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« on: July 19, 2017, 03:51:03 PM »

Thanks, MB! I don't recall today's cut/unshot line from Liz at all. I wonder if that was in the Dan Ross book as well. Even though I know I read it at least 3 times, I have practically no memory of much of it. One of the few things I do remember is Barnabas giving Julia a glass of sherry when she visited the Old House, and her appreciative comment: "Dry! Lovely!" I could really hear Grayson saying that line.

Best, G.

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« on: July 18, 2017, 01:39:14 PM »

That's really an... exceptional shot of Todd for today's show, MB. Great work!

And once again... I'm so very glad people can't read my mind on the Internet...

G.

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« on: July 17, 2017, 04:12:44 AM »

That's pretty cool. Clarice is one of my favorite actresses on the show. It was such a treat to finally see her in the 1967 CRUCIBLE production, playing opposite Thayer, recently.

G.

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« on: July 17, 2017, 04:09:26 AM »

So sorry you're experiencing all those hair-pulling technical difficulties, MB. We all appreciate your hard work here.

I hope you got at least a few laughs out of BtVotD. My memories of it are pretty blurred at this point.

Just imagine being at a party at which the host/ess insisted upon screening VotD, BtVotD, and finally, SHOWGIRLS. By the time the latter aired, presumably whoever was still left on the battlefield would be sufficiently "enhanced" from the party favors that they really wouldn't give a flying you-know what nonsense was parading in front of them.

cheers, G.

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« on: July 16, 2017, 01:28:42 PM »

MB, I'm just imagining the expression on your face as you behold the crazed antics of the Z-Man! LOL. I enjoyed BVotD but I wouldn't have said it was in any way essential viewing. I was really surprised when a friend loaned me the big DVD release that came out several years ago. There was an interview or commentary with Roger Ebert on it (it was before he became ill) and he gushed on and on about how great his screenplay for it was. My jaw dropped.

I find the Strawberry Alarm Clock appearance in the movie somewhat anticlimactic, though the party sequence is fun. I actually enjoy some of the Carrie Nation songs in the movie and I have the CD--and the songs are on my iPod.

Back to topic, I know that Sam or DC re-used Carolyn's dialogue, at least one line of it, in some other project--maybe the Jack Palace DRACULA script--soon after this. Great line so why not make use of it again.

G.

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« on: July 15, 2017, 07:30:04 PM »

When I watched the new edit when it was briefly on the Tube a couple of months ago, I liked Blair's performance more than I had done the first time around. Even the welcoming scene seemed to make more sense, somehow. It might just have been my frame of mind.

Best, G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '17 II / Re: A look at 12 incredible made-for-TV horror films from the ’70s and ’80s

« on: July 15, 2017, 06:28:58 PM »

I've never seen either version of Salem's Lot and am not particularly interested. But the actor who played the Nosferatu character in the 1970s movie (I don't really know anything about the story, but the makeup made him look like Max Schreck in NOSFERATU), Reggie Nalder, was a fascinating character in real life. He appeared in Boris Karloff's Thriller, the famous Star Trek episode "Journey to Babylon," and many other noted genre pieces. Great interview with Nalder here:

http://www.kinoeye.org/03/02/delvalle02.php

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '17 II / Re: The Passions Fan Festival at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles 7/23

« on: July 15, 2017, 04:22:08 PM »

I found an 11 minute clip on Youtube but haven't had time to play it. The datestamp said it was aired in 1989. That was an incredibly busy year for me academically, and I'd already lost interest in the Oscars (tm) at that point in any event.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '17 II / Re: The Passions Fan Festival at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles 7/23

« on: July 15, 2017, 03:35:08 PM »

Kosmo was kind enough to share this link with me:

http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2010/09/my-favorite-pitch-meeting-ever.html

Because I live in a cave (and may have been either out of the country or too buried in academia when it happened to pay attention), I'd never heard about Carr's OSCAR(tm) production that featured Rob Lowe belting "Proud Mary" and dancing/duetting with Snow White (which someone says resulted in a Disney lawsuit).

Just when I think I've figured out the peculiar twilight zone of weirdness that is Hollywood, I read something like this and realize I have to recalibrate everything I think I know about tacky Tinseltown.

G.

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« on: July 15, 2017, 03:28:43 AM »

Many thanks once again, MB, for sharing those two lovely shots of Joan and Grayson. For me they were the true Queens of DS.

And I just have to comment that TIGER BEAT would be about the last place in 1970 I'd expect to find a "rare still" of Joan Bennett--just shows how much interest there still was in our show in the "teen market" back then.

Another irony is that the movie was publicized in such a way that well before going to see it, you'd know practically the entire story. But as a result, as you have shown here, we have images of many scenes and set-ups that would otherwise have been lost forever.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '17 II / Re: The Love Witch - the Film Festival's big screen must-see

« on: July 14, 2017, 04:10:53 AM »

I saw The Love Witch at a screening at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge last February or March (I can't recall specifically). The production values are meant to recall cult films of the early Seventies such as Simon, King of the Witches and The Deathmaster. The costumes and sets are gorgeous but the script and acting range from competent to community theater levels of stiltedness.

The movie came out on DVD in April or May, I believe--don't know if it's available via Net flicks or other.

I give the sets and costumes an A and the rest of it a C minus.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '17 II / Re: The Passions Fan Festival at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles 7/23

« on: July 13, 2017, 03:08:31 PM »

Interesting that that is happening. I only saw a couple of episodes of that show. I wasn't a fan.

By an odd coincidence, though, I thought of it yesterday because I saw a photo of Juliet Mills on David del Valle's social media page. She looked great, which was heartening because when I saw her on Passions, she really looked rather dire. I guess that was the makeup and costuming, reminiscent perhaps of how awful they made Joan look in This House Possessed. That was upsetting to see.

Juliet was photographed with del Valle and Maxwell Caulfield attending the screening of a documentary about somebody named Allan Carr. I didn't have time to look up and see who that was. Of course it was in H'wood.

G.

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Current Talk '17 II / Re: Oh Boy, Serious DSFMS

« on: July 13, 2017, 03:03:16 PM »

Hi Patti, no, what you are seeing is the introduction of Harry. I really like his scene with Mrs J when he shows up. Once the storyline revolving around 1968, "that year of insanity," really got going, there was very little time or opportunity for scenes that were character focused such as this. Occasionally they would do them--there were a couple of good Maggie and Joe scenes during the Nicholas Blair period which is a few months away from where you are now.

Happy viewing,

G.

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« on: July 12, 2017, 03:32:18 AM »

Julia's backwards head-tilt as she begins to expostulate, and Liz's particularly icy deployment of "the freeze," are two of the few truly DS moments to be enjoyed in this film.

And if it weren't for your artistry, MB, I'm not sure I would ever have been aware of them.

G.

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« on: July 11, 2017, 09:28:20 PM »

Wonderful captures, MB! What a gorgeous man he is!

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '17 II / Re: A look at 12 incredible made-for-TV horror films from the ’70s and ’80s

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Calendar Events / Announcements '17 II / Re: The Passions Fan Festival at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles 7/23

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