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Number 193. April 19, 2009.

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Hello, Dark Shadows Fan,

ShadowGram (SG), The Official Newsletter & News Source for Dark Shadows (DS), announces the following breaking news.

**** JONATHAN FRID SHARES HIS LATEST NEWS WITH SG (SG Exclusive)

Moonshine?

Jonathan Frid writes to advise me that he is busy preparing new readings for the DS Festival in Newark, particularly Jack Finney's intriguing story: "The Third Level."

Jonathan will again be staging a silent auction of memorabilia, including scrapbooks and one-of-a-kind scripts, and signing items for the winning bidders.

If you visit Jonathan's website at www.jonathanfrid.com, you can help determine what DS episodes Jonathan will screen and comment on in Newark (go to Festivals to join the Game).

More news will follow from Canada as the Festival approaches.

--- SG reminds fans that the 2009 DS Festival convention is Aug. 14-16 at the Marriott Newark Airport Renaissance Hotel, 100 Spring St., Elizabeth, NJ 07021. 908-436-4600.

SG Update #192 and the latest print issue SG #114 had more information about guests, planned programming, hotel location, and other details.

--- SG also encourages fans to visit Jonathan's website to enjoy all its sections offering Jonathan's candid and sharp observations on – almost anything and everything – as well as his career, Shakespeare, history, acting, literature, and, yes, Barnabas Collins and "Dark Shadows" too.

His official website: www.jonathanfrid.com

When you visit his site, please suggest "your five most favourite scenes taken from episodes." The "ten most popular" will be shown on the big screen at the Festival with Jonathan's comments" for the entire audience to watch. All suggestions must be submitted by June 1, 2009.

On the site, Jonathan also has a range of personal photos, interesting essays, available autographed pictures, and much more.

*** JONATHAN FRID LOOKS BACK AT THE DS FESTIVAL – BURBANK, CA – JULY 2008 (SG Exclusive)

SG #114 print issue featured Jonathan's own thoughts about the most recent Fest convention: Excerpt: "I keep reminding myself of the three recent and coming happy years involving my planning and presence at Dark Shadows festivals.... For this coming Festival next August I hope to participate in the events with other actors. " He comments on his feelings as he prepared for the Burbank event and for his previous Fest appearances (2006 and 2007). He also considers the coming Fest this summer...and he has plans....

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The site presently is under construction, but please visit often. As always, SG welcomes your pictures of the DS personnel, media references to DS, and more.

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How Trask could pull the wool down over Judith's eyes with simple religion reminds me of "The Night of the Hunter" (with Judith portraying Willa Harper, of course!)

I don't recall anyone making that analogy before, but I think it's wonderful.  If only Rachel Drummond had been half as effective at protecting the children (a boy and a girl, right?) from the fake preacher as Rachel Cooper.

I had to laugh when Quentin said he'd just kill Magda.  His solution to all this problems with women.

Do you think he might've had a chance to escape the curse if he'd thought to kill Magda before the last nightfall?  Maybe Q's real problem is bad timing.

Dog is on the list.  (I'm pretty sure it was one of my answers.  )

From the Caption This Rules:

Please remember not to contribute captions in scene form (setup/postscript).

Thanks

Thank you for the links!  jimbo, yours showed up right while I was stumbling about trying to find the durn thing.

I can't say I agree that SH "lost his perspective," but I also don't accept that advanced age is ever an excuse to spill your co-workers' secrets.  Being rude or gossipy is a choice that anybody can make at any age, and being older doesn't make it okay.  And I think it's quite obvious in the interview that his faculties are intact.  It's one thing to gain the maturity to stop caring about what other people think, but this is not the same thing as not caring whom you hurt when you choose to speak frankly in an interview.  Of course he has a right to tell secrets if that's his choice, but age is not the issue there.  Just MY 2 cents.

Dorcas and Dirk should get together.  And raise a little Dork of their own.

"Righteous cruelty" ... isn't that an oxymoron?

Collinwood seems to have a mind of its own here, what with its front doors refusing to close and the phone appearing on the foyer table as soon as it's needed for an emergency.

Why was Rachel so surprised to hear Trask's voice on the phone?  I can't imagine who else would be looking for her.  It's not like they had telemarketers in 1897.  And why take the call in the first place if she thought nobody knew she was there?  (Like Beth before, Rachel refers to her former employers here by their first names instead of Mr. Edward and Miss Judith.)

The presence in the woods made the sound of human footsteps, so perhaps that's why Rachel didn't consider it might be an animal.

Barnabas is obsessively interested in the welfare of Quentin, whose otherwise healthy wife recently dropped dead, and she happened to be the beloved sister-in-law of his housemates who happen to be gypsies, and said gypsies are terribly grief-stricken, so you'd think Barn would be all over it, right?  But no, he's entertaining Edward, and whom do you suppose did the cooking for THAT untimely little dinner party?

Maybe I should think again about trying to do this cold without checking any reference materials.

There's a link to the corresponding Robservation in the main topic for each ep. 

Ripped Shirt alert 

Nipple alert! 

Ha, I meant shouldn't she be CT for Charity Trask?

Depp's SBSP character, surf legend Jack Kahuna Laguna, debuts today in "SpongeBob vs. the Big One."  It can be seen at 8 p.m. Eastern/Pacific (7 p.m. Central) on Nickolodeon, on www.nick.com, and on DVD.  Enjoy!