To promote the October release of Carrie, Chloe Morets will be at the New York Comic Con over the weekend of October 10-13. The con is a very popular event and tickets may only be available on the secondary market.
Photo ups with Chloe will set you back $90.00. Think that's pricey? It's downright cheap compared to the $445.00 it costs to have you picture taken with Sylvester Stallone.

Denise Nickerson and her fellow Willy Wonka kids will be appearingat Chiller Theatre in Parsippany, New Jersey next month
It runs from October 25 through October 27.

chillertheatre.com

On page 69 of the September 16th issue of Soap Opera Digest,  there's a picture of DC from War and Remembrance with cast members Barry Bostwick, Hart Bochner and Kin Shriner. Be advised that DC is the only one who appears shirtless.

The February 2013 has some pretty good interviews with Barbara Steele and Jessica Chastain.

Steele's is a career overview, from her Italian films to her current project, The Butterfly Room. She admits to having ambiguous feelings about doing the autograph circuit but does them for a practical reason: no pension. Being a producer was not her cup of tea but she managed to get along quite well with DC. According to Barbara, they had similar temperaments and she just wasn't scared of him.

She would have liked the 1991 Julia to have been written differently but DC didn't go with it. She admits to liking the Depp film but not "the frumpy light" that Julia was portrayed in.

Jessica Chastain outs herself as one of us. She's a DS fan and loved playing Carolyn Stoddard. She said that she understands why people love the show so much and is flattered, if a bit surprised, that people still ask her about it.

Earlier this fall, I attended Daytime Stars and Strikes, a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. It was held at the Bowlmor Lanes in Times Square. Many actors from Guiding Light and One Life to Live came to bowl and mix with the fans. Like the DS Festival, they had a charity auction. One of the prizes was a photo in a future issue of ABC Soaps in Depth. And I won! As part of the prize, I got to select two actors to be in the picture with me. I chose Gina Tognoni and Ilene Kristen. Gina won two Emmy Awards for her work on Guiding Light. Ilene is a showbiz veteran and was of the original cast of Grease. They are both great ladies.

This is a bi-weekly publication and should be on sale until Christmas. The picture of me is on page 23.

Eva Green's official website, www.evagreenweb.com, has an enormous selection of photos from the movie. I don't think I've seen this many pictures in one place before. Some are familiar but a lot of them were new to me. Screen captures, promotional shots, posters and more. All about Eva, of course. But that's certainly not a bad thing.

Marie Wallace will be appearing in a production of The Last Romance at the Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury, Connecticut next month. It is a romantic comedy, written by Joe DiPietro. He is best known for I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change.

The play runs for a month, from mid October till around Veterans Day. Tickets were $39.00, with a small handling fee. For further information, the theatre's website is sevenangelstheatre.org

The first issue of the Dark Shadows/Vampirella crossover is out. Big surprise: it actually came out reasonably on time. Too bad that Marc Andreyko is not on the regular book, as this is a decent story. Somewhat densely plotted but intriguing. The lead villainess is an especially nasty vampire from the middle ages, who survives into the Victoria era, where she enslaves Jack the Ripper.

The action shifts to the present where the baddies have done something nasty to the descendant of Crystal Cabot, who had been one of Barnabas' early victims. Once the news reaches Collinsport, that's enough to send Barnabas and Quentin to NYC to investigate. Vampirella is already on the job.

The first issue is intriguing enough to make me want to see where this is headed. Barnabas and Vampirella do not meet until the final panel but it looks like this could be an interesting teamup. Both are flawed heroes, with very different personalities and methods.

Writing a good comic book is a skill all its own. Andreyko has come up with a promising story with decent dialogue. The artwork is superior to anything the monthly book has had so far.

It's a decent book. I'll be interested to see where issue #2 goes.