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somebody...screen grab of ??Gary Cole??

You can go to tvtome.com and type the name for a site search.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '04 I / Re:Congrats To Us!
« on: April 07, 2004, 12:57:16 AM »
WOO HOO!

 [aprvy]

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Calendar Events / Announcements '04 I / Re:Waaay OT-Who watches OLTL?
« on: April 06, 2004, 09:11:30 PM »
Hi!

She presided over a custody hearing and gave Antonio joint custody of his daughter, but that's all I remember her doing.  (The child's mother later died.)  Does anybody else recall whether that judge returned?

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Calendar Events / Announcements '04 I / Re:Waaay OT-Who watches OLTL?
« on: April 06, 2004, 05:23:33 AM »
I'm taking a break from watching, but I remember her being on it last year.  Sorry that I can't tell you if she returned for any of the more recent storylines.

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If she's to play a victim, can Sophia possibly be any more annoying than... was Gloria the character's name?  After watching the '91 series, I'm surprised I wasn't haunted by her "Can't you wait until we get into the car?" in my dreams, ugh.

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Current Talk '24 I / Re:WB ORDERS FILMING OF NEW DS PILOT
« on: April 05, 2004, 07:06:26 AM »
Bio and photo of dancer Jenna Dewan:
http://www.showstopperonline.com/where/where_3.html

(Scroll to 4th entry)


Official site:
www.jennadewanonline.com

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Current Talk '24 I / Re:WB ORDERS FILMING OF NEW DS PILOT
« on: April 05, 2004, 06:22:42 AM »
ShadowGram (SG) announces the following breaking news for Dark Shadows (DS).

--- 2004 DARK SHADOWS PILOT IN PRODUCTION
The highly-anticipated new 1-hour DS pilot for the WB Network began filming April 2 in the Los Angeles area. This ShadowGram Online Updates List and SG print issues have detailed this project as it developed and will continue to do so.

In addition to those cast members previously announced on this List are new performers: Blair Brown (Elizabeth), Jason Shaw (Joe Haskell), Jenna Dewan (Sophia - new character), and Alexis Thorpe (Kelly Greer - new character). The performers to play Dr. Julia Hoffman and Sheriff George Patterson will be confirmed in the next week or two.

Following are selected acting credits for the new DS performers:

Blair Brown - TV: The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, Feds, The White Oaks of Jalna. Film: Dogville, Space Cowboys, Random Hearts, Stealing Home, Continental Divide, Altered States, One Trick Pony, The Paper Chase.

Jason Shaw - TV: E! Entertainment Television correspondent (Fashion TV). Film: Save Me A Seat. Plus many television commercials and professional modeling.

Jenna Dewan - TV: Boston Public. Film: The Hot Chick, Hip Hopera: Carmen.

Alexis Thorpe - TV: Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless. Film: American Wedding, Rocky & Bullwinkle, The Forsaken, Pretty Cool.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '04 I / Re:Blair Brown / Dogville
« on: April 05, 2004, 03:41:37 AM »
Lorraine,

Your PM and avatar are too funny!

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Stuart,

It's of course not SciFi, but the "Black Books" that inspired your personal messages (and avatars) looks darn funny.

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Thanks to MB's excellent tutoring, videos of Marley Shelton's scenes in the May 31 episode of Karen Sisco are now available on the "WB DS Actors" board.  As with the other vids,  the number of clips available to you depends on your current forum status.  Newbies and Guests are able to see a 160X120 clip of Marley's first appearance in the ep but also where, unfortunately, her face isn't shown, whereas Senior members and above will have 5 320X240 videos available to them, with Full and Junior members falling between with 2 and 3 respectively.

When I made the vids I neglected to allow them to play on older versions of RealPlayer, so viewers will probably need to upgrade their RP version if they haven't already done so.  I'm very sorry for that, but it was my first attempt at creating videos. :-

Marley played a bank robber before in the movie "Sugar and Spice".  On Karen Sisco, Tweety, er, Molly becomes sympathetic in the 2nd clip (available to all members except newbies); however, I'm not wild about her acting in this episode.  Would love to hear what you think after you've watched.

