I never thought of that!  Thanks, Jennifer!  I feel like I'm 13 all over again!

Gerard

I don't think Angelique (PT, of course) really knew what love was; she was way too self absorbed.  She confused it with wanting to be worshiped, and the poor, little thing confused that with how she felt about Quentin.  She was undoubtedly the most popular girl in Collinsport, making herself that by being crafty (again, I'd figure her craftiness was more of the manipulative rather than the witchy kind).  As a teen, she had set her eyes on Quentin because he was the principle heir to the fortune of one of Maine's wealthiest families.  Certainly, the girl had no intention of marrying the grease-monkey at the Collinsport Auto Repair shop.  And once she manipulated herself into his life (maybe with the help of her father), everyone told Quentin that she was the only one suitable enough for being his wife.

Regarding her age and Daniel's age, I'm gonna squash numbers here.  I made Daniel 12.  Quentin (who I make to be 34) and Angelique married right after she graduated high school and she became pregnant during their honeymoon.

As for all those other men in her life, they were just more trophies.  She never had - you know - with them (unless she belonged to the Macrame and Zen website), but just strung them along.

Gerard

I've seen that documentary a coupla times.  Honest to Pete, doesn't that scene of her giving testimony look and sound like something right out of a soap opera?  Sam Hall could not've written it better, and Lela Swift could not've directed it better.

Gerard

Every once in a blue moon (or, I guess in black and white it would be a grayish-white moon), I will do that.  The major reason is nostalgia.  We did not get a color TV until 1976, so all of DS was b&w for me.  And sometimes it does appear better in b&w, a bit more atmospheric, just like the series did before it switched to in-living-color.

I've got two b&w vs. color TV stories, speaking of that.  Back in the mid-sixties, our next-door neighbors were the first ones in the neighborhood to get a color TV.  There was a great deal of excitement, especially since the movie, The Song of Bernadette, was going to make its first TV appearance (it was made in the early '40's, and starred Jennifer Jones and Vincent Price).  As a matter of fact, the advanced publicity about the airing of the film was one of the reasons why our neighbors purchased that fancy color TV set.  This was something really big - the movie being on television, I mean - in our neighborhood because it was primarily Catholic, and those old enough to have seen it during its theatrical run 25 years earlier had not seen it since.  So the night of its broadcast, we all piled into their house, the lady-of-the-house spending the entire day cooking up treats, the man-of-the-house going down earlier to the local tavern (run by my uncle and aunt) to pick up crates and crates of beer and soda.  We all waited in anticipation as the broadcast began, the 20th-Century-Fox logo appearing, the credits rolling.  It was only then that those who saw it almost a quarter-century earlier remembered.

The Song of Bernadette was filmed in black and white.

Well, we stayed and watched it anyway, eating all the treats, the kids downing the soda while the grown-ups enjoyed the beer.  My dad would let me sip the foam off the top of his beer to my mother's disapproving glare.

Like I said, we got our first color set way later in 1976.  Ironically, it was pretty much for the same reason our neighbors got theirs more than a decade earlier, causing that sensation.  Gone With the Wind was making its first commercial showing on TV.  Fortunately, that one was filmed in color.  But to digress a bit, I grew up watching The Wizard of Oz when it was aired annually, to a big broohaha (Danny Kaye would host).  Of course, I'd only seen it completely in black and white that whole time, until 1976.  I was utterly amazed during the horse-of-a-different-color scene in the Emerald City.  The horse actually kept changing colors.  Nineteen-years-old, and I never knew that until then.

Gerard

I was gonna say that Maggie's portrait does look like something a high-school junior would make for inclusion in the town-wide "Youth Art Month Display" at the local shopping mall.

Gerard

That is a terrible tragedy.  I hope the families find solace in their great losses.

Gerard

Okay, now today Quentin called Will his "brother-in-law".  I'd hate to be the executor of that estate when it goes into probate.

Gerard

I think everyone's still recuperating from the Fourth of July weekend!  Must've been a wild one!  I'm taking off for an overnighter so I can dump a friend off at the airport early in the morning.

Gerard