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Calendar Events / Announcements '16 II / Re: My Tarrytown experience
« on: July 01, 2016, 02:41:38 PM »
Gerard, the Festival should hire you to organize that cruise!  In addition to your salary and a free stateroom, you could tell them they need to give you a DVD of the 2004 pilot as part of the deal.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '16 II / Re: My Tarrytown experience
« on: June 30, 2016, 05:38:29 PM »
Did KLS turn, tilt her head up at a sharp angle, and inform the querulous lackey, "*I* am the Mistress of Collinwood!  NEVAH forget that!"

That's how Joan would have handled it.

Great story!

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '16 II / Re: My Tarrytown experience
« on: June 30, 2016, 04:59:11 PM »
I have no idea what the typical cruise costs, so can't compare. 

There was widespread speculation that this year's Festival would be the end of the road for that type of event.  I wonder whether a formal announcement regarding this will be made, or if the Festival committee will simply let it drop.

It sounds as if all in all, it was a very nice weekend for everyone, so it is good that it is going out on a high note, if this is indeed the grand finale.  Too bad people were turned away because the venue couldn't accommodate larger numbers.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '16 II / Re: My Tarrytown experience
« on: June 30, 2016, 03:32:41 PM »
The Festival's infamous "line fetish" continues.

It sounds as if they allowed fan dealers and at least some other vendors this year.  I remember reading at the last T-town event only MPI was allowed (if I'm recalling that correctly).

BTW there was a post on FaceBeast a day or two ago about a 2017 DS cruise.  I imagine the details will be in the next Shadowgram post.

G.

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Special thanks for today's quote.  I have no memory of these lines at all (which is hardly surprising given other lapsus memoriae I have mentioned).  Interesting to learn what Laura's fate was.  "Laura my darling" paid a bitter price for that funeral laughter.

G.

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Can't say I'm all that interested unless something bizarre happened such as hiring Bill Mumy to write some of the scripts.  LIS was even more rooted in Sixties pop culture than was DS, if that's possible.  I thought the 1990s LIS movie was simply dreadful because of the need to make it "dark" and more up-to-date. 

Sci-fi has changed so much since that time.  Of course with all the Star Wars mania maybe they figure they can cash in by doing a clone of that and calling it LIS.  Throw in a few superheroes  and they could sell some tix.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '16 II / Re: My Tarrytown experience
« on: June 30, 2016, 01:05:54 AM »
Inefficiency? at a Shadows event?

I simply refuse to believe it!  (I'm sure either Barnabas or Julia said that line more than once)

G

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Calendar Events / Announcements '16 II / Re: Daughters of Darkness
« on: June 29, 2016, 07:57:50 PM »
It's an interesting remark because I recall Frid saying in interviews (this is going back to when the show was still on) that he would often think of Shakespeare, particularly Richard III, when he was playing Barnabas.

I don't know if Karlen referred to that because JF used to discuss this with him.  They must have spent a lot of time running lines together given all the scenes they had one on one.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '16 II / Re: Daughters of Darkness
« on: June 29, 2016, 07:00:57 PM »
Great interview. But I can see why fans thought he was basically equating DS with "garbage."

G.

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A roughly 8 minute "in remembrance" slideshow that was shown, with some very rare photos of some of the cast, crew, writers etc.--several I had never seen before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6j3t9nUd_U

The only one I didn't know as John Devoe, if I'm even recalling his name properly.

Fans applaud for each photo.  The applause and shouts, cheers, etc. for some are really rather.... I got verklaempt!

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '16 II / Re: My Tarrytown experience
« on: June 28, 2016, 02:28:33 AM »
To meet the Mysterious One is a privilege vouchsafed to few (paraphrasing a line from one of my all time favorite films, HORROR HOTEL from 1960).

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '16 I / Re: Penny Dreadful
« on: June 28, 2016, 01:40:08 AM »
A major plot strand in Season 1 was dropped abruptly and apparently never resumed.  It was kind of reminiscent of all the stuff about Gerard's pirate ship, the Java Queen, and her matey zombie crew--a major plot point in Summer 1970 that was practically nonexistent once they started with 1840.

Of the regulars, I don't think they ever bothered to integrate Dorian Gray at all into the plotline.  Too bad because Reeve Carney is really very good and was a screen presence who grew on me (initially, I just couldn't accept him as Oscar Wilde's Dorian, but this version of the character had his own groove going on).

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '16 II / Re: My Tarrytown experience
« on: June 28, 2016, 01:35:36 AM »
It sounds really wonderful.  That's awesome that Nancy had such a great time and that John Karlen was able to participate so much.

Thanks for the write-up, Uncle Roger.  I've met Midnite several times and she's a lovely, gracious lady.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '16 I / Re: Penny Dreadful
« on: June 27, 2016, 02:28:54 AM »
My perception, for what it's worth, is that a number of people, starting with John Logan, the writer/creator of PD, had other projects to move onto.  Logan had mentioned in interviews during the first year that he had planned a 3 year arc.  In a couple of interviews that I have read since the finale was broadcast, he said that during the course of working on season 3, it had become clear to him that the end of the arc was also going to be the end of the series.  Apparently the principal players involved, including Eva, agreed.

Pretty much the same thing with the "cancellation" of DS although it's never been directly stated that Dan Curtis was the one who ultimately made the decision to pull the plug so he could direct NoDS and then move onto other things.  That is the only explanation that fits the chronology and the other pieces of info that have become available over the years. He certainly had a full plate as soon as the series ended and he pretty much kept gone right on for decades afterwards.

G.

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