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Current Talk '02 II / Re: DS DVD's:  Changing Bad Story Elelment?
« on: November 07, 2002, 06:52:01 PM »
As someone with an interest in the archival preservation of our cultural heritage (and yes, DS IS a part of our cultural heritage--it's a part of the mythical lore I grew up with as a child) I have very strong feelings about tampering, in any way, with what has survived of the series.

I'm sure Mr. Spiel meant well with his revision of his own work.  But we all know what road is paved with good intentions.

Gothick

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To Rod and Brian, you both have my sympathy.  I tend to stay up late and often the house cat, Thumbelina (she's the real ruler in our house; we just live there because she enjoys our company) is often the only one around when it's empty and quiet.  Her tranquility and playful joie-de-vivre have beguiled many an otherwise dull hour.

I hope that your memories will bring you both some consolation.

Steve

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: HEY TURN OFF THE SECURITY ALARM!!
« on: November 06, 2002, 10:46:25 PM »
Connie, my dear,

Goodness, what an ... interesting photo of Mr. Collins. Why, wherever did you procure it?  I must order in one gross for the next Psychos for Selby ice cream social (DON'T wear your Sunday best for that cavalcade).

I'd speculate on what's happening to Quentin OUTSIDE the frame of the photo and specifically in his nether regions to, hmmm, STIMULATE such a GENEROUS smile from those rosebud lips of his ... but I really don't think stating the obvious is at all necessary in THIS room.

Heavens, how WARM it is in here.

Gothick

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Time Paradoxes--1795 & 1897!
« on: November 06, 2002, 02:25:56 AM »
Hi Cassandra,

Yes, in 1897 Angelique is aware of everything that happened in 1968, even though it was still in the future.  She knew Julia, and she recalled her life as Cassandra, too.

What happened to her is that she was sent backwards in time by Diabolos, to 1796.  After Barnabas put a torch to her during his changing of history in that time, the implication is that she remained in the Dark Realm until she was returned to this world through the incantations of Quentin and Evan.

I haven't read the rest of this topic yet, but this is my understanding of Angelique's current appearance in this story.

Best wishes,

Gothick

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Return to Collinwood in Autograph Collector!
« on: November 06, 2002, 02:21:12 AM »
Congrats on your publication.  I look forward to seeing it.  The tribute to Mr. Patrick sounds extra special. It is gratifying to see him remembered.

Steve

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Blue Sheets & Green Blankets
« on: November 06, 2002, 02:03:37 AM »
Those eyelashes are fabou, aren't they Rod?  I just imagine all the ladies crowding into their dressing rooms (I think most of them shared) glueing on their eyelashes every a.m.

The most important thing about Rachel Drummond's wardrobe is that it made KLS look divoon.  Any charter member of the TLATKLS club will tell you that that WAS the rationale behind costuming on the series.

So how many days before Don Briscoe shows up again?

Gothick

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Help!-Missed Dark Shadows
« on: November 05, 2002, 09:58:25 PM »
Hi Gianni,

I'd be very surprised if there were such a site--I'd think that would be construed as copyright violation since the series is still under copyright (though I know it's very convoluted--I am under the impression that Dan Curtis ultimately has the final say in terms of ownership of the series, despite Worldvision having the TV broadcast syndie rights, and MPI the home video rights).

I hope your VCR got today's shows.  If memory serves, they're good ones!

Gothick

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Calendar Events / Announcements '02 II / Re: ** It's Official! **
« on: November 05, 2002, 06:22:36 PM »
Gurrrrlll!  git those pumps, we're riding SHOTGUN tonight!

putting on my red dress, puttin on my hi-heeled shoes,

we're gonna dig pataters,

we're gonna pick tomaters,

ooo--ooo!

Jamming away to celebrate the glory that is DOM (and note that name, girls and boys--get ready for some whip cracking around here!)

xo  Tuffie

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Hi Midnite,

One of the reports I read said that he just passed this morning (day of the New Moon ... how fitting), which would account for why the big media organs haven't picked it up yet.

About a week or so ago when the late Harry Hay (founder of the Mattachine Society, the Radical Faeries, and more or less grandfather of the Gay Liberation movement) passed over I heard it first from people who knew people who knew him.  The news did not get posted in the national news media until a day later.

Loe,  Gothick

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Who do you dislike the most?
« on: November 05, 2002, 12:15:14 AM »
I agree with Linda, I think Dirk is a hoot!  He is the only Roger Davis character I find remotely watchable.  Though I think Diana Millay came close to slapping him a couple of times in their scenes together ...

