I read Craig Hamrick's biography of Louis Edmonds last week, and was shocked to learn that Carol Burnett asked to be briefly written into All My Children in 1983. She never did anything of the sort for Dark Shadows! I'm sure she could have done a nice job as Evan Handley's extravagant wife - assuming that Zsa Zsa Gabor didn't beat her out in auditions. Which brings me to the reason for my post: whom would we like to have seen playing all these uncast roles? And shouldn't there have been a series of celebrity cameos for Barnabas's dockside victims? Not to mention a special guest appearance by Elsie the Cow.
Wow, there are absolutely
so many actresses (or actors?) who could have portrayed Barnabas' seemingly-innumerable dockside victims! How about such current-day, acting "legends" as:
Paris Hilton
Carmen Electra
Janene Garafolo (sp?)
Jennifer Lopez
Demi Moore-Kutcher (?)
Courtney Love
Star Jones
Jenny McCarthy
Jodi Sweetin (from, I believe, "Full House")
Anna Nicole Smith
Yasmeen Bleeth (sp? From the "timeless" and "immortal" crime series, "Nash Bridges")
Joy Behar
Mariah Carey
Katie Couric (a/ka/ "THE Princess of Perkiness!")
As to a current day male actor, who could have portrayed a short-lived D.S. character, how about, as that clueless, almost completely vacuous pretty-boy-creation of the renowned/magically-talented artist, Mr. Charles Delaware Tate, the equally clueless, vacuous, and, I might add, completely self-absorbed "star" of "
classic" Sci-Fi Channel "original" movies, the one-and-only, Mr. Richard Grieco!?!
Bob the Bartender, President of the Sonny Tufts
AND Zasu Pitts Fan Clubs!