Once again, your patience is required while the connection is made to the server and the video clip is dl'd, and how long it takes will depend on your individual Internet connection speed.

Enjoy!



[9251]  <---- Midnite jumps for joy that she managed it at all and is grateful for MB's patience and guidance

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Current Talk '24 I / Re:WB ORDERS FILMING OF NEW DS PILOT
« on: April 04, 2004, 08:30:51 PM »
Personal Demons end

No. 4  (Episode 7)
Lagos

     Lagos was a wonderful, wonderful demon, but the way his scenes ended up being shot, his hair swings in front of his face the whole time, so the audience never really gets to see him.  We had used this sort of dog makeup pattern that was all brown and tan with black spots all over the face.  The teeth were beautifully articulated to mesh together realistically, we had an amazing wig made by expert Erwin Kupitz that snapped into the fiberglass head piece with these big, curling horns on the side, and the monster had violet lenses.  It took five hours to get this man into this makeup and you never saw him!  Not being able to see him on-screen turned out to be a big disappointment for the makeup department, because the face was really interesting.  I'm happy that we have photographs and pictures to show, but it's not quite the same as having it on the screen.  Still, Lagos is one of my favorite demons.

No. 5  (Episode 11)
Gingerbread Demon

McIntosh checks Roger Morrissey as the Gingerbread demon.
     The Hansel and Gretel demon from "Gingerbread" was a departure from what our demons generally look like.  The guy who played the part, of course, was very, very tall--he was huge.  There was a lot of body work that had to be done on him, so to apply his makeup, we ended up building a sawhorse platform that allowed him to lay down in the trailer.  He was too tall to sit comfortably in the chairs for the work we had to do.  Originally in the designs, it was decided there wasn't going to be enough in the budget to create a chest prosthetic for the creature, so we were originally just doing big, humped shoulders and a face piece, but it was soon clear to me that it wouldn't be enough.  I confided to John Vulich and Michael Pack at Optic Nerve that I really didn't think it was going to work to go from this witchy, gnarled face into a smooth body, so I pushed and pushed and they eventually found a chest made for another show that actually fit the actor.  I just love working with Optic Nerve--we have such a good rapport, I can give them suggestions and they bend over backward to help.  Combining this chest with the hump, face and finger extensions, it was really one of our favorite monsters.  It was interesting to note that when you're on the set churning out monsters each week the crew becomes blase; there's a demon in full makeup wandering around the set, and nobody reacts.  But when this seven-foot tall Hansel and Gretel thing came out of the trailer, everyone posed with him.  We have Polaroids by the thousands.  Every cast and every crew member all wanted their picture taken with him.  He was really fun.

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Current Talk '24 I / Re:WB ORDERS FILMING OF NEW DS PILOT
« on: April 04, 2004, 10:02:04 AM »
Personal Demons cont'd

No. 1  (Episode 14)
Balthazar

     I called him "The Pudding Man," but the 1500-pound demon, Balthazar, is one of the most interesting creatures we've done for a while.  It was very ingenious the way Optic Nerve designed the suit and the cooperation between al the departments to make it work.  The construction department built a tank so that it looked like Balthazar was floating in water, but inside, there was an inner ring of the tank walled-off into a separate section where the actor was actually sitting in a chair, so he was dry.

     Optic Nerve had this huge suit that went over the inside ring, so the actor could put his head through the neck hole, and there were two holes for his hands to go through.  Gloves were put on over the hands, and the cowl and face were blended on to his body.  It was quite a procedure getting him in and getting him out of that thing.  The makeup itself took about four hours, but once we got him into the situation it only took about 20 minutes to glue him in.

     That was far from the end, however, because in the middle of the day, Buffy kills him--electrocutes him--so we then had to go in and paint him while he stayed in the suit and makeup.  We had four makeup artists working at the same time, painting the whole suit and his face to make him look burned.  I was on a plank stretched across the pool at the back with an airbrush laying on my side trying to paint in all the burn marks, which was difficult, but the poor actor had to sit there the whole time.  It was very interesting.  I've never done anything quite like that before.

