Oops!  Apparently, yes, I was making a big conspiracy theory out of nothing!  Sorry.  Now I see that the passing on the pilot was all the stupid Frog's fault!!   (LOL!)

BTW, I forgot to mention in my con report that someone at KJ's Q&A told her about the NODS restoration project and asked her if she would be willing to redo her dialogue, and she didn't seem to be aware of the project but responded pretty enthusiastically about being willing to participate if asked.

(I also made a small error in my OT -- I got my picture taken with Dean H., not Marc S. -- guess it was just wishful remembering on my part -- LOL!  Although...Dean H. got his hair cut and looks pretty cute and was very nice!!  Ha!  Anyway, suddenly remembered this morning that I wrote it wrong -- oops!)

(When I get my pictures developed I will try to figure out how to post the KJ ones here, but I still have 14 more shots on the roll to go -- ack!)

BTW, I didn't ask KJ what part they wanted her to play in the pilot -- I was afraid I was probably already interrogating her too much as it was!  LOL! -- But could she have been offered the part of Elizabeth before Blair Brown was?  It just seemed like a logical choice to me, since she would be the most well-known female actress from the original series.

I went to the Motor City Comic Con in Novi, Michigan, today and talked to Kate Jackson and here is what she told me about the pilot:  First, I asked her if she was approached to be in it and she said yes, she was, but she was busy shooting something else and couldn't do it.  (Sob!  Cool that she was asked, though!)  Now here is the bad news.  She said the pilot didn't go over well with the WB and it was overbudget and the shooting went past deadline, so the WB passed on it.  Sob!!!  But then she did say something hopeful about maybe it can be revived somewhere else (implying that it was being shopped around, I believe).  I think she said something about that they were reshooting it, but this all went so fast and I was trying to coherently ask these important questions while I was failing to hide the fact that I was totally gushing and freaking out over the fact that I was meeting KATE JACKSON!!!!   (LOL!)

Anyway, she was very nice.  I asked her if she'd ever consider going to the Fests and she said she's been busy working in the past and hasn't been able to come to them, but she might have time to start coming to them in the near future.  She said she's in contact with some of the other cast and they've told her that they enjoy coming to them and that the fans are really nice.  She did a Q&A in the speakers room and told the story about hitting Jim Storm with the wrong end of the breakaway vase and knocking him out for real -- LOL!  She also talked about "Charlie's Angels" and said she and Farrah Fawcett and Jaclyn Smith are good friends and she's Jaclyn's daughter's godmother.  She said they have a project going to bring back the original Angels and they've all signed up for it (tv movie, I think) but she can't say anything more about it yet.

(OT -- I also met Marc Singer and got my picture taken with him -- ooh baby!!  What a cutie!  And so nice.  He called me Darlin' and Sweet Thing.  Sigh...  LOL!!  He said they're making a new "V" for fall of 2005 -- sounds like a miniseries that might lead to a series.  I also talked to Dean Haigland, who was very friendly and said they want to make the second "X Files" movie a lot "darker" -- darker even than the "Home" episode -- sounds cool!  He said they'd be bringing the Lone Gunmen back -- "You didn't see any bodies, did you?"  Ha!  There we go!)

OMG, I had the misfortune of contributing to that 54 million opening.  It was so bad, words almost cannot describe.  I've seen better film on teeth.  I do not expect will have much repeat business, esp. once word starts to get around.

I, for one, am hoping that the WB does _not_ use Van Helsing as a guide to what modern horror is about.

Uh oh, I'm gonna dissent here -- I thought "Van Helsing" was cool!!  LOL!  Well, the CGI Mr. Hyde was really stupid, but they got that over with quickly, thank goodness, and the rest of the movie was really cool, IMHO!!  Loved the flying vampire brides!  Now that would be interesting to use with Angelique!!

(Uh oh, I am so ducking after that suggestion!  LOL!)  (But I think it would be awesome! ) ( )

This is the first I've heard about such a portrait.  I haven't received Shadowgram.  Do you mean that there's a picture of the "Barnabas portrait" as completed for the new series, with Alec Newman as Barnabas?

Yes, there is a picture of the new Barnabas portrait with Alec Newman in Shadowgram.  It's a full-body portrait.  He's dressed in his 18th century clothes, which are different than what we've seen Barnabas wear before: no ruffled shirt, no medals.  A little more casual-type clothes.  He is wearing a cape, though.  He has shoulder-length wavy hair -- sigh...drool...  LOL!

No need to apologize, Mary, but thank you.    It was big of you to acknowledge the post and I appreciate it.

You're welcome, dom, and thank YOU!

Sorry, dom!! 

On the other hand, let's hope that isn't it. Well, at least that they're not some sort of actual returning "zombies" or some such. That sort of stuff was already a bit over the top when it was done on the original and already well established DS - and having "zombies" actually rising from their graves could easily seem like a bit of overkill so soon in the series when its main focus should be introducing the characters, setting the premise, and dealing with its vampire, who should be the exclusive and front and center "undead" character. After all, I think most of us want a new WB audience to look at DS seriously, not as some bit of camp...

Just MHO. 

JMHO, but zombies rule!  LOL! When I saw all the zombies rise out of their graves when I was a kid I thought that was soooo cool!!  And I still haven't grown any more mentally mature today!  LOL!  So as far as I'm concerned bring on all of the undead in any form!  Hee hee!

(Gonna maybe duck now -- uh oh.  Ha!)

(Unfortunately, though (LOL!), I have to admit, you're probably right, MB, about it being a bit of overkill for right at the beginning of the series.  On the other hand, though, it would be cool if, as Gothic suggested, this would be Barnabas when Willie first lets him out of the coffin! )