Excellent news regarding an encore performance for the slideshows!  Apart from everything else, seeing the early Julia snaps again will add zest to my summer!

G. (doing happy dance)

In my note on this thread, I inexplicably failed to mention the fabulous John Karlen.  It goes without saying that I adore him, and I think watching him do his thing with his various characters is a GAS!  My favorite is the original 1967 Willie Loomis.  His characterization of the much different Parallel Time counterpart, Will, was truly fascinating.

G.

It cuts across gender for me.  In general, I'm in the girls club, in that when Grayson, or Joan, or Clarice, or Nancy are on screen, they rivet my attention.  But the same goes for Thayer, Louis (I've become a HUGE fan of 1966 Roger), Humbert (especially Nicholas--I find Charles Dawson a crashing bore by and large), and, to a degree, Frid and Selby.  I tend to watch Briscoe, Crothers and any other male SYT onscreen more as a sex object but every once in awhile one of the boys will get some juicy bit of business (or take his shirt off--LOL!  I think DS must have been the very first soap that had its male ingenues shedding their shirts.  A pioneer in beefcake, too!)  I do wish Buzz had become a regular.  I can see Julia hiring Buzz to ferry her between Wyndcliffe, the Old House, and Points West.  "Oh, Buzz, Buzz, you mad, incorrigible boy, Buzz!" "Aw, Doc, shucks!  If ya feel it, SIT IT!"  I would crawl across broken glass...

And then, of course, in a class all his own comes Craig Slocum!! Isn't he divine?  *sigh*

Cheers, G.

Claude, honey, you crack me up!

I didn't know that about Warners, but it seems fairly typical of the firm.

G.

I'd buy it if Grayson's Playtex commercial were included among the extras. But of course, it won't be.

Just let you all know how demented I REALLY am where the Divine One is concerned...

G.

Hey Sandor, hope you enjoyed your birthday surprise of walking into the Master Bedroom (tee hee) to find Chris Jennings curled up with a big red satin bow tied in a very special place!

Happy Belated Birthday, my friend!

Steve

I thought that PT Angelique was a psychotic sociopath, full stop.  And, clumsy as Cass/Angelique often was in her spellcraft, PT Angelique's spells had all the finesse and control of a chainsaw on acid.

I didn't really get that PT Angelique was angrier; just completely out to lunch.  I wish [spoiler]they had done more with the storyline that hinted that Hoffman and Ang had been lovers at one time.  There were several hints about that during the first week of PT shows, but it was dropped when everybody came back from making the movie; probably because they realized they would never be able to get anything more explicit past the network's censors.

I thought it was interesting that in our time, Julia Hoffman fell in love with Barnabas and more or less helped him redeem his humanity.  The result of PT's Hoffman's love for Angelique went in the opposite direction--if anything, Hoffman encouraged Angelique to indulge her own monstrous ego and swollen vanity to excess.  There was one scene in the later part of the storyline where this is shown more or less explicitly, but I don't think you have gotten there yet, Buzz.[/spoiler]

G. 

$65 for the Banquet made me raise my eyebrows.

You might want to eat on your own before that "meal" is served... just my two drachmae!

G.