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Cast Member...?
« on: May 01, 2015, 05:46:33 PM »
While watching 1968....where Amy and David find it.....you know.....it.....they find it.....it....!!!!


Anywho, someone mentions Tom Jennings; I had to think....there was a character Tom Jennings, right?

Could someone post a pic & give me a little background, or, send me anti-whacko drugs?

Thanks

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Re: Cast Member...?
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2015, 06:08:52 PM »
Does this jog your memory:

Tom - "Juuullliiia!"
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« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2015, 02:57:31 AM »
Uh, sorry MB, that just makes me think of Adam.

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« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2015, 07:06:19 AM »
Tom was the brother (most say twin, but some dispute that part) of Chris Jennings and also played by Don Briscoe.  MB's reference was to when Tom had become a vampire and bit Julia.  That was his way of calling her.
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« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2015, 01:22:54 PM »
The pills should arrive today, take two at bedtime and call me in the morning.  [snow_kiss] [snow_wink]
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« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2015, 05:18:57 PM »
Josette, thank you!

dom..........lolololol!

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I don't remember Julia getting bit....
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« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2015, 05:31:37 PM »
From Ep #566:

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« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2015, 07:17:03 PM »
Tom had the biggest, thickest fangs of any vampire in Collinsport.

And as Edith Ann used to say, That's the truth.

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« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2015, 07:32:34 PM »
Yes, who can forget this shot:



[vampsmiley] [vampsmiley] [vampsmiley] [vampsmiley] [vampsmiley]
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Re: Cast Member...?
« Reply #9 on: May 03, 2015, 10:18:08 PM »
Quote from: Gothick on May 03, 2015, 07:17:03 PM
Tom had the biggest, thickest fangs of any vampire in Collinsport.

And he had the most animalistic qualities of any vampire...  He was a true predator.  Must run in the family.
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« Reply #10 on: May 04, 2015, 08:25:51 PM »
Quote from: Gothick on May 03, 2015, 07:17:03 PM
Tom had the biggest, thickest fangs of any vampire in Collinsport.

Size isn't everything...

BTW, as hot as Briscoe was, I think he gave absolutely the most overwrought vampire portrayal on DS.
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« Reply #11 on: May 05, 2015, 12:43:56 AM »
Mr. Jennings was certainly easy on the eyes (Julia seemed to enjoy it)...


but comparing this performance to Frid's early work on the series is like night and day. the broad, campy, cartoonish DS 'style' was in full swing by this point in 1968. it bore little resemblance to the subtlety Frid brought to the vampire portrayal.
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« Reply #12 on: May 05, 2015, 12:51:23 AM »
There's an interview with Frid (I think in Baltimore's City Paper from the 1980s, possibly during the ARSENIC & OLD LACE tour) where he refers to Briscoe's Tom Jennings performance--without naming Briscoe--as "nearly pornographic," or words to that effect.  I wonder if he was thinking of the scene where Jennings closes in on a flailing Betsy Durkin with pop-eyed, tongue-twirling relish.

I personally blame whoever was directing at that time--Henry Kaplan always wanted "more" from the actors. Nobody ever thought these would be seen again after the single broadcast so sometimes the actors just "went with it."

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« Reply #13 on: May 05, 2015, 01:53:08 AM »
i've only been able to get through ms. durkin's ultra-brief tenure on the series once...

i found those weeks (the death throes of the 'adam' plot) to be almost unwatchable.  [snow_sick2]


the show regained it's footing with the start of the quentin storyline. a great old fashioned haunting.
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Re: Cast Member...?
« Reply #14 on: May 05, 2015, 02:57:02 AM »
I thought Tom was low-key compared to Dirk Wilkins.

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