All I will say is that's one list I find impossible to take seriously.

In general I detest lists... even for the typical fluff featurette that clutters today's interweb media, however, this one is really low on substance.

G.

That's a great list, Bob.  I have barely ever seen more than a few minutes here and there of DOBIE GILLIS, but Chatsworth sounds like a fun character.

I always loved seen Mrs. Drysdale do her thing back when I watched Bev Hillbillies.  I loved those funny hats she wore and the white gloves. 

Roger Collins IS the star (next to do the Divine Miss Joan Bennett, of course, as Liz) of the first 9 months of DS.  I'm really looking forward to sitting down with the 1966 episodes again one of these days just to enjoy all of Roger's snide, sneering, vitriolic comments (and, of course, those moments when the facade cracks because of the latest threat from Burke).

G.

A friend sent me this video, the product of Fred Schneider (of the B-52s) and his "The Superions" campy side-project:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnsPFi3-s1o&feature=em-share_video_user

I hesitate to specify, but if you watch you'll definitely spot some familiar DS allusions (pace the Bil Baird thread earlier in particular).

Great fun for Halloween!

G.

Any doubt that Chloe is the very epitome of cool, hip, smart and caring has vanished in the wake of the report that she was an attendee at this charity event for a very important cause:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/style/A-Jaded-Celebrity-Crowd-Shaken-by-a-Story-At-the-GLSEN-Respect-Awards.html

G.

There is a blonde vampire hunter in this one who would make a fab 1890s Angelique...

G.

What the BarnaDepp makeup makes me think of most is the Munster makeup used in the 1966 color film MUNSTERS, GO HOME, where makeup designs were used based on the Bud and Wally Westmore adaptations of the original Jack Pierce classic Universal monster designs.

The joke or "camp" in the movie was that those makeup designs were specifically meant for black and white shooting.  Using them in a color film really made the family look like cartoon characters.  On a related topic, there's actually footage on Youtube of a color Frankenstein monster makeup Jack Pierce devised, presumably when the notion of shooting SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (1939) in color was briefly considered and it's more subtle.

Depp's makeup would have worked much better in b&w.  In color it looks very cheap and garish.  And then there are the fingernails...

G.

Imagine if "Angie" had been given something like the outfit Parker wore for the "tycoon to lackey" scene in 1970... now THAT would have looked great on Eva Green... particularly if whoever was responsible for the hair had had their act together.  But, as Sandor uttered in 1897, "what might have been... can never be!"

G.