I have never FF'd through an episode either. even during the credits I am watching to see the the lights dim, or a stagehand or actor walks into shot. 

This was my first DS website and I have a great deal of affection for it for that reason and because of the wealth of information and springboard it was to other DS sites.  However, it appears to not have been updated in quite a long time and I wonder if anyone here might know who runs/ran it and/or what the site's owner creator might have in store for it, if anything.

Many thanks for any information!

Nelson

I am probably about as big a Doctor Who fan as there ever was and earlier this year that show made an astonishing comeback, bulldozing the competition in the ratings and capturing the hearts of casual as well as fan viewers.  So hope springs eternal in my heart that the same will one day happen for Dark Shadows.

I should have mentioned that before Morticia on the Addams Family, Vampira (actress Maila Nurmi) in the 1950s created a look that was very ahead of its time and may have contributed to the look devised for Morticia.  Unfortunately I have read that NO video footage of Vampira's act exists, but there are plenty of photographs.

I think Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoons may have predated and/or inspired Vampira's look, but I am not sure.  Also, if one is looking for some footage of Vampira, IIRC she appeared in Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Quote from: Nelson Collins on February 18, 2005, 05:01:06 PM

(though again, in FFC's Dracula Mina is a reincarnation of Dracula's wife Elizabetha, though there are some strong similarities the the DS story as well.)

OT, but as long as we're talking about Dracula...

The Elizabetha I'm assuming you're talking about is referring to the real life Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who was a descendant of the legendary Vlad Tepes, later known as Vlad Dracul, later known as Count Dracula. Elizabeth was convinced that if she bathed in the blood of virgin women, she would remain young and immortal.

I am familiar with the Countess Bathory story, but was not aware that she was distantly related to Vlad Tepes.  However, the Elizabetha I was referring to was the character that was Dracula's wife when he was alive.  In the film, Dracul left her to go to war and one of his enemies smuggled a letter to her falsely saying that he had been killed.  So distraught was Elizabetha by the news of her husband's death she threw herself off the highest parapet of their castle home.  The wife was played by Winona Ryder, who also played Mina Harker and in that film it was made pretty plain that Mina was a reincarnation of Dracul's wife.  Since KLS played both Maggie and Josette and Josette also (but for different reasons) plunged to her death and in the "contemporary" story, Dracula is trying to reconnect with his Lost Love (tm) is why I suggested that FCC prettly baldly swiped elements of the Barn/Maggie/Josette story from DS for his version of Dracula.

Quote from: Nelson Collins on February 16, 2005, 07:50:11 PM

After all, Karloff as Turhan Bey was pretty spry and agile.

Make that Ardeth Bey..... ....(it's one of my all time favorite films.)

OOPS.  I stand corrected (no matter how it's spelled!  )  I wonder where I got "Turhan" from??

Anyhoo, interesting that there are so many rabid fans of Karloff's The Mummy!     So, I guess you do see what I mean vis a vis the similarities between the Im-ho-tep/Anckesen-Amon and Barnabas/Josette love stories.

Barnabas and Willie

I have not seen the entire series, but as the child of one of the richest families in New England, I don't think she had a job nor was she encouraged to get one.  I don't think she ever went to college either.

But your suggestion had me chuckling at the thought of Carolyn (if she were a modern rich teen) doing the Paris Hilton thing, traveling he country in her own reality show!!