A friend alerted me that this series is also available for free through hulu.  Or at least episode one was available.  I do not know if that means they will continue to carry it.

G.

I know I'm on the edge of getting way off topic here, but if you look closely when Ichabod wakes up from his "sleep" in that very witchy cave, there's one shot that shows his adorably pert nipple with exquisite chiaroscuro...

Just in case anybody out there cares.

I'll try to stop repeating this, but honestly--had the Depp/Burton version of Barnabas in 1972 been done like this... I would have been much happier with the results.  I played an interview today where Tom Mison mentioned that he had researched American speech patterns of the 1770s and tried playing the character with an authentic accent... the result was described as "inaudible" and "like pots and pans banging together."  I've read that Colonial Americans spoke with very flat vowels and an intonation much like what is today thought of as the Yorkshire accent... Tom mentioned another part of England.

cheers, G.

Nicholas' home is always called the House by the Sea. I remember the phrase from the lost Viewmaster booklet of long ago.  During the long years without DS, I read that booklet over and over again to give myself some time to commune with what I had once had.

If they were aiming for any kind of continuity then, yes, it would be the same house that Vicki, Burke, and Barnabas visited in 1967, which Vicki described as "a house by the sea."  Vicki found a hankie I've always thought might have belonged to Flora Collins (it had a monogram that could have fit Flora).

The set for Nicholas' house is nearly identical to the Lang palazzo.  I guess you get to choose for yourself where and what it was.  Love the scene where Roger takes Nicholas there.

G.

That's a wonderful photo of him. He is one s-e-x-y gent.

G.

I have a VHS tape of Gidget Gets Married and it's pretty bland fare.  Joan plays the sympathetic (and, of course, matronly) wife of some CEO-type jerk Jeff/Moondoggie, Gidget's hubby, needs to please to get ahead in the Stepford-like community they've moved into.

Joan only had a couple of scenes but looked elegant as always... and I could listen to her voice recite from the phonebook..

The movie might be on Youtube.  I noticed recently that Gidget grows up, which is a lot more fun, is there.

G.

I just played this trailer, which practically qualifies as a mini-episode of the new Sleepy Hollow series starting this evening (9/16)--I spotted a few visual and other references that suggest the "writers and producers of Star Trek" are big fans of the Burton/Depp DARK SHADOWS.  Warning, SPOILERS if you plan to watch tonight (or record it and watch in the week), and you don't like spoilers, you'll probably want to wait and watch this trailer till AFTER you see the episode:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hFg9qS_u3w

When I was young, Ichabod Crane was a gawky, tremulous scholar.  Now he's a hot, hunky soldier with an Oxbridge accent.  Times change, and not just from the 18th to the 21st century...

G.

Great capture today, MB--Pfeiffer with KLS, Lara and David. 

I don't remember Carolyn's line at all.  But then, I only saw it one time, and I didn't even realize when I was watching that Roger was going through the guests' coats to try and rip off their wallets, etc. before getting down to biz with Miss Check-girl.

Roger's role was so heavily cut down that I personally find it difficult to evaluate much about the character as shown.  He was certainly meant to be a sleazeball--that does come through with crystalline clarity.

But then, I'm so far from being an authority on the Burton-Depp production that even to comment may seem laughable...

G.

I've never seen Kim K in action and I still don't know what the HELL the women in that family ever did to justify the nonstop tabloid attention their lives seem to warrant.  They have a lot of cash, a penchant for trailer trash levels of romantic melodrama, use too much eyeliner and are on TV.  Who cares?  I don't.

Say what you will about Morgan, and I suspect this doesn't help you Bob, but some of us have very fond memories of Morgan's exciting and surprisingly active 1840s trouser snake. 

Mad Morgan did a hysterical cackle with great enthusiasm.  Uhhh... did Morgan have other talents? Tight revealing trousers that helped one "Hel-LO!" wake up in the morning, and a lurid cackle.  That may be it.

yours in cybaeria,

goth-EEEEK (or Morgan's preferred alias... go THICK)