The ex-Playboy Bunnies have their own web site, and it includes info about the reunion as well as photos from the Bunny days, bios of former Bunnies, etc. The main URL is:

http://mysite.freeserve.com/explayboybunnies/index.html

According to the site, KLS was the media liason for the reunion. She's also got a blurb in the Bio section of the site.

Curtis and Showtime aren't the only ones interested in dramatizing this particular situation. It's also showing up on stage:

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/85618.html

Some photos of Ports O'Call in San Pedro, recently featured in exteriors for the NBC series Providence:

http://www.seeing-stars.com/ImagePages/PortsOCallPhoto.shtml

http://www.seeing-stars.com/ImagePages/PortsOCallPhoto2.shtml

This same site also has a page devoted to Greystone:

http://www.seeing-stars.com/Live/Greystone.shtml

Though I'm cautiously optimistic, I think it's probably a bit early in the game to comment on whether the racial diversity in the casting is an entirely positive thing.

It's not just a matter of quantity, but of quality. What they do with the characters is as important as who portrays them. To take some of MLK's words somewhat out of context, you have to judge the content of their character, not simply the color of their skin. (That's why I'm not particularly impressed by the original DS having a black nurse or a mute gypsy played by a black actor considering that around the same time Star Trek was able to do much more in the way of incorporating non-white actors in meaningful roles.)

One need look no further than the recent film version of Wild Wild West to see how filmmakers, presumably with the good intentions of rewriting some of the stereotypical ethnic roles associated with the Western genre, can still royally screw it up.


C.

Yes, Patti, I checked to make sure the online streaming audio was actually working and that the schedule was correct, but I already have a copy of the play on CD from LATW so I didn't listen to the entire broadcast. 

Happy Birthday, MB!

Hope you were able to stop posting beefcake pictures long enough to enjoy some birthday cake. 

I've no problem with Greystone per se; it's certainly got the right look -- although I really hope they don't go the route of just using a different section to represent the Old House. That was a terrible, transparent maneuver in the 91 series that really destroyed credibility in the setting.

Yes, well, following the WB Studios tour in 2002, Sheenasma and I are still trying to digest that the Duke boys' house and Boss Hogg's house from The Dukes of Hazzard are, in fact, the front and back of the same house on the WB lot. But then you wouldn't know that just from watching the series. 

TBH, I think we might even see a tower - that'd be very easy to add digitally.  Thinking of it, there are lots of nifty digital fixes they could do... There's a walkway on the house that overlooks the vista of Los Angeles that they avoided showing in 1991 for obvious reasons - how amazing would that look with a cliff and the Atlantic dropped in?

Again, going back to info from the WB Studios tour, this is something that isn't even all that "new" in television shows. The home that was featured as the family residence in the opening sequence of the 80s series Growing Pains was digitally altered. IIRC, the house on the WB lot doesn't have a garage, so it was added on for the opening.

Just, please, for the love of God, no crappy models in the opening of the new DS like they used in 1991. Every time I see that, I think of the bit about Camelot from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I also think about the opening of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. 

Apparently, something is rotten in the state of Denmark. 

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.