Dark Passages by Kathryn Leigh Scott

[Mysterious Benefactor]

'Dark Shadows' Star Pens Her Own Vampire Tale

[Mysterious Benefactor]

... & A Dark Shadows Star is Reborn

[Midnite]

What burns Kathryn the most is that Gloria is still bad mouthing the bunnies. “I’m in warrior mode,” she told me, “because this 46 year-old rant is tiresome.” Ms. Steinem, I think you’ve met your match.

I'm sorry, but that's laughable.  I only just started DP, but I'll be shocked if I find anything less than a sugar-coated treatment of her character's bunny days.

[David]

I don't doubt for a fact that issues of sexism are real: there's a strong need to protect Roe V Wade, to support Planned Parenthood, and to protect women's rights in the workplace.

But I'm also finding it hard to believe that working at the Playboy Club was as horrible as Steinem claims.

[Midnite]

Being told how to look, dress, walk, stand, sit, behave, and converse as a condition of employment-- pretty much every moment at work micromanaged-- not all that empowering.

Jenna Dewan (Willie's sister Sophia, the 2004 pilot's version of Mrs. Johnson), btw, plays a bunny in the upcoming series.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Jenna Dewan (Willie's sister Sophia, the 2004
pilot's version of Mrs. Johnson), btw, plays a bunny in the upcoming series.

I didn't realize that. Thanks for the info. 

[borgosi]

Being told how to look, dress, walk, stand, sit, behave and converse! That's sounds like being in the Army. At least they can't draft you anymore, but I guess the Playboy club never could and the Playboy Club, as far as I know, never claimed to empower women.

Truth is we all make our choices. Hooters is no different than the Playboy Club and those girls are empowed by their paycheck not by their employer or the people they serve.

[borgosi]

Just wanted to add that I don't go to Hooters and wouldn't go to the Playboy Club. I'm not a fan but they couldn't do would they do/did if women weren't will to take the job. They took/take jobs like that because the money enables them to go where they wanna go, to do what they wanna do. If they are already empowered, if they all it really doesn't matter what kind of job they have because no job can empower you.

[Midnite]

the Playboy Club, as far as I know, never claimed to empower women.

KLS' "Bunny Years" has, as have Hefner and execs for the new TV series.  But unfortunately, we've gone way off topic.

[loril54]

Many jobs are based on how you look. Look at actors and actresses, even in the job market for regular jobs.

One person said to me the other day, hiring is discrimination, you make choices. Everyone have their own bias's, we all have the ability to make decisions.
 

[Uncle Roger]

Finished the book last night, found it to be quite a good read. Part Jacqueline Susann, part Stephen King, part Ds urban legend, part pure fancy--KLS has come up with a winner. Perhaps her best effort yet. Can't wait to see Meg look horns with Damon

[michael c]

my last experience with DS-Star penned fiction(lara parker's abysmal "the salem branch") was not good...

but i'll give this a shot. i plan to attend a book signing in new york that KLS is doing this week. otherwise i'll pick it up at the fest.

as an aside with border's bookstores gone and several major barnes and noble locations closed i wonder how look the in-store author appearance/book signing will remain. it's fast becoming something of a dinosaur.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

We Love Soaps TV finally posted their KLS interview: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Kathryn Leigh Scott Reflects On DARK SHADOWS and Tells Us About Her New Book, "Dark Passages"

Hmmm - don't know where she got the idea that someone had a kinescope copy of Ep #1219, even one that was "in pieces," and from that they were able to put the ep back together? Though at least the fan audio tape really does exist.

And once again she mentions that Frid was seen with his clothes in hangers over his shoulder during the closing credits, even though that incident didn't take place that way. And I don't know if many fans would actually consider that the "most iconic blooper of the whole show" (I can certainly think of many others that come to my mind before that one and that have prompted a lot more fan interest/discussion through the years - in fact, it wasn't even in the running when hundreds of online DS fans voted for their favorite blooper back in '98), but...  

[michael c]

considering that she pretty much earns a living off of her "remembrances" of her time on DS you'd think that KLS might actually invest in the dvds(she could probably get a tax writeoff) so that she could avoid these lapses in accuracy.

the fact that she habitually misremembers the actual turn of events on the series at this point is extremely odd.

[Midnite]

Someone please tell KLS there were NO WIRE HANGERS EVER! 

Hmm, one can argue that she played five characters, not four, because Maggie Evans Collins is a completely separate character.