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Current Talk '09 I / Re: Question about Quentin and ratings
« on: March 17, 2009, 07:04:40 PM »
Thanks for that info, Doctor and K9.  How intriguing that it was almost exactly 38 years ago!

G.

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Current Talk '09 I / Re: Question about Quentin and ratings
« on: March 17, 2009, 04:54:12 PM »
Thanks, Arashi.  I gave my copy of that book away (wasn't the artist's name Baldwin?), even though the strips were excellent--I've been getting more draconian about what I keep in my old age.

But now that you mention it, I do seem to recall Quentin popping up as a portrait...

cheers, Steve

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Current Talk '09 I / Re: Question about Quentin and ratings
« on: March 17, 2009, 02:51:10 PM »
Don't forget all of Quentin's "as played by Engelbert Humperdinck" appearances in those dreadful Gold Key comic books.

Quentin looked Tasmanian, Julia resembled a retired drag queen badly in need of chin surgery, Prof. Stokes appeared to be semi-batrachian...  I'm not sure what to say about Barn's portrayal in those comics, except that as I recall it, he was drawn looking more like Tony George than Jonathan Frid.

For some reason, Quentin never appeared in the vastly superior (artistically and story-wise) newspaper comics--I suppose because DC Prod had only licensed the characters of Barnabas, Liz, Carolyn and Angelique, and the setting of Collinwood (which was the movie Collinwood, not the actual estate we all know and love) for appearance in those comics.

G.

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Hmmm.  Given the caption, to which my twisted mind imputes salacious overtones, and Vicki's expression, I had some thoughts too, but unfortunately, they're not suitable for the readership of a family-friendly venue *evil leer*.

I watched a little of Laura, Liz, and Roger in January of '67 this morning--and Vicki was on a date with Frank--and I just thought again how much I LOVE this period of the series.

G.

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Current Talk '06 I / Re: The Levithins Are The Best Time Period!!!
« on: March 16, 2009, 06:32:43 PM »
Kitty IS the Root of all evil.

Which explains why we love her so much.

G.

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Yes, I meant paper--forgive the egregious typo.

Perhaps surprisingly, I feel moved to defend the PomPress books.  I would say the written content of the books is uneven, not one hundred percent brilliant or totally worthless.  The text in the books that I use most frequently and keep on a reference shelf with my DVDs is the episode guide from the revised DS Almanac (if I am remembering correctly), which I believe was the work of Ann Wilson.  Other pieces I have gotten special enjoyment from include Lara Parker's essay "Out of Angelique's Shadow," KLS' interview with David Henesy, Alex Moltke's preface to one of the books (in which I think she described Grayson as, I'm paraphrasing, "Auntie Mame meets Charles Addams", and wrote fondly of Thayer David), and a two or three page series of photographs documenting Thayer David's trip to an actual Manhattan antique shop in the very first of the books, which unfortunately has been unavailable for many years.

There are no doubt mistakes in the books--my Sun is in Leo so I'm too sloppy myself to be bothered by those.  I see the expressions of "faulty memory syndrome" and all-out blatant mistakes as the literary counterpart to all the flubs on the original series.

These books have given me many hours of pleasure over the years.  I've always found them to be reasonably priced, and before I was able to have the luxury of owning the show in home entertainment formats, it sometimes gave me comfort at the end of a particularly weary day to take one of the books down and commune with my childhood favorites.

As for Mr. Thompson's work, I will leave that to others to review, as I doubt whether further comment from me would be welcome here.

Best,

Gothick

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MacFarland's books are always expensive.  They cater mainly to libraries, especially academic libraries.  I find that their books are always laid out in a very workmanlike fashion, usually with a lower grade of people and black and white photographs that are in text.  No color photos, no glossy paper, and nothing remotely exciting about the look of the books (I work in an academic library so I have had the chance to peruse many of them).

And I seriously doubt whether this title is going to make a dent in the reputation of the PomPress books as the go-to source for documentation on DS.  Didn't PomPress also do a book on the Night Stalker films and series, too?

cheers, G.

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Current Talk '09 I / The Beauty of Grayson Hall
« on: March 12, 2009, 02:01:47 PM »
Hell's Bells!  what a GORGEOUS portrait of our Beloved Grayson on today's capture!  I'm fainting in the aisles!  Stagger-drunk with Beauty! 

My hat, were I wearing one, would be off to the Most Magnificent and Munificent Mysterious Benefactor!  Huzzah!

gasping for breath, hand clutched dramatically to throat,

G.

