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Robservations / Re: Robservations 8/29/02 - #626/627 - Murder!
« on: September 01, 2002, 02:31:58 AM »
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it led to a lively discussion on the old board

It's a shame all those old posts are gone forever. >:(

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Barnabas Meets Spike?
« on: August 13, 2002, 08:24:42 AM »
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It would be nice to hear some comments from Mr. Frid about these new Vampire TV shows...We now know he obviously watches them.


Actually, he doesn't. At least I don't think so.

Over the weekend, my former colleague at the now defunct DSO forum on AOL, AlaneSue (who now runs a huge Spike list), sent out the following notice to her DSnews list (and I'm sure she won't mind if I share it with you):


Subj: [dsnews] Frid Mention in Washington Post
Date: 8/10/02 6:46:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time

From a story about James Marsters, who plays "Spike" on "Buffy the
Vampire Slayer.

>>>>One of the few obstacles the actor faces is, understandably, the
sun. Spike is necessarily pale, so Marsters, who already undergoes
painful peroxide treatments for his hair twice a month, stocks up on
sunblock and generally avoids the beach until twilight.

The other challenge is "keeping rail thin. I've been after a body
type since I got on the show. When I came to L.A., I was 200 pounds
and working out--and then I got the role. Playing a vampire for six
years, it's hard to be hungry, but I'm a metaphor for hunger,
psychological and sexual. And I noticed that the only vampires to
really hit the American consciousness and stay there were almost
unhealthily thin, with the one exception of the original, Bela
Lugosi."

Still, Marsters is probably the first size 28-waisted vampire in that
colony of actors who have tackled this classic character. His mark on
the role was noted recently by none other than Barnabas Collins, that
elegant vampire on the '60s soap opera "Dark Shadows."

"I just got an autographed picture of Jonathan Frid," the actor who
portrayed Collins, exulted Marsters. "He said, 'You've made it,
man!'"<<<<

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61736-2002Aug8.html

Here's the story behind the story.

Last year, I asked Nancy Kersey if it would be possible to get an
autograph from Mr. Frid to give to Mr. Marsters when I went to a
convention. Nancy was kind enough to not only secure the autograph
but to get it personalized on a photo of JF from the 1897 storyline
that said, "James, Ya made it!"

When I gave the photo (and an autographed program from December) to
Mr. Marsters, he sucked in some air, stared, leaned a little back on
his seat, got slightly red in the face and was struck temporarily
speechless.

It obviously meant a lot to him to be recognized by the original
romantic TV vampire, and it was a great fan moment for me.

And thanks to Nancy and Jonathan Frid for making it all possible.

Alane


Any Spike fans that might want to check out Alane's list should go to this site for details:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bloody_Awful

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Diana Walker
« on: July 30, 2002, 06:15:56 AM »
Whatever we might think of Ms. Walker's performance as Carolyn (and I don't think much of it :() I always like to point out that after DS, she played one of the lead ingenues on a short lived soap called Where the Heart Is. While appearing on that soap, she even appeared on the cover of AfterNoon TV, which is something only three DS actors ever did while they were on DS. (Jonathan Frid and Alexandra Moltke were on the cover of the premiere issue, and Jonathan Frid and Lara Parker were on the cover of the December 1968 issue. Surprisingly, they never featured David Selby).

For anyone who's interested, I just posted Diana Walker's cover in the archive on the Miscellaneous board. :)

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Today's (Monday 7/22) Flubs
« on: July 23, 2002, 12:20:44 AM »
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There were some great bloopers today.

They wasted absolutely no time messing up in today's first ep, showing a still of the risen moon just a bit too long in the video as we heard (but did not see) Julia moving about in the audio.

Believe it or not, Dom, this was Jim Pierson's doing. Whenever there's a glitch in the master tape, Pierson has edited it out and replaced it, usually with a still shot.

If you want to see what the opening originally looked like, download this RealVideo8 clip (1.54MB), taken from when this episode was shown in '80s syndication (hence the flash of the station's ID).

