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

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

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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...

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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!"

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Another DS connection with this version of PIT & THE PENDULUM (which I adore) is that Barbara Steele, who played Julia in 1991 DS, has a special role.

The stock footage of the house by the sea was re-used in a couple of Monkees episodes too...

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"The Incredible Dr. Markesan."  After seeing several stills from it as a child in Famous Monsters, I finally got to see the episode a few years ago.  It's a really good one, even if the stupidity of the Dick York character really does beggar belief.

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MB, a friend of mine whose teenaged daughter just left for college described how she watches television.  She typically marathons through half a season or more of episodes on a given weekend while chatting with her friends, doing her homework, having a playlist on, and for all I know painting her toenails as well.

It seems as if a number of adults have the same habit.  Overstimulated much?

The opposite extreme is represented by a couple of people who ban phone calls when the new True Blood airs...

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The show is supposedly on hiatus now till sometime in early November, I presume to help take advantage of the ratings "sweeps" (which seem really archaic to me, but don't ask me to explain behavior of the people who run the "industry").  Since there's such a huge buzz around it, perhaps they're going to fill in the time by repeating the first five episodes.

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