Hi, gang great show yesterday i just had to laugh
the way Angelique went about wanting Barnabas
destroyed after all!  " She probably was thinking to
herself " why not i'll take a stab at it" Sorry,
Anne who really needs to get a grip on life and
keep dreaming about Quentin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 Â                         Love Anne
 

i'm sure there was a lot of emerald eye shadow in 1795. . .what tarts those French girls were. . .and Natalie with her ever-moving beauty mark. . .DS make up . . i got lots to say about the makeup.

And I'd like to hear others impressions of the makeup of the stars over the years.  I'll just go with my (don't roll you eyes!) favorite. . .Grayson's makeup. . okay
Julia's intro--boring duds and subtle makeup
Natalie-curly hair, still limited makeup, too much taffeta, and roving beauty marks

[shadow=red,left,300]Dr Julia Hoffman revealed--[/shadow]TONS OF MAKEUP! Eyeliner, big eyelashers, lipstick galore! Jewelry by the caseloads. . .too much eye makeup!  When I saw a scene of Grayson from 1980s on One Life to Live, I thought she was naked! where's all the eyemake up?? (see below)

Towards the end of DS though, they changed Grayson's  eye makeup from black to brown and its was so much nicer, very flattering and she looked younger. . . (see my icon left for example).

Now Joan Bennett.  .her makeup. . I can't trace a history like I can w/GH but sometimes it was exquisite and other times, like crayola's all over her face. . Who knows the history of the makeup artists on DS?? Do tell. . .

>I have named this smiley ringo<

Why, thanky Bobu!  [I have used that one over at GameShowNetwork, m'self, but didn't know I could grab it for here!][and at first I though yer avatar du jour was Jay Leno ~ cringe!]

Cheers,
Ringo
[who handed the Ticketmonster over 22 hundred dollars today with three shows going on sale in one bloody hour! .... and the wifey and her sister just wanted 'cheep' seats for ONE atlanta show!!!  58 dollars in 'service' charges alone!  Silly love songs my arse!]  I gotta lie down for a while!

These have all been interesting posts, re: relocating the DS Fest to (fill in the city of your choice).

Once upon a time, I used to be active in another national fan club. For a number of years, they had "The Meeting of the Minds" in New Orleans. Central to the Continental US, and most everyone could make it. A few years ago, they moved it to Key West   . The first year, it was a hit. But in subsequent years, gradual attendance was decreasing (but you couldn't tell because there is usually two other festivals going on around the same time), unless you were from "that part of the country".

Some of the factors include added cost and accessibility getting to KW vs NO. Others were finding reliable lodging in a much smaller area. The sponsoring organization did have to import the band members and pay them, an added cost   .

Participating in many of the "posts" similar to this one, I heard the same comments. West Coast fans wanted more in their direction. Problem was, the "head beak"   and some of his compadres lived in the middle and eastern part of the country (with exception to a couple of them who lived on the Left Coast). He, as a rule, didn't aways show up, but one year he did. Mainly, band members of his showed up and played.

I guess my point is, in order to get hit by lightening, you need to go stand in the rain. It comes down to practicality and the cost of putting on such an event. These type of events are *very* costly to put on, and they entail a huge, and sometimes excruciating amount of planning and detail to pull off so *all*, or at the very least, most all will have a positive experience when putting down their own coin to attend these events.

It could be worse...they might not exist at all simply because of the cost and practicality of putting it on. Enjoy them while you can.  Better to travel and see it once than to not have the experience of going at all.

just my .02,  

Karen #2

Vam,

Of course, the team's centerfielder would be Quentin "Mr. Cool in the Clutch" Collins.  And I see Istvan the Gypsy in left field; A man of few (if, any) words, who literally muscles the pitch over the outfield fence.

First base could be played by Jeb "The Snake" Hawkes, who can make that long, stretched-out play on ground balls.

Batter up!

Bob the Bartender, who wants to be Mike Piazza in the next life.

<<I just meant if you could fly them from LA to NY then Boston would cost the same that's all."

Okay, let's look into the cost of bringing in the actors to Boston from New York.


Most people who live in NYC do not own cars, and I know the NYC actors who attend the fests dont own one.  So, they would have to have a car rented for them to travel to Boston.  Now, unfortunately, in NYC most car rental places insist on a minmum of two days if you rent the car on  weekend.  Car rentals in NY run as much as $70 a day or more.  Since the actors have different schedules, they would want to come up when they wanted.  You figure they would have the car for at least four days and if you add taxes (which is 8% in NY) to the total, you are looking at about $400 an actor.  This is about the price of airfare flying the LA based DS actors to the east whether it be Boston or NY.  

If you want to avoid the car rental thing and send the actors up by Amtrak train service, unreserved seating starts at around $150 round trip and if you travel on a Friday it can go as high at $181.00 per person.  So if each actor brings a spouse or friend along, you double the fare. Again, you are looking at costs similar to the airfare of bringing in the LA actors.

If you had the event in Newport, you are talking about skyrocket hotel prices. Newport is a wealthy area.  I've stayed there on business and with friends, and we paid big bucks for a decent hotel.   All the actors would have to be flown in to Providence, I believe, and then rent cars to be taken to Newport.  Car rentals there might not be all that much cheaper because of the resort areas near Providence.   The Amtrak schedule I looked at indicates there is no direct rail service to Newport.

The likelihood of getting reasonable accomodations during the summer months in Newport is slim to none. That is a big,wealthy resort area and a very popular one during the summer and early fall.  The price for everything goes up.

The trouble with promoting a festival being held in Boston is that it is not centrally located on the east coast. New York is.  It is easier to access for the people coming up from the south, and it has the added attraction of having Broadway and other key tourist attractions.  Many fans take advantage of the discounted hotel price for the Festivals in New York by coming in with their families, attend some of the fest, and then going out to see shows and other tourist attractions.  There are more tourist attractions in NYC.  (I Happen to like Boston a lot but if I give my friends across the country a choice of where to spend their time, they tend to pick NYC).   :-/  The actors too from LA would naturally prefer coming to NY and having access to the theater and those who were born and raised here visit family while in town for the festival.

The festivals in NY means no rental cars whatsoever for any of the actors, and no air fare for the four who do attend.   Rental cars are expensive.  The car insurance in New York is the highest in the nation (New Jersey is a close rival) which is one reason rentals are so high.    

I understand why many people would like to see the festivals in a city nearer to them.  It makes sense why they feel that way.   Unfortunately, practicality and finances dictate the the most reasonable locations for the DS festivals are New York and Los Angeles.

However, as I have said, anyone can put on a convention if they want to have a go at it in their own area of preference.  There is nothing to stop anyone from doing that.

Nancy