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"Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? A Plane? No! It's....some gunk I didn't clean off the window.  Gee, Barnabas is gonna be mad..."

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Current Talk '07 I / Re: Art Wallace's The House ...
« on: March 23, 2007, 06:55:07 PM »
In fact, I would love to know if the original production of The House survives as anything more than a script.  Was it kinescoped?  And if so, are there any known copies to have survived?

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Current Talk '07 I / Re: Art Wallace's The House ...
« on: March 23, 2007, 06:15:57 PM »
I would give anything to read it!  Perhaps we could send a polite note to Pomegranate Press expressing interest in seeing the script published.

I understand that the script was performed at one of the recent festivals by the DS actors in attendance.  ProfStokes gave a good, detailed description of the event, summarizing the script, on the forum.
I tried doing a search for other posting but could not find anything.  If you know where it is I would eager to read it.
:)

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Current Talk '07 I / Re: Where are the costumes?
« on: March 20, 2007, 10:00:23 PM »
They were donated to homeless drag queen shelters.
Speaking of which, I want that Clown dress that Catherine wore in PT1841 .....

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A seance has been held at Collinwood, a seance which has sent one man on an uncertain and frightening journey to the year 1995.  There Buzz finds that indoor smoking is not allowed, and so he smokes outside, and wonders if lead-free gas will damage his motorcycle.

Brilliant! LOL

 [clap]

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"Barnabas was extremely surprised to see that Sam's artistic talents also included painting young Burke Devlin nude."

Barnabas:  No wonder he's so popular.  Last time i saw a hoo hoo that big it was pushing prominently against my best friend Nathan Forbes' trousers .

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Current Talk '07 I / Re: Who did the best voiceovers?
« on: March 16, 2007, 02:44:33 AM »
No problem. It's not at all surprising that you might have thought the voice on that record was Grayson's because that's yet another instance where something has been repeated so often that it's taken on a life of its own even though it's a misconception.  :(
OT - Thanks!  Normally when something like that happens (I discover an obscure fact or read about a rare performance I remembered from my childhood) I have to go immediately and look it up or watch/listen to it.  In this case, have read it recently somewhere that she was the narrator on that Disney record, I instantly recalled the narration with her voice, not having the record anymore to verify.  The voices must sound remarkably similar and I am sure her being in That Darn Cat, pretty much sealed it in my mind, til I was corrected by (would you believe it) IMDB!

Anyway, as much as I love Grayson's voiceovers - I always found it interesting to hear Humbert or John doing the voiceover because they always sounded very different from their characters and I often had to stop and think about who it was... :)

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Current Talk '07 I / Re: Art Wallace's The House ...
« on: March 15, 2007, 07:10:18 PM »
Ben Stein voice: ...Anyone? ....Anyone? ....

 >:D

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Current Talk '07 I / Re: Who did the best voiceovers?
« on: March 15, 2007, 06:45:48 PM »
I love Grayson's voice as well.  Have you ever heard the record Disney "Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of a Haunted House," released back in the early 70s?
OOPS.  I just learned I was wrong about that one!  Apologies all!

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Current Talk '07 I / Re: Who did the best voiceovers?
« on: March 15, 2007, 06:29:45 PM »
My favorite is Grayson, but I freely admit to being WAY prejudiced here.  I just adore listening to her voice... I could literally imagine her making the New York Telephone Directory a HOOT.  I also love her way of pronouncing certain words--"Collinwood" often comes out sounding like "CALLANwood."
I love Grayson's voice as well.  Have you ever heard the record Disney "Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of a Haunted House," released back in the early 70s?  One side is just the sounds themselves, the other is the sounds along with Grayson's narrating as "you" go though a mysterious house in the neighborhood.

I loved that album!


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Roger, uttering to himself:  Oh my! I thought I told that paper boy to stop pressing his face to the back window! 
Paper boy: (offscreen)  Where's my two dollars?!

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Current Talk '07 I / Re: With all the talk about Barnabas heart??
« on: March 14, 2007, 05:26:38 PM »
I think whether Vamps eat or drink has to do with the story being told.  I don't recall Barn actually eating or drinking when he was a vampire, but did occasionally hold a drink or cup in his hand.

Vamps in the Buffyverse seem to still eat and drink whenever they want, but require blood for sustenance (Spike likes buffalo wings, and blooming onions, for example)

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint Germain, often demurred when around others were eating or drinking, usually claiming that he prefers to dine alone.

I don't think any of the Rice vamps ate or drank.

IIRC, the "classic" vampires - Dracula, Varney, Camilla - I don't think they were ever seen to eat or drink.

And, the legends vary depending on the region.  For example, in Chinese folklore one type of vampire drinks spinal fluid, not blood.

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Current Talk '07 I / Art Wallace's The House ...
« on: March 13, 2007, 06:19:29 PM »
Does anyone know where one my lay one's hands on a copy of the script?  I'm actually surprised Pomegranate Press hasn't published it yet, since next to Shadows on the Wall, would seem to me to be the most important piece of DS "origin material" out there.

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Current Talk '07 I / Re: With all the talk about Barnabas heart??
« on: March 13, 2007, 05:50:44 PM »
Well, this might be a bummer to some, I don't tend to consider standard biology or physics when thinking about vampires.  At the end of the day, they were reanimated by supernatural means, so I try to to think about in a non-magical way.  When I do, I can't help but think about Angel and Spike and all the talk about how their hearts don't beat etc, and I keep wondering why we don't see post mordem lividity, or what's it's like to have sex with someone who is room temperature.  ;)

It gets in the way of my suspension of disbelief, so I tend to try to ignore that stuff.

Now, with Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's vampires and ghouls, it's a lot more straightforward and if I may say a little more like the ideas presented in DS where there is something in the blood that changes its chemistry.  A cell or virus, that, with a sufficient buildup, upon the victim's death, causes the body to reanimate, have an extreme photosenitivity and require blood as sustanance.  Though there is still a very definitely a supernatural element as in her world the vampires do have a definite and necessary connection to their native earth.

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Jason: Come on Roger, dear Liz.... enough of this bickering, let's be buddies....drinking buddies. We'll all like each other a heck of a lot more once we're totally smashed.
Roger:  Good idea, Jason.  Then we can go for a ride in my car ....