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Thanks, joey! This is perfect for April Fool's Day, and the joke's on Newsweek!  [easter_wink]

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Current Talk '16 I / Re: N.N.O.T. - Secret Beyond the Door
« on: March 10, 2016, 03:10:52 PM »
Thanks, Patti, that's exactly what I'm planning!  [easter_smiley]

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Current Talk '16 I / Re: N.N.O.T. - Secret Beyond the Door
« on: March 05, 2016, 06:26:11 PM »
Here's the IMDB link to the movie. Michael Redgrave plays the husband. I haven't seen it but it sounds really cool!

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I also saw the obit in the NY Times. He was a wonderful performer--I especially loved how he used his hands, especially when calling up whatever demonic forces the plots demanded. Now that I know he studied piano, I'm not the least bit surprised. (Bela Lugosi had a similar background.)

HAA was a true class act.

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Current Talk '16 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #1045
« on: February 28, 2016, 01:04:48 AM »
Good for your mom! Even now, a lot of female characters don't have names.  [snow_angry]

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Current Talk '16 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #1044
« on: February 27, 2016, 07:33:00 PM »
Even so!  [snow_blush] [snow_blush] [snow_blush]

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Current Talk '16 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #1041
« on: February 27, 2016, 07:27:36 PM »
Very well said, MT!

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Current Talk '16 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #1045
« on: February 26, 2016, 08:54:17 PM »
Well, Julia has had some practice now, and she doesn't need to infuse Roxanne with the life force herself. And I suppose she could send Will to actually do all the shopping. After all, why would "Hoffman" need to buy two great big electrical switches?  [snow_wink]

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Current Talk '16 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #1044
« on: February 26, 2016, 08:51:51 PM »
Maybe that's why Hoffman hasn't tipped off Angelique about her being dead. She may be thinking that Ange will find out pretty soon.

And yes, Barn and Julia really do need to be more careful. But once Barn starts thinking with his, um, fangs, it's pretty hard to turn him aside.

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Current Talk '16 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #1045
« on: February 22, 2016, 04:00:37 PM »
Will's end is one of the most riveting scenes in the whole series--or ever on TV for that matter. Kudos to both LP and JK.

Ange forces Will to admit she was the "inspiration" behind his books. It certainly is ironic that she is responsible for PT Barn's biography, and in a way responsible for RT Barn's arrival in PT.

Will climbs up onto the windowsill, Julia comes into the room. Stunned at the tableau before her, she takes a step toward the other two when Will screams. Angelique moves toward him, and he simply lets go. In a moment he is lying dead on the terrace below the window.

Angelique is beside herself with fury at "Hoffman." They race downstairs to the terrace to check on Will. In the excitement of this medical emergency, Julia forgets herself so far as to feel his neck and declare authoritatively that he’s dead--his spine was severed immediately on impact. Have you a medical degree? Angelique asks sarcastically. “Hoffman” covers up by saying, Long ago I saw another man die the same way. I remembered what the doctor said. You have a good memory, Angelique comments with more sarcasm, but “Hoffman” merely agrees. Angelique says, We’d better go inside in case someone tries to connect us with Will’s death.

It’s sunset, time for the editing flub of the day: coffin; oops, should have showed Loomis House first; coffin again. Barnabas wakes to another night. He decides to check the life force in the secret room but quickly grabs a book off the shelf instead at the sound of Angelique’s voice behind him. No, I wasn’t snooping, she (still wearing yesterday’s dress) tells him: I know you keep your secrets well hidden, Mr. Collins. Actually, I’m here to extend my condolences to the widow. (No one seems to have seen Carolyn lately). Grabbing her shoulders roughly, he demands, What have you done to Will? Smugly she tells him, I had absolutely nothing to do with Will’s death. He chose to jump from the tower at Collinwood rather than reveal your secret. Barnabas is stunned as Angelique continues, The power you hold over him is the reason he died. You’d better leave, Barnabas replies, deeply offended but also turning aside guiltily. I will, she agrees pleasantly, but I just want to tell you one thing: I very nearly found out the secret before Will died. His death has made me all the more determined to find out who--or what--you really are. Get out! Barnabas roars, oozing anger and menace from every pore. I’ll see you at the funeral, Mr. Collins, is her parting shot.

