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Calendar Events / Announcements '24 I / Grayson Hall's 1966 French film

« on: January 17, 2019, 03:44:29 AM »

Grayson Hall's 1966 French film, WHO ARE YOU, POLLY MAGOO? (QUI ETES-VOUS, POLLY MAGOO?) is now available for streaming on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Who-Are-You-Polly-Maggoo/dp/B073SGXXPZ

Grayson has four scenes in the film and speaks flawless French! You can hear some of Grayson's lines in this short soundscape item: https://soundcloud.com/tokyoagent/cosmicolor-magnifique

G.

Calendar Events / Announcements '24 I / The Secret of Victoria Winters--Marilyn Ross

« on: January 13, 2019, 06:29:28 AM »

I saw this link earlier today. According to the late Craig Hamrick, Dan ("Marilyn") Ross wrote a novella, THE SECRET OF VICTORIA WINTERS, for the Paperback Gothic DS series. The text would seem to have been composed sometime in 1968. I guess the book was canceled. It seems quite odd since a four chapter novella does not at all fit the usual format of Ross's work. This MS was originally published in a 1993 fanzine--I obviously have no idea whether it was really the work of Mr. Ross.

http://www.darkshadowsonline.com/victoria/secret_story.html

G.

Calendar Events / Announcements '18 / Grayson Hall - MAN FROM UNCLE (1966)

« on: December 30, 2018, 06:43:21 PM »

Fans, a couple of nights ago, I was staying with family who have a better internet connection than I do, and I watched this upload of Grayson's MAN FROM UNCLE story, "The Pieces of Fate Affair"

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x59nij6

I've seen all her surviving TV guest appearances (keep hoping more will turn up), and I regard this as the best role she ever got in any of them, from what is available. Decent script by Harlan Ellison and great wardrobe for Grayson. The legendary Theo Marcuse who died in a road accident in '68 or '69 also appears. He was in the (in)famous Halloween themed episode of STAR TREK, "Catspaw" (script by Robert Bloch).

Happy New Year!

G.

Calendar Events / Announcements '18 / OT: Joseph Gordon-Leavitt and Lady Gaga duet (2013)

« on: December 08, 2018, 01:39:24 AM »

Seems as if everybody is talking this year about the old song "Baby, it's cold outside." A friend of mine found this incredible version by our very own little Joseph Gordon-Leavitt and Lady Gaga (showing genuine supernatural powers in her abilities to choreograph wearing an incredible 1940s styled dress).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtoW4aV-CIc

Season's greetings,

G.

Calendar Events / Announcements '18 / Today in Soap Opera History

« on: October 26, 2018, 06:31:31 PM »

Hard to believe this was 51 years ago!

https://www.welovesoaps.net/2018/10/today-in-soap-opera-history-october-26.html

Quote:

1967: On Dark Shadows, Dr. Julia Hoffman's (Grayson Hall) experiments with Barnabas Collins' (Jonathan Frid) blood went terribly awry and his youthful appearance reverted to that of a 175-year-old vampire. The horribly disfigured Barnabas accused Julia of having taken revenge on him after he rebuffed her romantic overtures. Julia denied the charge, but reveled in the fact that Barnabas had to cancel his pending rendezvous with Vicki.

I'm just remembering Julia's egging Barnabas on to attack Vicki in one of the two Old Barnabas scripts. Julia's character is written really inconsistently in those two shows. I still have no idea what was going on there.

G.

Calendar Events / Announcements '18 / 2009 column about DS

« on: October 24, 2018, 09:40:26 PM »

A friend sent this to me, as Tommy Keene was a favorite singer-songwriter of his. I gather Mr. Keene is no longer among the living. Perhaps he's watching Dark Shadows in that eternal video lounge Beyond.

http://magnetmagazine.com/2009/02/17/from-the-desk-of-tommy-keene-dark-shadows/

cheers, G.

Calendar Events / Announcements '18 / Greystone--nice photos

« on: October 12, 2018, 05:43:21 PM »

Interesting article about Greystone, with really nice photos of various rooms of the interior as well as the grounds. I didn't know the estate had been used as a shooting location for the Bette Davis film DEAD RINGER (1964)--a delightful film.

https://www.abandonedspaces.com/uncategorized/shooting-location-in-hollywood.html

G.

Calendar Events / Announcements '18 / OT: CRUISE INTO TERROR (1978)

« on: October 05, 2018, 03:47:18 AM »

I'm watching this 1978 TV movie, CRUISE INTO TERROR, about the discovery of an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus by a troubled ship in the Gulf of Mexico. The dialogue is hilariously bad but the movie does boast a wonderful score by Gerald Fried (who I think composed for STAR TREK--some of the leit-motifs sound familiar) and a fun cast including such familiar faces as Hugh O'Brian, Lee Meriwether, John Forsythe, and Stella Stevens. Ray Milland as a professor looks and sounds so much like Sam Hall that I figured I had to post about the film on here. I wonder whether Grayson ever commented on the resemblance.

