I am laughing out of my nether regions at the Mysterious Darling's last comment...

Whenever the topic of holidays at Collinwood comes up, I always find myself wondering whether Mrs. Johnson ever made that new recipe for Indian pudding?  *wink*

My sister made Indian pudding once in the Seventies.  And honest to Goddess, it took three hours.

G.

Wow.  Definitely a different role for Selby than that hootchie-kootchie show on that other network...

G.

Thanks for this interesting news.  I look forward to seeing the book.

I thought I knew EVeryone who played on Dark Shadows, but I draw a blank at the name Elizabeth Wilson.

I thought it was a real hoot when I was reading Stuart Little's Off Broadway history years ago when researching Grayson's career, and learned that one of the leading lights of the OB stage back in the early 1960s, at least in the eyes of many who followed it then, was none other than a certain character actor named.... Addison Powell!  *faints*

G.

Oh yeah Sandor and Willie you get all that PLUS Cassandra in her shiny black glisteningly-lacquered wig and lime green coat dress walking slowly towards Liz cooing "and then I must TOUCH you ... I puh-ROMISED you THAT!"  What a hoot!

Julia really is like the head of the Collinwood loony-bin in that episode!

G.

To paraphrase Miss Jean Brodie--for those who find this sort of thing important, this is the sort of thing that would be important to them.  *wry grin* I think these polls (they run them on sites all over the nets, don't they?)  are hotly followed by folks who spend a large part of their day socializing online.  Not at all to say that that's a bad thing--in these days of iPhones, people can be online while driving, working, paying bills AND having dinner with their friends.  

I personally don't think DS will ever be acclaimed as one of the top ten TV shows--nor do I mourn that fact in any way.  I think if DS had the potential for that kind of acclaim, it would be far too generic for me to stay intrigued by it all these years.  I do think that it's interesting that as the years have gone by and the series hasn't been picked up by any other network, DS' visibility in pop culture has seemed to spike in the past year or two.  The fact that they included a scene from one of the shows in that high profile Augusten Burroughs thing last year, plus all the hoopla around the Depp project, certainly means it's very much out in public view.  Not bad for a show that hasn't been on the air for several years now.

G.

Ah, once again we delight in the slides from THAT show!  It hit me that the snapshot of Julia hysterically clutching the phone could be captioned:  "PLEASE!  Ple-e-e-hee-heeeeease don't tell me you're all out of kalamata olives!  NO!  NO-HO-HO-HO-HOOOOO!"

I'm sure I did post some years back that some people with whom I am vaguely acquainted ran this episode as a run-up to the Oscar telecast and the people at their party were so riveted, they demanded to play it again ... and again ... and AGAIN. Grayson stole Oscar's thunder!

When "Julia goes off the deep end," theatre mavens applaud!

On a side note, I'd totally forgotten about "Gloria" Winters.  Cousin of Little Gloria Vanderbilt no doubt.  I'm now imagining some of Vicki's 1795 dialogue delivered with a Locust Valley lockjaw intonation...

Thanks once again to MB for making me smile today!

G.

Thanks, Lori, for posting that link.  I did watch the first episode of Moonlight and although it was amusing, I found the casting sketchy, particularly the fellow they cast in the Lacroix role--I have no idea who or what he was supposed to be, but whatever it was, it really wasn't working!

I did think that Sophia Myles (do I have her name right) is fabulous in the thankless role of the ingenue.  And the fellow who had Mick had some potential.  too bad the silly script had him sleeping in a deep freeze.  One wonders what on Earth the vampires did before the invention of refrigeration units?

G.

Julianna McCarthy, for me, provided the ONLY noteworthy performance in the 1991 revival series--apart from Barbara Steele's Julia.  I thought McCarthy's understated malevolence helped give some bite to the threat to Vicki from the witch hunters--I frankly found Roy Thinnes so over-the-top as to be laughable in his work as Trask (and were those eyebrows REALLY the preserved flattened millipedes they appeared to be???).  I'm sure the directors are to blame (and most like DC is to blame most of all) since several people I have seen do excellent work in other venues were either way off-the-hook or just plain bad here.

cheers, G.