Maybe they can film it using Pixar bobble-heads.  That would certainly give an entertaining twist to the 3-D factor.  They'll love it in Peoria and think of the action figures!

cheers, G. still repeating his mantra:  NoDS restoration out on DVD (with extras)!

Fans of the 1795 storyline will catch a glimpse of a familiar image (involving blonde beauty Annette Vadim, a torn, blood-stained dress, and a mirror) in this trailer of Roger Vadim's 1960 classic Blood and Roses:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhQWVOuONQs&feature=related

I wonder where this fan got hold of the trailer. I've heard of a laserdisc release from Japan (?) which may be the source.  The trailer wasn't on the crappy EP VHS release from Paramount in the early 1990s, and the color on the trailer is much more vivid than the washed-out palette of the print Paramount presented in their US VHS release.

G.

This brings back fond memories for those of us old enough to have been around back when this was "the cerebral fan's alternative" to Famous Monsters:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L5fa2CwoCuY/SrFrhaB2PmI/AAAAAAAAAdE/uGo3ZFl5E34/s1600-h/CoF16.jpg

I think of this painting as "Barnabas and the Leviathan Queen"--perhaps even Carolyn as she would have been after her "transformation"?

If you go back to the gallery of other mag covers for this zine from the Sixties, you'll see that images of Barnabas figured several times over the years in the cover layout.

Enjoy!

G.

Hey Janet,

Alas! Alack! No more Hoffman for at least a month.  Collinwood just isn't the same without her vinegary smiles and barely smothered smirks.  Talk about a Domestic Goddess!

John Harkins, who played Horace Gladstone, was one of the most chameleon-like character actors I have ever seen.  He also appeared as Lieutenant Costa (I think only for two episodes) during the 1967 Laura Collins storyline, Mr. Strak in the Leviathans story, and perhaps his best-loved (?) role among fans, the infamous Garth Blackwood, Master of Dartmoor.

Lieutenant Costa is I think the most like John Harkins must have been in regular life, and if I had a picture of him to show you, you could see how completely he changed his appearance, bearing, and body language for the extremely sleazy role of Gladstone.  Love your image of Gladstone at home on the ratty armchair scarfing down the Jello in one of this hideous plastic bowls.  Brilliant!

G.

I remember other periods when taping the episodes out of sequence was just as nutso as this.  When I learned about this, it helped me understand why the actors could never understand what was actually going on--and why the writers and production stuff were barely able to do so.

Midnite love, that's a brilliant capture of Roger doing what he loves best!

G.

That trailer is gorgeous.  Barbara Steele's voice literally sends chills up my spine.

Can't wait!

G.

Just a note to thank you MB for those wonderful Julia closeups on display earlier this week (maybe these were for scene #187?).  I particularly liked one where she was either saying the line about the sheriff thinking the vampire has left the community, or about their likelihood of complete success in the treatment.  Grayson managed to look almost like a schoolgirl about to be taken out for a treat at that moment. marvelous capture.

And of course you know how much I love the one of Julia hovering in romantic rhapsody over the music box...

If only the actors had been allowed to play out the denouement with some degree of tragic subtlety.  Instead, we got DC's dream of becoming the Sam Peckinpah of the horror set.

G.

I don't remember Jenna Dewan at all.  I do remember Blair Brown as someone supposedly named Elizabeth Collins Stoddard dithering away like Harriet Nelson on speed.  It was highly disconcerting.  The memory overall is indeed unpleasant, but there were pleasant moments--bits of Matt Czuchny's unclothed body, and Alec Newman's eyes and voice, being perhaps the most pleasant.  In THIS DS I could definitely have gone for some Barn/Willie slash.  Ah well.

G.