DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '24 I => Current Talk '09 I => Topic started by: michael c on April 08, 2009, 02:29:51 AM
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literally.today.on the street in new york.at 60th and madison.i ran face to face into marie wallace...
i stopped her("excuse me ma'am"),introduced myself(even though we've met before)and told her what a huge fan i was of her and of dark shadows.
she was so nice.charming in fact.more than willing to spend five minutes chatting on the street with a fan of a forty year old show she appeared in.
i know we're supposed to keep "unconfirmed" information to a minimum but she did tell me she'd be at this year's fest,as well as jonathan frid,and lara parker and kathryn leigh scott too(all i believe have already been announced).she also "thought" john karlen might show up too.
i had a similar encounter with diana millay a few years ago and also spotted donna mckechnie but didn't approach.
funny but i see everybody where i work and am so jaded i don't bat an eye but i returned slightly giddy after my encounter with ms. wallace. [easter_rolleyes]
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Nice! I've spoken with her several times, as I know many people have because she's so outgoing with the fans, and I'm just amazed at how charming and warm she always is. It doesn't surprise me that she was so friendly on the streets of Manhattan and I'm really happy for you to have had the experience away from the Fests. LOVE her! [easter_kiss]
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I have always heard Marie is the best! I hope to met her one day at a fest....
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Isn't she just the sweetest, most charming person? I will never forget meeting her at the one and only DS Fest I attended back in '03. She called me and my friends over to her table (it was the last one in line and nobody had made it that far yet), saying: "Hey, boys, I'm lonely here! Come and talk to me!" And so we did for a long time. She gave us her undivided attention, and we gabbed about a myriad of things. She and a friend of mine discovered that they both had involvement for the same cause (pediatric AIDS) and she gave him her card, telling him if she could ever be of any help to call her. And, of course, we got the must-have autograph and photo shot with her. We would've just stayed and continued on kvetching with her until Robert Rodan, whose table was nearby, shouted: "Hey, Marie, stop hogging all the fans and send them over here!" Marie is just fantastic, the absolute best!
Gerard
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Thanks so much for sharing that story Gerard and what a lovely cause for her to be working for. We need more Marie Wallace's in this crazy world of ours..... [easter_wink]
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Funny to find this thread here since last night I watched the Jay Nass interview on one of the DVDs and he was talking about Marie and how even back in the old days she always had extra minutes to spare for the fans!
She's a wonderful, generous woman, and I'll never forget how electric she was onstage when she did a one-act set in a bar up on stage one year at a Festival. Sheer brilliance.
G.
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When I lived in NYC I ran into Marie a few times.
She always greeted me by name, smiled & chatted.
She's wonderful!
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David
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funny but i see everybody where i work . [easter_rolleyes]
You do run into everybody when you're out and about dontcha? As I recall-- [easter_grin]
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yes!
and if you'll recall i'm not shy. [easter_wink]
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No you were lovely after I realized you weren't hitting me up for change or subway directions (which I always give btw). [ghost_blink]
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Oh you all make my yearnings to live in NYC that much greater...........:daydreaming: [peace]
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Me too. I was there in very weird limited circumstances in 1965 and 1991. I'm the kind of person who ought to have made his way out of suburbs to something more urban decades ago.
Okay, the remaining question is how these two DS fans managed to run into each other by accident in NYC ....
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That sort of thing just never happens in L.A., sigh.
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That's where you are? I shall attempt to remember that. I've spent time in the northern half of that fictional land known as California (it was named after a fictional place in a novel, did you know that?).
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Yes, I've read that it's a possible source. But I didn't know you'd spent some time on the left coast. Cool!
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Yes Midnite, in 1979 and 1981-82, Berkeley. I literally get odd dreams pulling me back there still. It must represent something very important to me.
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Okay, the remaining question is how these two DS fans managed to run into each other by accident in NYC ....
Odd as it seems, I can see it. I had a similar adventure back in 89. I was working in Rockefeller Center that summer and fall, until the company moved up here to Westchester. I was at that time involved in Blakes 7 fandom, and was involved in a couple clubs for the show, one of which had only had a couple meetings out on Long Island.
