Just a few small additions to mention:

• a 1998 article from the Sunday Gazette-Mail (in Charleston, West Virginia) that includes some quotes from David about his play Lincoln and James, which he had previously performed at the 1997 Dark Shadows Festival in New York. Since that time, David has continued to work on rewrites of the play for possible future performances.
  
  
• a 1990 article/interview from the Toronto Star about David's decision to leave Falcon Crest. (The show wound up being axed at the end of this season anyway, but David had decided to leave prior to the network's decision.)
  
  
• a clarification regarding some misinformation that surfaced on a couple of Dark Shadows Yahoo groups last week regarding David's appearance schedule

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LOL. The Dell computer dude is from my hometown. The local press covers him like he's Marlon Brando. He got into a bit of trouble with the union recently over filming commercials during a strike. (So did Tiger Woods, btw. I'm sure that fine will be a crushing blow to his yearly income.  )

I was much happier when the only actor of note from town was the guy who played Mr. Belding on Saved by the Bell. I consider him much cooler for having appeared in the same episode of the Dukes of Hazzard as Cale Yarborough.

It's good to be a redneck.  

Happy Birthday, Midnite!

Now go find yourself an unoccupied Hertz counter and par-tay.

Not exactly a unique thing even on today's sets. Some friends and I took the Warner Bros studio tour prior to the last Festival and got to walk around on the ER set.

The stairs lead down to a (stinky) pile of dirt and they lead up to nowhere. Any scenes with an actor running up flight after flight of stairs are shot on the same "flight" with the wall hangings adjusted to make the floors look different.

The stairways aren't any bigger than what you see on DS, so there's not much room for running.

I've just added some screen grabs and an audio clip from the film The Shot to my David Selby site. This is an NYU film school short that David did in the early 1990s. I believe this was shown at the 1999 Dark Shadows Festival as well.

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Upon closer examination, I realized that this thread actually calls for the two most disturbing DS moments. So let me add to my original remarks:

(1) Amanda Harris
(2) Olivia Corey

And Sheenasma will back me up on this.  

Lately, they seem to be giving short shirft to their "classic" soaps. The most recent lineup change involved squeezing in another airing of current episodes of ABC soaps to the daily schedule.

The current ABC soaps air 3 times a day on SoapNet plus at least once in a weekend marathon.

In a recent article about the falling ratings of daytime soaps, someone associated with one of the ABC soaps complained that the multiple airings of their show on SoapNet were killing the ratings for the program when it aired on the network.

No idea if that particular opinion is common, has any merit, or will impact SoapNet programming, since their budget seems pretty tight.

There was a rumor circulating on the web a few months ago that SoapNet had acquired the broadcast rights to the 1991 DS series as part of a preliminary move to make a play for the original series when it comes up for grabs. Supposedly, the 91 series would become part of the weekend rotation on SoapNet, and they were also supposed to be adding Loving to their lineup.

However, that was all rumor, and there's probably little if any truth to it.  

Now all we need is an afterglow picture of Criseyde.

The Surgeon General has determined that posting such a photo could be dangerous to Sheenasma's health. Then again, she doesn't worry too much about health warnings.