Episode #1149

[Mysterious Benefactor]

 

Fill in the blank: Roxanne - "Randall, have you come to play ________, like we used to as children?!"

[MagnusTrask]

the home version of Concentration

[Uncle Roger]

Blue's Clueless

[Mysterious Benefactor]

   Good ones, Magnus and Uncle Roger!! 

Blue's Clueless

Clever!!

[Uncle Roger]

Thanks again! I wonder whose idea it was to use this makeup on vampire Roxanne. She certainly didn't appear that way in 1970. Nor do I recall Megan or Angelique looking quite so skeletal. Even Barnabas used to get by with some kohl eyeliner.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

The most bizarre thing about that blue look is that Roxanne doesn't even look that way on the night she rises and attacks Julia!!

From "#1142/1143: Robservations 10/27/03: Julia in Jeopardy--Bigtime!"

Julia enters Roxanne's crypt and opens her coffin.  Roxanne is gone, however.

Hearing a sound behind her, Julia turns and sees Roxanne standing there, arms raised, fangs bared, homing in to attack her.

Maybe something about Julia's blood didn't agree with her!! 

[Uncle Roger]

Interesting, to say the least. Was Vinnie Loscalzo still doing the makeup then?

[Mysterious Benefactor]

(  No. Dennis Eger is credited for Ep #1149. But the interesting thing is while there's no makeup credit for Ep#1143, a few eps earlier Bert Roth is credited for makeup. So it may be quite possible that Roth did Ep #1143 and that's why there a discrepancy between Roxanne's makeup for Ep #1143 and Ep #1149.)

[Uncle Roger]

Since I had never heard of Bert Roth, I decided to do a little digging. His imdb listing is pretty sparse. It only lists DS. But it seems that he was a major player. He did makeup for James Cagney, Judy Garland, Boris Karloff and Richard Nixon. He did the makeup for 20/20 and Good Morning New York. He even had his own school, The Bert Roth School of Theatrical Makeup.

And, most impressive of all, he was The Director of Makeup at ABC. Who knew there was such a title?

I couldn't find an obituary, so he might still be with us.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

(  How interesting! Who knew? And all of that definitely deserves to be known!!)

[Uncle Roger]

How odd that nothing about this gentleman appears in any of the DS chronicles published so far.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

(  I had the same thought!!)

[Uncle Roger]

Someone didn't do their research properly, I guess. Yes, the trail is quite cold at this point but if you and I can find these things in a Google search, it can't be all that difficult.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Someone didn't do their research properly, I guess.

(Considering all the errors in the books, when do they?!  )

[Uncle Roger]

If research was done at all.