simply showing id wont work. u need to be wearing a badge to enter the convention hall/rooms. there is a monitor looking for people wearing the badges. if u had to stop and show id, to the monitor this would cause a delay and even another line just to enter the rooms. obtaining the badge is what causes the line in the 1st place but at least after u have it and wear it u can enter the rooms without further delay.

david nahmod is the friend i mentioned before who has big issues with fan behavior and i faxed him a copy of this post and he faxed me back(he is not on line)his response that i am transcibing for u:
One major way festivals could be improved is to raise the standards of behavior + hold people accountable for what they do at festivals. since i began attending in 1983, in the SHADOWCON days, ive found the fan behavior torwards others to be overwhelmingly negative. it often seems that 90% of the fans are not on speaking terms with each other and that most of them consider this something to be proud of. ive also had people try to convince me that im supposed to hate the people they dont like. hard to believe the people acting this way are all over the age of 30.
its time to stigmatize the bad behavior at festivals. it is the hate mongers who should be stigmatized, not those they victimized. we can further improve fandom by gently, lovingly urging people to be kinder to each other, to be polite to everyone whose paths they cross and to end the grudgeholding. its time we learned that not being friends does not make us enemies. DAVID NAHMOD

sorry, i misread the ad in the L.A. WEEKLY. tickets r on sale at the golden apple. the event is taking place at the raddison hotel near the airport. some sci-fi convention being attended by other stars from sci-fi/horror films. im not sure if i will attend or not.

Originally posted by joe integlia on February 27, 2002 at 12:08:33:
In Reply to: Dark Shadows Memories Video and DVD posted by Richard Holt on February 26, 2002 at 14:18:17:

this is typical of many ds books/videos etc. i never order anything ahead of time. i wait till i know for a fact that it exist first.

Posted by joe integlia on February 14, 2002 at 01:33:06:
In Reply to: DS DVDs- starting with WHAT episode??? posted by Charles Ellis on February 13, 2002 at 16:51:51:

another name from the past! 1st david gee now charles ellis. another lost contact from the 80s. i remember u were the 1st to call and tell me that grayson hall had died. hey was that u on celeb. MILLIONAIRE the other night? thomas calabrio from melrose place wanted to phone a friend and the friends name was CHARLES ELLIS! it didnt sound like u but it made me wonder what became of u and now here you are!

Originally posted by joe integlia on February 10, 2002 at 13:02:47:
In Reply to: question? posted by denise on February 10, 2002 at 12:40:01:

the board wont let the truth be told

Originally posted by joe integlia on the Dark Shadows: General Discussion Forum on January 31, 2002 at 01:22:37:

u can thank dan curtis for preserving the show. most soaps were owned by the netwworks or procter and gamble. they seemed to think nothing of erasing over an old tape. dan curtis owned ds from the beginning and i believe he went to the trouble of saving the tapes and i guess the b-w kinescopes too. the only reason one episode is missing is because they stopped making kinescopes in 1971 so there were no kinescopes for the last few months of the show. from what i have heard, a blank reel of tape was in the case for that one episode. the frequency of the b-w kinescopes dies down around the 1795 time period. but we are very lucky to have them instead of skipping the missing episodes.

Posted by joe integlia on January 23, 2002 at 08:51:46:
In Reply to: HODS on DVD posted by Brian on January 22, 2002 at 21:03:16:

I posted a message about HODS on the DVD Review site, under "Horror and Cult Films." Any responses over there might be helpful in getting HODS on DVD. (Plus, I'd like to hear any other opinions on the quality of the VHS print.)

the vhs tape seems inferior in quality to the version they show on the turner networks. the version shown on tv seems restored and color corrected.i assume this is the version they used for laser disc. cant say for sure since ive never seen it on LD. dont know why they used the inferior print for the vhs release.

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