and since this scene was cut in its entirety, one thing the audience as it stands never comprehends is why the sound of fragmentary piano music keeps happening whenever Quentin starts to experience one of his mysterious flashback episodes.

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Oh wow, the piano scene starts today.  Fab.  "Laura my darling, you need to SIT THE F&&& DOWN, beey*tch." LOL

I've given up hope of ever seeing this and the séance scene restored.  I am glad Darren was able to salvage the lost elements even if the rights owners don't allow the rest of us to enjoy the material.

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that big confrontation scene with Roger and Mags was so well shot.  I remember the camera moving maybe a full 360 degrees around them.  I don't remember any other time when this was done. It made the scene very dramatic and horrifying.

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A friend just posted a link for a new PD trailer that is on Youtube on a channel Showtime runs for the series.  It's Eva Green talking about what's going on with Vanessa in the new season.  There are spoilers, of course, including some glimpses of Dr. Seward.  The character made me think of one of Grayson's roles.

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Fans,

Today a friend and I took a jaunt to Salem, Mass.  It was a brief trip but we stopped in Harrison's, a huge comic book store which is one of the very few in the area with a good selection of horror film fan mags available.  Anyhow, I was waiting for my friend to pay for his purchases and happened to see what I initially thought was a large Barnabas Collins action figure.  It turned out to be the Penguin from a TV series called Gotham which I think depicts the childhood life of Bruce Wayne.

I haven't seen the series (I think it was canceled sometime ago?), but the figure was tall, in a dark vaguely Edwardian looking suit, with dark pointy bangs and a face whose modeling sort of suggested Jonathan Frid.  In fact, he looked more like Frid than some of the official DS merchandise I have seen does.  He was holding an umbrella with the handle up and at first, I had to do a double-take because I thought I was seeing a wolf's-head cane!

It might have been just my imagination, but it made enough of an impression on me to write about it here.

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The re-pressing on purple vinyl does look quite cool:

http://www.collinsporthistoricalsociety.com/2016/03/your-first-look-at-new-dark-shadows.html

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Today's photo makes me inclined to think that Quentin is hoping Carlotta will "help" him with more than just "finding a good room."  LOL!

Selby and Grayson always had such great chem together.  I was going through some old files last week and found some notes about how much he adored her IRL.

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