No. 2
The Master and Vampires Willow and Xander
     We were delighted to do the Master again when the character returned for "The Wish" episode.  The Master has always been one of my favorites.  The makeup is in a number of sections and is fairly complicated to put on.  This episode was also special because, of course, it also allowed Alyson Hannigan and Nick Brendon to break character.  Seeing them in their evil vampire outfits was so much fun; they both relished that completely.  The days were hectic because Nick and Aly had three looks to be changed in and out for the way scens were scheduled:  Good Nick & Aly, Bad Nick & Aly and Vamp Nick and Aly.

No. 3  (Episode 16)
D'Hoffryn

     This is a demon that we had to throw together very quickly.  It turned out we had a scheduling change and he had to work sooner than we all expected.  "Mr. Hodgepodge" became a combination of monsters from five different episodes all thrown together.  His head was rebuilt from the Judge--or what I used to call the Smurf creature from "Surprise" and "Innocence."  That big cowl and headpiece with the horns was then combined with the pointed ears from some she-demons in Xander's episode "The Zeppo."  An aging face piece was added from somewhere--another show Optic Nerve has done--and the hands are from the Rage Monster in the "Jekyll and Hyde" episode.  So he's got a little bit of all our monsters glued on him somewhere, which isn't a common practice.  Usually Optic Nerve custom makes masks and appliances for each character, but this time around, the schedule could only work if the actor worked the first day of filming, not the last.  We were really hard-pressed to do something there.  This is an example of how Optic Nerve and I work together so well.  We are both capable of improvising--something a novice can't usually do.  We work very well together.


[Tired now]

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Current Talk '24 I / Re:WB ORDERS FILMING OF NEW DS PILOT
« on: April 04, 2004, 08:33:19 AM »
Yet another article on McIntosh, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine, Summer 1999--

Personal Demons

BY TODD MCINTOSH WITH MIKE STOKES

     If you've ever wondered why new demons always seem so surly from the moment they show up in Sunnydale, the answer may lie in Todd McIntosh's makeup trailer.  If it isn't bad enough that they're already facing certain death at the hands of the Slayer, villains often experience a bit of a hazing from McIntosh before they are unleashed.  The demonization period for the actors beneath the masks involves spending upwards of four hours having various hideous features glued to their faces.  With those characters who have names deemed by McIntosh as too complicated to keep track of, he temporarily changes their often intimidating monikers to something more descriptive and much less awe-inspiring.  After all, if your name was "The Judge" and your reputation was built by destroying cities and wreaking havoc around the globe, how would you react if you spent four hours in a makeup chair with some Hollywood mortal calling you the Smurf demon?  It'd probably make you want to incinerate everybody in the mall too.

     "After a while, all the demon names blend together," contends Buffy makeup supervisor McIntosh.  "I'm not good with names anyway--Lagos, Kulak, Kralik, Balthazar.....help!"

     When it comes to turning men into monsters through specical makeup effects, McIntosh is the best in the business--and he's got the Emmy Award to prove it.  A longtime fan of the vampire lore, McIntosh seems to be the perfect fit for a show like Buffy.  His career unofficially began when he was just a kid trying to replicate the look of the vampire Barnabas on the T.V. series Dark Shadows (1966-71).  When he was a teenager, he was doing makeup effects for a local theater company in his native Canada, and he began work as the head makeup artist on Buffy in 1997.

     Whatever he chooses to call them, the creatures which McIntosh and Optic Nerve (the show's visual effects house) work together to create each have a distinct look and are uniquely unforgettable.  Having worked on dozens of homicidal uglies and creepy bloodsuckers since he began work on Buffy, and as his third season with the show rolls to a close, we thought we'd ask Todd for his favorite villains and let him explain what goes into making the best of the baddest.  We found that there's never a dull moment for McIntosh, and each week brings a new challenge that winds up being more rewarding than the last.  Here are five demons that stand out in his mind as the most challenging and enjoyable he's done.

(to be continued ;))

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Calendar Events / Announcements '04 I / Re:Chris Pennock in Hamlet
« on: April 04, 2004, 01:35:20 AM »
[lol2]

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