But all the other flubs were there to begin with. [lghy]

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Dan Curtis on another DS film:
« on: July 18, 2002, 11:12:06 PM »
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Johnny Depp as Barnabas?  :P

Apparently Depp is a big DS fan. While I was taping my Sciography segment, the producer mentioned that in the next week or two they were really hoping to schedule an interview with Depp about his love for the show. But I guess it probably never came off because Depp doesn't appear in what was shown at the Fest.

Who knows? Look at all the flap Tom Cruise's casting as Lestat in Interview with the Vampire caused! But that turned out pretty well. ;)

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: The Adam Storyline - your thoughts?
« on: July 15, 2002, 08:22:44 PM »
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I used to hate Adam with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns, but this time around I found myself much more sympathetic to the character.

I think Adam is very sympathetic in the beginning. The way they wrote his initial relationship with Barnabas and then his feelings for Carolyn is very well done. But then Nicholas gets ahold of him and it's all downhill from there as Adam gets turned into a one note character whose only purpose on the show seems to be to threaten Vicki and the Collins family over and over and over again! He has a few more good scenes with Carolyn coming up, but other than those it's best to turn the volume down whenever he's speaking! [lghy]

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Grrr! DS DVD
« on: July 13, 2002, 07:42:38 AM »
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from everything I have read here - it sounds like it happens elsewhere and is a problem experienced when using this format.

It is, Dean. Probably the most well known case of a DVD that had playback problems on a lot of players was the release of The Matrix back in 1999. There was even a Web site set up that explained what brands/models of players had problems and how to go about having their firmware updated. But that certainly didn't stop The Matrix from going on to be the biggest selling DVD in the format's short history. If I'm not mistaken, I think it still holds the record.

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Grrr! DS DVD
« on: July 11, 2002, 08:30:39 AM »
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There should be one standard of thing


That's the whole problem, Ringo -- there isn't any standard recording/encoding format for DVDs. But the industry is aware of the problem, and they're working to come up with that standard. (check out this post I made back in March: Somewhat OT: DVD Recording Standard Stirs Interest)

Not to try to sound pessimistic, but as I mentioned in the post, a standard could also bring with it another problem...

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Robservations / Re: Robservations 7/10/02 - #554/555 - Guess Who's a Vampire Now?
« on: July 10, 2002, 08:28:09 AM »
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I also wonder why Nicholas allowed Tom to become vampire food when he could have just erased his memory of finding the coffin?

Probably just to wreak havoc for his own amusement. I say this based on the twinkle in his eye when he remarked, "And so it has begun..." and how much he enjoyed watching Barnabas' behavior. Also, remember [spoiler]how upset Nicholas got after Barnabas staked Tom. Upset enough to take the coffin from the mausoleum and to raise Tom when he needed him later on. Obviously Nicholas would have preferred that Tom had continued his rein of terror for much longer than he was allowed.[/spoiler]

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Calendar Events / Announcements '02 II / Re: Dark Shadows Festival 2002 Reports
« on: July 09, 2002, 07:06:32 AM »
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Does you opinion of the character change once you meet the actor/actress?

I can't say that's been the case for me. In most instances, meeting the actors and hearing them speak about their character(s) and how they approached the role(s) has only made me enjoy the character(s) more. Well, with at least one big exception, and I've never made a secret of who that is. ;) LOL!

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Calendar Events / Announcements '02 II / Re: Bobubas & the lovely ladies of the DS Forum!
« on: July 09, 2002, 02:28:23 AM »
Great photos (as usual), Bob!

Should I be honored that I seem to be one of the few males in fandom that you'll have your picture taken with? [winkb] But it sure looks like I wouldn't have stood a chance this year! [lghy]

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Calendar Events / Announcements '02 II / Re: Dark Shadows Festival 2002 Reports
« on: July 06, 2002, 08:19:58 PM »
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I'm probably over-reacting, but Mike Miozza can back me up on this- the experience of seeing yourself on TV for the first time is very strange and you always look much less attractive and professional than you thought you looked.

Especially when you were 35 pounds heavier back then than you are now! LOL!