According to Mr. Davis himself, as reported in one of the MPI DS behind the scenes videos (it might have been the 25th anniversary or the 30th anniversary one I'm not sure), Dan Curtis was very fond of RD and sort of kept him around as a matinee idol type on the series.  Given the source, I've always taken these stories with a grain of salt.  Generally, if a performer got good fan mail, they were brought back.  It could be that Davis had something of a following in illo tempore.  He does get profiled a fair amount in 16 and the other magazines, as do Don Briscoe, Chris Pennock, and Mike Stroka. Of course coverage for these guys is far outstripped by the publicity Jonathan Frid and David Selby received.

Gothick

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: ANGIE'S BEST ANGLE
« on: November 05, 2002, 12:07:46 AM »
My favorite incarnation of Angelique is Cassandra.  She was just such a delicious mixture of venom and glamour, yet the bitch had feelings, too.  There's something heartbreaking in those final scenes, when she comes to the Old House to kill Barnabas with a pistol, and says "You never had any idea what I was thinking or feeling!"  And then how beautifully Parker played the scenes when she was aged and literally fighting for her life. I always thought Cassandra was ultimately the most honest of Angelique's incarnations, in terms of confronting the reality of her relationship with Barnabas.

As for helpful Miss Ange in 1897, I always find it a hoot that she offers to help save David, but very much in her own interests.  And at one point when she's incanting, she offers the Devil Quentin's soul if he'll grant her prayer!  Yep, that's our Favorite Witch!

Lara Parker has a chapter entitled Out of Angelique's Shadow in the Dark Shadows Companion (this book may be out of print, for all I know) in which she discusses what she remembers  of the role.  I think she made it fairly clear there that her favorite scenes were from Angelique's original story in 1795.

Gothick

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Very sad to hear this news.  I'd come to think of Jonathan Harris as indestructible after seeing him in action at a couple of autograph shows 7 or 8 years ago.  He had the most unflappable energy.  Magnificent.  The voice was still very much there; the way he told his stories was dramatic and beautifully paced, but to the untrained eye, not "practiced" or seeming rehearsed at all.   His dark eyes twinkling with wit and sometimes, delightful malice as he retailed some tidbit or let fly a choice four letter word, invariably coming like a spicy amuse-gueule at the end of some impossibly fruity, flamboyant phrase.  After spending half an hour or so listening to his stories, one had no doubt that he put a hell of a lot of himself into the notorious Zachary Smith.

I'd always assumed that dear Jonathan was in my "family" so was quite surprised when I learned he was married and has a son, I believe, living somewhere. Of course, in the bad old days, everyone got married, and Jonathan would sometimes lob wicked innuendoes in the direction of a wide eyed sweet young thing (who often turned out to be not so sweet) to make sure everyone stayed on their toes.

As I've told several friends, one of my favorite memories is of Jonathan at a 1995 Boston Lost in Space cast appearance.  A break was ending in the autograph signing and they needed all the celebrities there so the signing could start again.  June Lockhart was missing.  Jonathan grabbed the mike and uttered these words, which rolled with exquisite and mellifluous modulation around whatever sports center/shopping mall it was where the show was happening in suburban Boston: "June Lockhart wanted to the podium instanta! Now get your ass up here, honey, pronto!"

I'm not sure she ever forgave him for that.

Gothick

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Calendar Events / Announcements '02 II / Re: Slightly OT: Mame Article
« on: November 01, 2002, 11:08:48 PM »
Thanks for this news.  I had wondered who was playing Auntie Mame.  I really cannot imagine McBroom in the role, but I really know nothing about her apart from the name.  I've never seen the Smurfs.

For me, Mame the musical will always be dominated by the figure of Angela Lansbury, although I first saw it in a touring production starring the great Edie Adams (another actress who deserved to be better known).  It was from reading the program notes to that production that I learned the word "effervescent" which was used to describe Edie, and boy, did it suit her to a T.

A year or two later my parents, after MUCH begging, took me to see Angela Lansbury in the show (I believe this was her last tour of it).  Priceless, magic, brilliance come to mind as adjectives to describe Miss Lansbury's presence onstage.

I'm probably the only person who thinks this, but I believe Grayson Hall would have made a grand Vera.  I know she would have done well with "The Man in the Moon is a Lady," given how she stopped the show with "The Ballad of the Lily in Hell" in Happy End.

Best, Steve

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: OT:  Joking
« on: November 01, 2002, 11:03:19 PM »
I've said it before, Midnite, and I know I'll say it again ...

You and the Mysterious Benefactor deserve platinum medals (gold just ain't classy enough, lol) for all you both do in this blessed corner of cyberspace!

Love,  Steve

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Thanks for posting this, Fran.  I miss Henry's uniquely "artistic" comments and his wonderfully insane genius.

I hope he's happy and having a wonderful day.

Gothick

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