As posted by Matthew Hall today on FB:
Graysonites:
"Here's the deal: Sam Hall, my sainted father, is moving out of the house he bought with my mother about 35 years ago. There are quite a number of Grayson Hall things that I'd like to see go to deserving homes-- I may be Ebaying some of them. But let's start with the biggest one: anybody want to buy Grayson Hall's baby grand piano, a Lester made in Philadelphia on which she took lessons when she was young, and I took lessons when I was a boy? It was played at parties (in the red living room of yore) by Hazel Scott and Bobby Short and others, too. Sold as is, could use some varnish and cleaning, needs to be tuned. Not a valuable piano but a nice one. Message me if curious."

May 8th episode of Thunk Tank.
Weird intro for 3 minutes and then you'll hear some familiar music.
Matt talks about working on 1991 Revival series (and story of Johnny Depp and Iman suggested for Barnabas & Angelique), his Mom (and fears the film insults her), casting of Frid, etc.

http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/thunk-tank-bronwyn-jay-wfmu/id381304262

Hey folks...which of Joan's films aside from Scarlet Street, HODS and the Brides flicks is she best remembered for?

DS head writer, Sam Hall's 90th Birthday is today.

Interesting that a google news alert I had set for Grayson came up with this today.

Words to the wise who trust Wikipedia as an infallible source:

I've noted in the last year or two, someone (maybe several someones) keep fiddling with Grayson's bio data on Wiki.  Now I know its free, and for "everyone" but the information is just plain WRONG.   Grayson's parents weren't Mordecai and Ida, they were Joseph and Eleanor, her father was a used car salesman (and a bookie and a few other less savory things) ...She only went to Cornell for 1 semester and there is no evidence she was a student at Temple, though she may have been a bit player in some of their productions (though I found no evidence of that either).  And she didn't have a "long" battle with cancer; she was diagnosed and died 6 months to the day of her diagnosis.

Sooo please spread the word and if you note errors, let me know so they can be corrected. 
I footnoted the information about her parents today, hopefully that will cause the "editors" to rethink changing it.
Leading to some of the confusion may be there was a 2nd Shirley Grossman in Philadelphia at the time, AND she also went to Simon Gratz High School but they are two different girls...photos of the two clearly demonstrate this (as well at the birth dates and parents names). ...

rant over.

Another vote on scariest vampire story, current Barnabas is #2

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tory-burch/vampires-once-bitten_b_680210.html#s126329

From another thread--wherein folks started listing their Favorite Julia excuses...MB suggested a new thread to list favorite Julia scenes...

"Take it away Rosedale!"