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Calendar Events / Announcements '03 II / Re:Weekend in Tarrytown
« on: December 01, 2003, 06:51:01 AM »
So, uh, how is this "Dark Shadows Weekend" different from a "Dark Shadows Festival"?

Well, it appears to be a Roger Davis-free gathering, which means we won't get to hear about Viewmont North.  ;D

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Calendar Events / Announcements '03 II / Re:New David Selby Film Project
« on: November 28, 2003, 07:07:26 AM »
Talking to myself again.  ;D

Larva is indeed a film for Sci-Fi that should air some time next year.

A Springfield area newspaper did a feature on the movie this week, and it includes a photo of David on location with Rachel Hunter. He's wearing a black cowboy hat. Yee haw.

Christian County Headliner News

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Calendar Events / Announcements '03 II / Re:New David Selby Film Project
« on: November 27, 2003, 07:52:09 PM »
Some additional info on the film . . .

It is a television film, and the lead actress is Rachel Hunter (former SI swimsuit model). Hunter is featured in a photo taken on location for the Missouri Film Commission's newsletter:

http://www.mofilm.org/pdf/WebWrapUp.pdf

It appears that Larva is part of the 2004-2005 season of original movies for Sci-Fi Channel. The synopsis of the film according to Sci-Fi press releases:

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A dirty meatpacking company becomes overrun with larva but still sells the contaminated meat. Customers get more than they bargained for when the larva begins growing inside them.

Mmmm. Yummy.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '03 II / Re:@@@ "Happy sWitcholeen!!" @@@
« on: November 25, 2003, 05:23:14 AM »
Well, the eyes appear to be devoid of lashes, so that rules out guessing a Donna McKechnie character.  ;D

Whoever it is, the person desperately needs to get hold of some Visine to get the red out.

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Current Talk '03 II / Re:DS run on SciFi to end Dec. 30
« on: November 25, 2003, 02:13:20 AM »
They are also taking off Star Trek and Twilight Zone? Well that really does it for me. Sci-Fi can kiss my _  before I'll watch their stupid channel again!

Umm. Don't quote me on this, but, unless it's a very bizarre coincidence, I think David Selby's new film project, Larva, may be for Sci-Fi Channel. The press releases that they have circulated about next season's original movies list a film with this title. Perhaps it's not the same one . . .

BTW . . . There is an emoticon to suit your purposes:

 [a144]

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The site lists this event as being held at the Heritage Bookstore. Since there are apparently two locations for this store in Springfield, I'm not sure which one this is supposed to be.

DavidSelby.com has been updated today and indicates that the address Minja listed above is the correct location.

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The Official David Selby Web Site is reporting that David will be reading his poetry and signing copies of his books in December in Springfield, Missouri.

The site lists this event as being held at the Heritage Bookstore. Since there are apparently two locations for this store in Springfield, I'm not sure which one this is supposed to be.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '03 II / New David Selby Film Project
« on: November 19, 2003, 06:09:01 AM »
According to the Official David Selby Site, David is supposed to begin shooting a new horror film this month with the working title Larva.

There's no information yet about whether it's a theatrical or television release and when it will be out.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '03 II / Donna McKechnie in New Photo Book
« on: November 17, 2003, 07:19:52 PM »
For anyone looking for a gift for the theatre fan, you may want to check out The Sweater Book: Hundreds of People...One Common Thread, a collection of photos by Stephen Mosher. Two-thirds of his proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to AIDS-related charities.

The book features photos of various Broadway and NYC personalities wearing the same sweater. Playbill Online's web site explains the story behind the book and includes a few photos from the book featuring, among others, Donna McKechnie.

If you're interested in the book and can't find it in your local bookstore, Amazon.com sells it.

C.

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Current Talk '03 II / Re:The New DARK SHADOWS?
« on: November 14, 2003, 05:34:13 AM »
And here's another fine example of misrepresenting a source. This is based on the same Variety piece other media sources have been quoting all week. The difference is that they decided to substitute the original source's description of a negotiation in progress with the phrase "The WB has ordered a pilot."

Apparently, this was written by a former employee of the New York Times.   [flaming]

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Calendar Events / Announcements '03 II / Re:Question #1: Worthington Miner
« on: November 13, 2003, 04:37:36 PM »
Rachel Miner is Peter Miner's daughter.

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Current Talk '03 II / Re:The New DARK SHADOWS?
« on: November 13, 2003, 02:27:22 PM »
;D Shakespeare was kinda like the Dan Curtis of his time, if I follow the above correctly?

Umm, no. I was merely pointing out that one of the most culturally revered writers could easily be accused of being unoriginal if your criteria for originality involved new storylines and characters.

Curtis employed techniques that all writers/creators/producers, including Shakespeare use, which Nancy noted above in reference to the formulaic storylines that are reworked.

(This is obviously not the forum for it, but I generally take issue with the extremely high pedestal upon which WS has been placed based on reading other writers from the period whose work is as good, if not better. Same holds true with the notion that Chaucer is apparently the only Middle English poet for some people.)

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Current Talk '03 II / Re:The New DARK SHADOWS?
« on: November 12, 2003, 02:19:06 AM »
Not only that but why can't Dan Curtis or others come up with another original idea?  Seems the notion of originality is at a premium anymore.  Move on already!

I've got to comment on this because we've hit the point of the semester in my fan-themed composition course when we discuss fan creations -- web sites, fan fiction, fan art, and fan music videos (aka songvids or fan vids). It all keeps coming back to this concept of originality and what is original and what is derivative.

As a product of ivory tower culture, I'm supposed to look down on all of this fan nonsense as derivative and unoriginal, but there is a very problematic double standard at play. How can I condemn fan creations as unoriginal when I've spent a great deal of time working with Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, much of which is derived from Boccaccio's Il Filostrato, Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, and the work of Dante? Then Shakespeare had to go rework it again as Troilus and Cressida, and God forbid anyone call him unoriginal.

This whole idea of working and reworking the same storyline is central to canonical literature just as much as it is to fandom, and it's even more a part of Dark Shadows fandom because the source product itself, Curtis' series and films and the authorized novels, represent a working and reworking and revising and extending of the same storyline.

So "originality" is a very slippery concept within media fandom in general, perhaps more so in Dark Shadows fandom.

So is Curtis to be condemned for wanting to revisit this story again and again when so many of us do it in the various things that we as fans create? It seems problematic to hold him to a standard that we do not exactly feel held to ourselves.

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Current Talk '03 II / Re:WITHOUT DARKSHADOWS
« on: November 06, 2003, 06:13:36 AM »
Getting back to Annie's original post about the final weeks of DS on Sci-Fi . . .

I was greeted this evening with a lovely missive from my cable company informing me that they will be adding Sci-Fi to their non-digital lineup at the end of the year. Swell timing.  ::)


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Calendar Events / Announcements '03 II / Re:DavidSelby.com
« on: November 05, 2003, 03:33:04 AM »
Umm. Thanks. [blshy]