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1971 Articles/Photos / Grayson Hall - TV Guide - 01/23/71
« on: July 06, 2002, 03:52:08 AM »

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think she was taking anything seriously. And yet, by dress rehearsal somehow it's all there! I don't know how she does it."
      All of which is very well . . . but what is an Academy Award nominee and an "astounding talent" doing, laying Katharine Hepburn low at lunch, clowning around a soap-opera set, and killing off two years of her creative life by feigning passion for a vampire?
      Grayson Hall explains: "I'm no longer ambitious. When you're young. 24, 25. you're committed to a kind of drive. When you get to the point where I am, and have a family . . . well, I just love the work. That's all I care about.
      "I have the best of all possible worlds. I'm a wife, a mother, a housewife. And I work when I want to. So I'm fulfilled on all levels."
      On level one, Grayson, wife, lives with writer Sam Hall in "a big, old funny apartment" in Manhattan, crammed to the gills with heavy conversation-piece antiques. Biedermeier chairs, a porcelain bidet, gigantic 15th-century Corsican cupids and grotesque Ming dogs ornament the dark red living room.

Somewhere in the deeps of the apartment, there are roars of laughter. Grayson leads us to the roars--to the kitchen, where a stout, bald, jovial man sits at a table covered with sheets of paper and scribbles. Husband Sam Hall is a writer of Dark Shadows--which is written, daily, on Grayson's kitchen table--and he's in conference with two other writers. Sam, too, has had an unusually distinguished career. He's written for the Theatre Guild, U.S. Steel Hour, Playhouse 90. Why is he churning out stuff about vampires? "If you want to stay in New York today," he says, "all there is is the soaps. Or move to California."
      We visit the next level and give Grayson, mother, a whirl. We can't see her in action, because her child, Matthew. is not at home. But Grayson is full of funny talk about her precocious "12-year-old hero." Matt, it seems, reprimands Grayson for her incessant comic exaggeration. He recently threatened to "curb her extravagance of language": "You come home from Bloomingdale's and say 'There were 8,000,000 people there.' You know there weren't 8,000,000 people there! You come home from the studio and say 'This was the worst day of my life!' You know it wasn't the worst day of your life."
      We move on to the last "level," that of Grayson, housewife. She's Domesticity Incarnate, it appears: "I'm a committed cook. Basically I'm a French cook. But I've also taken a course in Chinese cooking and in Mexican cooking. Most recently I've taken Yucatan cooking." Grayson labors three days to turn out an exotic meal for a few friends. Then they talk about it for weeks.
      All "levels" have now been displayed and, after a parting flurry of jokes, the brief visit comes to an end.
      Can this be the "best of all possible worlds"? Is this domesticated, wisecracking Academy Award nominee and lampooner of Katharine Hepburn "fulfilled," as she says? Unsurprisingly, many think not:
      One Dark Shadows colleague says: "She's as neurotic as hell. Some kind of anxiety eats at her. She's a compulsive gossip. There's that compulsive need to be 'on'--that constant barrage of jokes, and quips and exaggeration. She's got the talent. She could have had a far greater career. I think she knows she hasn't done with herself what she could have. I think frustration eats at her."
      On the other hand, some believe it is not quite so "black and white" as all that. Director Henry Kaplan says:
      "Actors are very strange people, and Grayson is a strange woman. I certainly think she'd like to be more successful. Even though part of her is fulfilled, she's still reaching out for the part that isn't. But Grayson's family is important and fulfilling to her. It's not a cop-out."

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Calendar Events / Announcements '02 II / Re: "Extra-Special, First Time Ever Surprise"
« on: July 04, 2002, 02:34:19 AM »
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Geez, is that what everybody here really wants to know about?

I doubt many fans care about it. But there only needs to be one who'd be brazen enough to bring it up. And you just know that one would be there. :(

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Calendar Events / Announcements '02 II / Re: "Extra-Special, First Time Ever Surprise"
« on: July 04, 2002, 02:30:22 AM »
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I'm guessing that the special, first-time-ever surprise is that everything will run on schedule.

Now THAT would be a first time ever surprise! But I think there's a better chance of seeing Alexandra at a Fest than us ever seeing that happen. LOL!

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