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I'll have to check out that article, but I'm more of a fan of Sixties TV.  Besides DS (which, even though it lasted into 1971, was, to my own mind, very much firmly in the zeitgeist of the Sixties), the shows I've been watching in the past year have included Boris Karloff's Thriller, The Wild Wild West, T.H.E. Cat, The Addams Family, and recently a couple of episodes of 77 Sunset Strip (I think technically those were from '59, as was another series I've been enjoying--Yancy Derringer).

I associate the early Seventies with the rise of Norman Lear via the hugely popular All in the Family (which I couldn't stand), and Good Times and Maude (both of which I found very amusing).  I recall endless newspaper and magazine articles of the day applauding the way Lear pushed a new level of frankness onto the tube with the subject matter and writing style of his shows.

There was nothing remotely "groovy" about this new trend, or about the other big hits of the Seventies (even Sonny & Cher's show was more glam than groovy) so it sounds like a case of someone who wasn't around blurring their decades.

G.

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Current Talk '09 I / Re: Up to episode 91
« on: March 06, 2009, 03:32:47 PM »
MB, I also read Art Wallace's interview in the old DS Files book (which I don't think I own any longer--moving multiple times over the years is tough on a personal library), and I was very surprised when I saw Malcolm Marmorstein's interview on one of the DS: the Beginning DVD sets recently, and Marmorstein actually claimed credit for inventing the character of Barnabas!  If I recall correctly, Art Wallace also claims credit for inventing the character in that old interview, and then there's the story of Bob Costello finding the name of Barnabas on a tombstone in an old cemetery.  In the newer Malcolm Marmorstein interview, he says that he chose the name Barnabas from a list of names he found in a book, and he ran it by Costello, who then supposedly spotted that tombstone somewhere.

The continuing revision of the early history is almost as intriguing as some of the original storylines...

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '09 I / Semi OT: spoof of hoDS
« on: March 03, 2009, 10:51:26 PM »
Fans,

This short clip (described as dating to the 1970s but obviously much more recent) has a final "sting" shot that is VERY reminiscent of a shot that fans of the film house of Dark Shadows (1970) will instantly recognize.  I don't want to give any more away but I'll just say--keep watching when it looks as if credits are beginning to roll at the end because that is when "it" happens!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD7Ggl7Mx3g

The clip runs for around 5 minutes I believe...  really something just for a giggle.

G.

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Current Talk '09 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0733
« on: March 03, 2009, 10:33:30 PM »
Laura did scream when the flames took her.  In a memorable scene with Quentin in 1897, she expressed with crystalline clarity just how painful her initial "death by fire" had been in Alexandria.

But who knows--perhaps her screams in 1967 were orgasmic.  There was this lady who used to live upstairs from me, and--

sorry, I was about to go WAY off-topic there.

cheers, G.

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Just an update to say that my copy of the ANGEL FOR SATAN disc came in, and I watched the movie last night.  The print looked gorgeous, although I suspect that the anamorphic widescreen transfer may not be the best possible treatment for this material.  The Italian language soundtrack with a fine, evocative score for full orchestra sounded fabulous on my equipment, and the subtitles seemed fine, apart from one egregious gaffe which slightly "spoiled" the payoff of the story (although for the attentive viewer, the "shocking" revelation did not come as much of a surprise). 

Barbara is part of an ensemble cast in this film, entering at about 17 minutes into the story.  The narrative is a highly characteristic bit of florid Italian melodrama.  The performances were uniformly fine, and the storyline gave Barbara a little more range than was typical for this type of material (there were even very subdued hints of lesbian eroticism in a couple of scenes!).  The movie reminded me in some ways of the under-appreciated 1962 film Blood and Roses, especially in the way in which the dramatically filmed landscape acted as a character in the drama, and the music of the soundtrack added emotional depth to the story.

I recommend AN ANGEL FOR SATAN to all Barbara Steele fans--you won't be disappointed.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '09 I / Re: Joan as a bride
« on: February 27, 2009, 10:46:49 PM »
I love the mantilla--very stylish and very late 1940s!

I saw the Secret beyond the door a few years ago and found it to be very Dark Shadows-ish, down to some of the themes in the plot.  Natalie Schafer is a hoot and has some really way-out lines in it.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '09 I / Re: Shadowgram
« on: February 25, 2009, 10:47:57 PM »
Wow, that's fantastic if true that the long-awaited restored movies DVD will be out in 2010.  So Mote It Be!

Thanks for the post, Midnite... for some reason, I'm no longer on the list for these emails...

G.

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