In a mere twenty-four hours Julia has managed to fit up the basement at Loomis House as a laboratory, complete with giant electrical switches (basically the same equipment used for Adam). A pair of large red candles (at least one with Christmas garlanding of green plastic leaves) are lit in the background, perhaps to make Barnabas feel more at home. The “life force” girl is on a table, still with her industrial-strength false eyelashes. We can see that her short red hair is styled in a “waif” haircut. While filling a syringe Julia admits regretfully to Barnabas, I arrived too late to rescue Will. Will is dead because of me, Barnabas replies, full of remorse. Julia comforts him by saying, Angelique probably wouldn’t have let him live anyway--he knew too much. We must continue the experiment so that she’ll be helpless, Barnabas says with new determination. Julia reminds him, Even if Angelique is rendered harmless, we’ll still have to deal with Stokes. Turning to the matter at hand, she says, I plan to combine mild shock treatment with stimulants in the hope of reviving the girl. She administers the injection, then pulls the switches. Lights flash--but nothing happens. But she has to get back to Collinwood to avoid making Angelique any more suspicious than she already is. She suggests that Barnabas stay with the girl in case of some delayed reaction.

Barnabas watches the motionless girl. What is the real reason I’m doing this? he wonders. Why do I so desperately want her to open her eyes and look at me? He admits to himself, It isn’t just on account of the experiment. How could I possibly reach her? Gently he touches her cheek. Her blue-gray eyes open and look directly into his dark and haunted ones. His grim, sad face suddenly lights up.

Angelique is coming down the staircase at Collinwood when she suddenly begins to feel faint.

Barnabas gently supports the girl and helps her stand on her feet. Can she be smiling ever so faintly?

Angelique suddenly screams and falls to the floor....

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Current Talk '16 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #1044
« on: February 22, 2016, 03:52:47 PM »
Amy sticks to her guns and insists she saw Quentin and adds, But he climbed into the house through a window--why would Quentin do that? Then I heard the same man at my bedroom door (though since he didn’t open it I don’t know how she knew it was him). “Alexis” remarks, When I was a child, I had an overactive imagination too.

At Stokes’s cottage, Barnabas and Will are now in the room with the body. Barnabas has the grace to say, I feel a strange kind of humility in daring to try this without Julia’s help.

Apparently, all that's needed is for Barn and Will just to be in the room with the body for Angelique to feel faint.

Stokes keeps those old marble-covered notebooks, but they contain no useful information.

Angelique finally realizes what's wrong and dashes out of Collinwood. Brave Amy decides to explore the dusty West Wing all by herself.

Angelique is too late--Barn and Will have removed the body.

Barnabas, Julia, and Will are in the secret room behind the bookcase at Loomis House, so it isn’t the basement for the body after all. You have no idea what you’ve started, Julia scolds Barnabas. Will says Barnabas has explained it all to him, but Julia asks to speak to Barnabas alone. I know you’re against this, Barnabas tells her, but it’s done now. No, Julia says, it’s just beginning. Julia is in the middle of telling Barnabas what a big mistake he’s made when, as if to illustrate her point, Angelique arrives looking for him. Our favorite couple listen from inside the secret room as Will, who’s in the drawing room, tells Angelique that Barnabas isn’t home and that he (Will) doesn’t know when he (Barnabas) will be back. Will flounders for an excuse, finally hypothesizing that Barnabas must have a girl tucked away somewhere (not too much of a stretch). That is a girl I’d like to meet, Angelique says, and Will agrees. He has a very hard time getting her to leave.

In the secret room, Barnabas and Julia hear the front door close. Barnabas remarks, I know, Julia--you want to say, I told you so, and you’ll be right. No, Barnabas, she answers sadly, I don’t want to say it at all. Will knocks on the bookcase to tell them that Angelique is gone but warns them not to come out yet, since she may be back. We may as well start to work, Julia says, and Barnabas looks at her in surprise. I changed my mind, she says simply. You know what has to be done here, and because of the danger now..., Barnabas starts, and Julia nods in reply. Gratefully he presses her hand between his.

