I wonder if and festival attendees and guests still in Brooklyn or fans who live on the east coast felt the big earthquake. I was in my car at the time driving on the Garden State Parkway between Clark and Woodbridge NJ (i think) and did not feel anything.

Dan Curtis's movie Our Fathers on the Boston Priest Sex Abuse scandal on Universal HD now.

I guess Denise Nickerson had to cancel she would have been part of the DS Kids panel with Sharon and Kathy I guess. I noticed a few days ago her name was gone from the festival web site. I was looking forward to seeing her again for the first times since 04.

Still no John Karlen I hope he's feeling ok.

SG reports that Jonathan Frid, Lara Parker, David Selby, and Kathryn Leigh Scott flew to England in late June to film brief cameos in the new DS motion picture. They inform SG that it was a wonderful experience and that the movie cast and crew were extremely enthusiastic and gracious. They spent 3 days at Pinewood Studios, where filming began in May and continues into the fall.

I wish Burton would have shown the same class to Denise Nickerson and the cast of Original Willy Wonka when filming Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Instead he badmouthed the original move for the liberties it took with Dahl's book (i.e. Slugworth)me mile taking his own liberties (i.e. Wonka's Dentist Dad).

The most annoying thing was that much of that "Ivory tower" programing already airing on WNET in NYC and WHYY in Philly and there was no need for it to be repeated on NJN. NJN should have stuck with programing like Dark Shadows, Uncle Floyd and Doctor Who Instead we got re-airings of episodes Nova, Sesame Street and Frontline that had aired of WNET and WHYY a few a hours or a few days earlier.

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For $80 they should give us the opportunity to order steak instead of chicken. But i am sure it's just the same old chicken for all.