I love the zombie plot!  It has some of the creepiest moments.  And there's an air of genuine pathos in Sandor's telling of zombie lore.

G.

What a great concept for a documentary!  Congratulations to Penny Dreadful and gang for being included!

G.

The season 1 cliffhanger of the Lair bore a pretty close resemblance to a certain repeated event on DS, although one that they had originally swiped from Edgar Allan Poe (whose new US stamp is damned pretty, I must say).

I kept looking for news about season 2 of the Lair but never saw an update. Thanks, David.

G.

Midnite!  you found it!

"Breathing... heaving breaths" and the way her hands move--it's soooo KLS in that snapshot!

cheers, G.

Garth baby, I for one got a good giggle out of what you wrote about dear Burke and his fate.

Full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes!  (or, in those case, those nasty "cures")

cheers, G.

To Nancy--thanks for sharing that fascinating anecdote about Peter Miner.  I just received the 4th set of the 1966/67 DVDs in the post recently and last night had a chance to view Bob Costello's interview, and he mentioned Peter Miner as one of the people he personally recruited in the original production unit.  Sy Tomashoff and Bob Cobert were also mentioned.  (It was interesting to learn that Costello was the one who recruited Cobert originally.)  Also Ramse Mostoller.  I recall Ramse mentioning in a letter to a fan that was published in a one-off collection some years ago that apart from Dan Curtis, she did enjoy working on DS.  It was implied that DC's temper and ego made things difficult for her personally--presumably why she eventually left, as did Costello, Ron Sproat, and some others over the years.

I well remember Joan Bennett in her autobiography describing how difficult it sometimes was to get through a scene because of the chaos that surrounded them on the set.  Nevertheless, I do think that she had some good times during her years on DS.

Best, Steve

I wish Todd Haynes had been attached to the Depp Shadows project as director.

I know, I'm way too weird-ass for my own good...

G.

I also enjoyed Tony George's work on DS, particularly some of his scenes with Frid--the two played off one another really well, I thought.

I have to confess, however, that once I got to see Mitchell Ryan in the part (this was much later on--I first saw Tony's episodes in the 1976 syndication of the '67 stories), I felt he "inhabited" the role much more believably, for whatever reason.

As I am sure I have mentioned on here before, Tony George became friends during his DS period with both Grayson and Sam Hall.  I don't know whether he and Grayson ever got a scene together during her time on OLTL in '82-'83.  I had never known that Tony George "hated" doing DS.  I wonder whether he gave any reasons in that article.

Apparently about a year or two after the show went off the air, Joan Bennett was on a talk show somewhere and also said she had not enjoyed working on the show.  The only reference I know of to this particular interview is on the Grayson Hall interview tape from March '73 where the girls are discussing various people who had worked on the show with GH.  GH response is characteristic:  "You gotta remember--she's an old lady!" and she added that she thought that Joan had enjoyed a lot about being on the series.

G,.