Q is for "The Quinns," a TV movie with Blair Brown and also Virginia Vestoff in one of her last roles.

Happy Birthday!

P is for King Johnny's purple robe.

nostalgia can bring with it a rosy glow...

in her interviews on the new dvd collections alexandra speaks in glowing tones of how unique and creative dark shadows was.she also speaks very highly of her co-stars.joan bennett like a "second mother".nancy barrett a bridesmaid at her wedding.louis edmonds a "drawing room comedy".very high praise for jonathan frid and john karlen and mitch ryan and thayer david and clarice blackburn.after she left the series she speaks of missing the "camaraderie".

so it's too bad that(roger davis aside)she couldn't have found in that a way to make her time on the show a more positive experience for herself at the time.

Doesn't she also say that a few months into her pregnancy, while still on the show, she was already having a difficult time of it and had to lie down a lot?  I think that would make combing your hair and having your eyes made up a low priority, regardless of how you feel about your job.  Anyway, I hope Lara Parker's comments didn't color your view of Alexandra too much; the latter was on the series for nearly a year and a half before the former participated in a single taping, and that's a long time of enduring a grueling schedule and an environment that's high pressure.  But was the show really "beneath her" (LP's words)?  Perhaps, though it doesn't sound that way to me when I listen to Alexandra talk about her time on the series.  She admits that she found fulfillment in motherhood, but so what?  When a woman gives up her career to stay home with her baby, I think of it as merely a choice (that, unfortunately, not everyone has the financial means to make) and I don't assume it means the woman looked down on her job, though some see it that way, even today.  

I wonder if LP would still say those things about her now, especially after watching her speak glowingly about her [important] projects behind the camera.
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N is for Alec Newman, the most recent Barnabas Collins.

I'm not sure it's so much bitterness as bewilderment as to why someone would want off a very popular soap.  Actors want to work and certainly many actors enjoy fame if they achieve it.

Nancy, I wouldn't call it bewilderment because she explains her unhappiness.  Sorry, it's hard to discuss comments that aren't on the board.  I should probably look them up and post them.

 

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