[stupid]Talking to myself again . . .

An additional fifteen photos of David from the cast reunion at the 2002 Dark Shadows Festival have been added to the site:

http://www.ldrservicesonline.com/davidselbysite

These are also from NancyMck.

Criseyde

Yes, but everyone who's on the forum isn't necessarily listed there. 

Ok, MB. So when are you going to fix this board so that it'll list my multiple personalities when I -- oops, I mean WE -- log on to the forum? 

I guess the fan reation was stronger than they expected and the new, less definite tact is an attempt to placate a lot of upset people.

I think it would be fair to guess that the actors -- since they only received word by virtue of the fact that fans contacted KLS who then apparently began to inform her castmates within the past few days -- may also require a bit of placating.

I guess they really don't read all the Dark Shadows message boards, email lists, and web sites after all. 

Congratulations, Kuanyin.

I was expecting an admission of guilt for some hideous crime against humanity based on your subject line. 

What a pleasant surprise. 

Maitland was also in the original Broadway cast of Mame with Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur.

He played Peter Dennis, who appears in the final moments of the show as Patrick Dennis' son.

Maitland was also the understudy for the role of Patrick Dennis as a young boy.

Whether he was wigged, wigless, or wiggy, I know not.

First, thanks for all the fuss, everybody. It's very odd to get congrats for doing something you really enjoy anyway, but don't tell the university that, or they'll cut my salary down to less than a half a living wage. 

May I ask in what department your course is offered?  My first guess would be English...but it could also be Comm Arts or even Sociology, couldn't it? 

The course is taught through the English dept. and is offered as an alternative to the generic "pop culture" version of freshman comp. that doesn't concentrate on any one topic. This course just concentrates on one element of pop culture for the semester, and, in my case, it really has to do with the intersections and perceived oppositions between popular or fan culture and academic culture. The dept likes it because we're increasingly having to treat the freshman yr of college as the 5th yr of high school, and the course offers an intro to academic culture that encourages interrogation of its practices.

A lot of what we read is drawn from authors with a solid reputation in media and fan studies -- Henry Jenkins, Camille Bacon-Smith, Constance Penley, etc. We also use stuff from psychology and sociology journals.

The class begins by looking at "official" products and fan activities and moves on to "unofficial" fan creations like fanfic, songvids, message boards, web sites, etc. Then we wind up by examining media representations of fans. This semester, we watched The King of Comedy, a De Niro / Scorsese film, and Trekkies, which won't be making a return appearance next semester because my students don't even know the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek, and it was anticlimactic after having seen raw footage from the DS Festival earlier in the semester. 

Hi Annie & Debra,

Glad you enjoyed the update.

Unfortunately, the ladies who went to the play are a little shy about having their picture on the web, so I can't show you the photo they had taken with David, unless I crop them out.

It looks sorta funny, but I thought you'd get a kick out of it anyway.