That's a fascinating story, Murph.  My Mom banned DS after she saw an episode with me when we were taking one of our trips in this trailer my Dad would hitch to the back of the car.  The trailer was called a "Frolic" and it had all these typical late Sixties fittings with a lot of fabrics never found in nature.  Anyway on one of the trips we took a little black and white TV set and I was able to watch DS.  It was during 1897 and it was the episode where Judith is attacked by the werewolf and Beth saves her because she has the pentagram and knows how to use it.  My Mom was shocked which seems funny in retrospect, but Mom hates violent films and shows.  So she told me I had to stop watching it.  For some months I watched in secret.  DS was responsible for my first act of defiance against parental authority.  I still get a giggle out of that.  After some time had passed, she no longer cared whether I watched it or not because she was too busy with her job and other things.

G.

This site has more props from the Burton/Depp film for sale:

http://www.propstore.com/movie/dark-shadows/

Angelique's conjure doll is shown on a feature about the sale and I thought that had been sold quite some time ago.  I have no idea how legitimate all of this is.

G.

Do you have kids, or grandkids?  Ask one of them to help.

Good luck!

G.

Happy Birthday to a brilliant writer with an incisive, delicious wit.

G.

Somewhere last year on the announcements board I posted an item, I think from Billy Masters, about the problems Kate was having getting going on the book.  But 2020 is extreme by any standards.  One wonders if that was a typo.

Reportedly, when Mary Wilson of the Supremes started work on her own memoirs, she had to undergo hypnotherapy to help surface buried memories.  When she sat down to write about her life in the Sixties, she drew a complete blank.

G.

Wow.  I remember messages like that from around 17 years ago.  Had no idea anyone was still dealing with the issue.

G.

A friend posted a "teaser trailer" for the new season over the holidays.  Maybe tonight I'll watch it again.  Quite short.

Worth noting is that Helen McCrory, who will return as Madame Kali in the new season, is starring in THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2 from the revived Hammer studios.  It was released to theatres last Thursday.

G.

I was thinking about bathrooms at Collinwood for some reason today and I realized that in hoDS, there is a scene where Carolyn has just come out of a bathroom, presumably one equipped with a shower, if I recall correctly.

Granted, the bathroom wasn't actually SHOWN.

G.