I'm minding my business one day and who do I see walking through Rockefeller Center on her way back to work but Sharyn, whom I had met at these meetings in LI. We both did a double take, since we were wearing business suits and NOT the blue jeans and t shirts that most fans live in when not working. Turned out she was at that time working in the Chase headquarters on 6th Avenue. All the people who pass through Rockefeller Center every day, and that day we both happened to be crossing it at the same time in such a way to spot each other.
Jeannie
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I can see people who know each other meeting up accidentally in a big city. It happens a lot.
My best friend, Kay Fry, used to be involved in DS fandom until 1986. Up until that time, she met a lot of DS people and afterwards, when fans would come to my house, met more. One of them was Dale Clark, a long time DS fan in Texas who published a fanzine Inside the Old House (or something like that).
Anyway, Kay went down to Dallas to attend a conference for the company she was working for. One afternoon she decided to leave the hotel during a conference break and walk around the gardens. There was Dale Clark giving an informal lecture to a group of people on raising butterflies. That's what he does for a living - raise, sell and lecture on butterflies. They couldn't believe they were seeing each other under such completely random circumstances.
nancy
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i didn't want to start a new thread for this but yesterday i spotted an ancient abe vigoda crossing the street.
good grief how old is this man!? wasn't he already old as dirt when he played that silversmith(ezra braithwaite was it?)forty years ago?
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Nope, AG was younger than Jonathan Frid back then.
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Actually, he was only in his forties when he was on DS. Abe Vigoda was just one of those actors who looked "old" and got to play those parts of characters years and even decades older than his real age (and because of his youth could do it for a long time). He's in his later eighties now. Even Angela Landsbury was able to easily pull off the much-older-look when need be. In The Manchurian Candidate, she was only a few years older than the actor who played her adult son.
On DS, we had performers who could appear much older or younger when aquired and did it well. One I can quickly think of is Lara Parker. In 1795/96, she was probably not much older than Josette (21). In the Leviathan story line, she was closer (it seemed to me) to 30. In Parallel Time, she was at least 30. And don't forget how believable Carolyn looked as a woman close to 50 in 1995.
Gerard
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Since he couldn't take Abe to LA with him, a tearful Conan O'Brien-- in his final Late Night show-- released Abe into the wild (Central Park, actually) to be with his own kind, lol. Abe turned around once as he was leaving and Conan yelled, "No, just go!" Later in the show, he said Abe was in his backyard chewing on a bone. Too funny!!
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I so wish I could pick up NBC here. Conan's still great apparently.
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Aww to live in The Big Apple!
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To live in the Pacific Northwest, I must really be in the boonies. :)
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To live in the Pacific Northwest, I must really be in the boonies. :)
That's where I need to be, for health reasons and more. I haven't seen you here for awhile, welcome back!
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it happened yet again...
barbara blackburn(1991 carolyn)came into the store where i work and i was so bold as to say hello and introduce myself as a fan.
she was very nice and we had a pleasant,if brief,chat about her work on the '91 series.
one thing she did say was that dan curtis tried to follow too closely the plot of the original series(he was "in love" with it)without "updating it"(whatever the heck that means)and that perhaps for that reason it "bombed"(her word not mine).
but she did seem to have gotten a kick out of the experience and said that she had recently seen joanna going(victoria).
nice.
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Well that is awesome Msbryk! I think everyone pretty much knows I am a child of the revival and the show started it all for me! I had wondered what was up with her these days! I don't think she acts much anymore or so she doesn't have any credits on IMDB past 1995! Maybe she is doing stage work?
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I'm not sure if she's currently acting but I did have the pleasure of seeing Barbara do her one woman show, Extreme Girl. It's a one woman show where she plays 9 different parts, from a sullen, Gothic teen to a dominatrix to a member of the Bimbo Liberation Movement. Her work on DS only showed a small part of her talent. She was awesome. And she wrote Extreme Girl. I liked it so much that I eventually saw it four times. And I'd see it again in a heartbeat. Nice, friendly lady as well.