, I feel more determined to continue my participation in fandom and even to broaden it.
There's often a double standard regarding "has-beens." True, many people think of an entertainer who is no longer in the limelight as a has-been. On the other hand, if the entertainer hangs on to the top spots year after year, people consider him or her a dinosaur
Anne! Control yourself! There are ladies (and gentlemen) here, who are now blushing! Just teasing! I know if I ever saw TLATKLS in person, I'd become a blabbering, heart-thumping-in-chest schoolboy madly in love, and then hit the floor in a dead faint. Can you imagine, Anne, if you and I were in a room at the same time when the Q-Man and TLATKLS entered together? We'd probably shatter the windows!
Gerard
Nobody is ever a "has been." The talent is there and if that performer was able to touch even one person in a special way, it makes them forever memorable.
nancy