Ray Milland appears in several other Seventies tv-movies that are available on Youtube, including BLACK NOON with Yvette Mimieux and the deliciously awful LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENED TO ROSEMARY'S BABY (with Tina Louise as a retired madam who is also some kind of High Priestess of Satan).

Link for CRUISE INTO TERROR--warning, this seems to be have digitized from a home recorded VHS tape; the picture is grainy and blurred. Reminiscent of watching one of these on a UHF station with foil-wrapped rabbit ears as we used to do for many years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SdqY8nbcAc&index=7&list=PL8VpLcXt2Cdl1ASk7phwGBJOXO-XTulQX&t=0s

G.

Calendar Events / Announcements '18 / OT: Another cheap, insufferable pig

« on: September 19, 2018, 05:49:53 PM »

I don't watch American Horror Show, but a friend does. She mentioned a character named Michael Langdon and I looked him up. Warning: this link is spoiler heavy--I personally don't care, but others might.

http://americanhorrorstory.wikia.com/wiki/Michael_Langdon

The actor is very attractive in a rather fey, sinister way. Again, all this makes me think that the guy who writes these shows must be a major DS fan.

G.

Calendar Events / Announcements '18 / OT: Dreams of Darkness

« on: September 12, 2018, 01:29:26 PM »

According to the director (who is an online buddy of mine), this film which was completed 4 or 5 years ago is finally about to be released on DVD. He is a huge fan of NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS, and I think it shows in his work here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihovdBuP-tk

He always asks me how John Karlen is doing, whenever I hear from him.

G.

Calendar Events / Announcements '18 / Lela Swift - Alien Lover (1975)

« on: September 10, 2018, 05:31:39 AM »

Fans of Kate Mullgrew might be interested to see this offbeat story, originally broadcast in the ABC Wide World of Mystery in 1975. "Alien Lover" also stars Pernell Roberts and Susan Brown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_IYrGqehgY

Directed by Lela Swift and shot on video. A fan who has been researching this series states that several of the stories that were shot were subsequently discarded from the ABC vaults in 1978. The source for this particular one seems to be a Sci Fi channel broadcast, presumably in the early to mid 1990s.

G.

Current Talk '18 / Old House basement door

« on: September 03, 2018, 07:55:51 PM »

Fans, I was playing this video of the credits for Horror of Dracula (1958), one of my favorite films, today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ0KW6IqjxI

I somehow never noticed that it looks as if the cellar door in the Old House, the door to the stairs that lead down to where Barnabas's coffin is kept, seems to have been copied from the crypt door seen towards the end of this little sequence. Plus, the music is AWESOME.

cheers, G.

Calendar Events / Announcements '18 / OT: Aunt Agatha's Tarot cards

« on: July 23, 2018, 04:00:43 PM »

Fans, I was alerted by a "blog" entry I perused this morning that (to me iconic) Sixties actress Caroline Blakiston (who I have enjoyed in everything from THE AVENGERS to SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY to the Alec McCowen series MR PALFREY OF WESTMINSTER) acted in the role of Aunt Agatha in the new POLDARK series which is about to unveil its fourth season. Aunt Agatha was written out last year, but you can see clips of her reading her Tarot cards (it looks as if the same deck was used as seen in 1795 in the hands of the Countess du Pres) here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re1Qjvd7dKU

Historically, someone like Aunt Agatha would have read ordinary playing cards, by far the commonest tool for divination in early modern Europe. It wasn't until the 1960s that Tarot cards began to be popular, partly because Tarot decks were not at all widely available before that time. The books of Eden Gray popularized Tarot in the US during the Sixties, and soon after Gray began publishing, others followed in her train.

G.

Calendar Events / Announcements '18 / Progeny of the Adder (1965) and THE NIGHT STALKER (1972)

« on: July 18, 2018, 01:41:12 PM »

Fans of the original 1972 NIGHT STALKER film might find this of interest:

http://toomuchhorrorfiction.blogspot.com/2010/07/progeny-of-adder-by-leslie-whitten-1965.html

Novelist Leslie Whitten tried to sue (ABC or Dan Curtis, I believe) but according to a brief note in an article about this I just read, had to drop the suit.

G.

Calendar Events / Announcements '18 / OT: Fahrenheit 451

« on: May 16, 2018, 11:50:30 PM »

I don't think this has anything to do with DS--a friend told me today that a new film of Ray Bradbury's novel FAHRENHEIT 451 is going to air on HBO:

https://www.hbo.com/movies/fahrenheit-451/cast-and-crew

I've seen several news stories in recent years about libraries throwing away their books in massive quantities due to the erroneous belief that "everything is on the cloud now." It's strange to think that a lot of what has survived other phases of destruction in human history might be wiped out through sheer negligence in the internet age.

G.