Although in our time band the West Wing of Collinwood is inhabited, in parallel time it’s deserted and empty. (In our time band it’s the East Wing that’s deserted, but that’s where Angelique’s room is in parallel time.) As she explores the West Wing’s dusty, cobwebbed corridors, Amy tells herself, I’m sure I won’t find anything. Then, a little excited at her own daring, she says, Daniel won’t believe I did this--he thinks I’m always scared. She has entered one of the many rooms when she suddenly hears the door to the West Wing open and close. Footsteps approach her, and she hurries out of the room to hide behind a screen next to the door. Someone opens the door and enters the room. Amy emerges from behind her screen.

Ange complains to "Hoffman" about her frequent unavailability. Julia pleads "other concerns." Ange orders her to go to the Blue Whale and get Tim, adding, Meanwhile, I’ll think very hard about how Barnabas could have found out about that girl. Julia says maybe he didn’t, but Angelique tells her, I’m not so naive as you are--and you’re far more trusting than you ever were before.

Which way? Amy thinks to herself as she walks down the hallway toward the Tower Room. (On a commode in the hall is the same pathetic stuffed boar that frightened our Carolyn in the Todds’ antique shop.) Sure enough, she sees light spilling out from under the door. Entering the room, she finds a dust-free cot (made up with the Famous Peripatetic Brown Afghan, which come to think of it, Yaeger borrowed for Maggie), but what’s more interesting to Amy and us is the good old Apollo Belvedere miniature, complete with ascot.

At Loomis House, Barnabas tells Will, We must prove to Quentin that “Alexis” is Angelique by showing him the body in that room. He orders Will, I want you to find Quentin--tonight. Angelique is helping him, so he must be somewhere on the grounds or in the house.

Julia arrives at the Stokes cottage alone and does nothing to dispel Angelique’s assumption that her father was too drunk to be of any help. Angelique is convinced that Barnabas has the body. Why do you suspect Barnabas rather than someone else? Julia asks. Angelique replies, He is my enemy. Surely he knows that if he kills the girl, I will die. Why hasn’t he done it already? She gives Julia more orders, then observes again that “Hoffman” seems to be more trusting than she used to be.

Amy shows her find to “Uncle Will,” who conveniently happens to be in the drawing room at Collinwood, and tells him where she got it. (“Uncle” must be simply a courtesy title, since Will is related to the Collinses only by marriage.) To Amy’s surprise, Will says, I believe you. I’ll take care of everything.

Julia relates what she has learned to Barnabas. You shouldn’t have come back to the Old House, he tells her in alarm. She says Angelique went to her room. She might have been pretending and followed you, Barnabas frets. Julia says, I had to warn you that Angelique is absolutely certain you have the girl. She will stop at nothing until she destroys you! We must both be careful, they agree.

I must be careful, Will tells himself as he walks down the hall. Maggie says he’s mad. I hope he’ll realize I’m on his side, that I want to help him--unless Angelique has somehow changed him. Arriving at the Tower Room, A.B. in hand, he also finds a truly hideous necktie that almost certainly might be Quentin’s. Then he too hears footsteps, but it’s too late to leave the room or hide. As the door opens, he looks surprised....




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Current Talk '16 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #1041
« on: February 22, 2016, 03:23:26 PM »
The day I figured out how to turn off the AutoCorrect on my phone was one of the happiest days of my life.

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Current Talk '16 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #1041
« on: February 22, 2016, 12:18:25 AM »
Vampires work from sun(set) to sun(rise), but a woman's work is never done.  [snow_rolleyes]

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Current Talk '16 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #1042
« on: February 21, 2016, 06:35:58 PM »
Sorry about the cold water, MT!

I know that JB had a deal that she could appear on stage while the show was going on. I guess that's why her characters were in comas a lot of the time. Maybe DS wangled a similar deal. After all, the precedent had been set, and that would have been too good an opportunity to pass up.

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Current Talk '16 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #1041
« on: February 21, 2016, 06:29:30 PM »
Here is a pic of the original "Apollo Belvedere," at the Vatican Museum. I've never seen it in person, but I hope to--someday....