The photos are beautiful, Mark. The leaves in my part of the country are already gone ... they last such a short time!

Sorry for being an ignoramus, but I'd be curious to know - where is Orland Park? The website gave no clue, either.
 

I assumed that this word "nun" popping up and replacing other words was some sort of joke that I was unaware of, but if so, I guess I'm not the only one who's clueless.

I don't think I'd go so far as to rank marriage among distant relatives up there with child labor, slavery, and the like. How distant is OK? Apparently, most European royalty is related to each other and marriage partners come from other royal families who are related. (And I discovered that my nephew and his girl friend, who met at college in a large city, are fourth cousins ... you never know what you'll find when you have a genealogist in the family!)

We've been told that marriage between first cousins became outlawed, presumably in the 20th century, because of advances in understanding genetics -- in other words, because of science, not moral or ethical reasons. However, I recently saw an article that said there actually is no reason, genetically speaking, that first cousins can't marry, because the genetic distance is great enough that fears that their offspring would have two heads, etc., is unfounded. I suspect that marriage between cousins simply seems uncomfortable to us because that is a 20th century view.

But to return to this as subject matter for Lara Parker's new novel, I would have to say it's not what I would be interested in reading.

I agree, this was one of the most unsettling events that transpired in Collinsport. TCM aired "The Collector" this summer, and I happened to catch some of it and remembered you had posted about that movie in the past, Gothick. Mr. Frid's performance at this point does share similarities with Terrance Stamp's psychologically creepy portrayal.

When I looked into the movie later, I was surprised to find that it was directed by the legendary William Wyler and was based on a novel by John Fowles, a popular and literary novelist popular in the 1960s (such as "The French Lieutenant's Woman"). And Stamp's costar was the always stunningly good Samantha Eggar.

A thoughtful article - thanks for the link Jimbo! (Also, it was good meeting you and "Evan Hanley" at the festival  ).

Isn't the article by our own "Zahir"?

Somehow or other I've missed out on the Members' Archive ... completely forgot about it. Now that I'm looking for some articles that have been mentioned in some older threads, I'm searching for the Members Archive and can't find it ... Can anyone help?

Thanks!

 

Thanks for answering my "Night of Dark Shadows" question, Darren (about why it wasn't in widescreen at the festival). I realize that the answers to many of my questions are probably to be found in the "Dark Shadows Movie Book" and have likely been addressed many times on this forum; fortunately, I have located my copy of the movie book now.*  

HODS was certainly effective on the big screen at the Vista Theater ... but reading about those deleted scenes and scenes that were never shot shows how much better the movie could have been. To take just one example - the scene where Barnabas and Julia begin to develop a relationship, which was never shot. That would have gone a long way to the jarring moment when Stokes announces to Julia "you're in love with him." So many things needed to be established or fleshed out that weren't.

A longer costume scene (and some mention of it beforehand, unless I missed it), would have been welcome. I do think children would have been out of place at an adult cocktail/costume event, and it would have looked odd to see Denise Nickerson there. But I guess if David was originally intended to be present, in costume, then I suppose he could have had a friend of his own age as a guest; so who knows - maybe Ms. Nickerson was planned for the scene.

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* If I remember correctly, lost footage for NODS was found after the publication of the "Dark Shadows Movie Book."

Oh, yes - I was in line for about 70 minutes and wishing I hadn't worn a t-shirt under my shirt since it was in the 90s (or, if the L.A. Times article is correct, in the 100s), but I had anticipated air conditioning in the theater. After already being worn out by doing a lot of running in airport terminals the day before, I didn't make it to any of Friday's events until afternoon.  And now I seem to be paying with a cold which I probably picked up on the flight home (unless anyone else has come down with this?).

I forgot to mention something about the "Night of Dark Shadows" screening, which doesn't really belong in this thread, but it's already there - and that is, the print of the film was completely square - no widescreen or letterbox!

Thanks for the comments about "Seizure." I hope I'll get the chance to see it sometime. The Bergman film it reminded me of is actually "Hour of the Wolf", not "Night of the Wolf." Either way, it doesn't sound like a Bergman film ...