I attended Mike's last DS Festival.  I had no contact with him but did get to hear him read a ghost story.  I was really shocked when we heard the news of his death.

I wonder whether anyone has heard how his widow has been getting on?

I thought Stroka's best role on DS was Aristede, but Bruno was a fun part.  The PT version of Bruno is really over the top!  they did Mike's hair with curlers!

G.

Yes, Claude, it's that episode, and Grayson didn't seem to know her lines, but part of what may have been going on was that she was aware that her dialogue was WAY out of character for Julia and felt pissed--and the discomfort showed in her performance.

Heather, DAHLLING, you crack me up, especially with the line about Barn consuming the last cup of coffee AND chocolate bar when Julia was having a DIFFICULT time of the month!  Too much!  (and I can just see him waltzing around completely oblivious to Julia's frayed nerves, being completely self centered, which would fray her nerves even more, of course!)

I watched this episode again last night--it had been a couple of years since I last viewed it--and I found myself wondering after it was over whether Grayson somehow got stuck with dialogue originally written for Barnabas and then hurriedly rewritten because Jon wasn't available that day?  The tone of the dialogue sounded much more like the way Barn spoke to Willie, than anything Julia ever said to him in any other show.  Of course, Barn generally did not run around on the show wearing long glittery gold necklaces,so at least that bit must have been meant for Julia.

cheers, G.

Jean-Claude, you know I *adore* that avatar!

I'm so glad that somebody has finally given Miss Fellows the RESPECT she deserves!

Agree with you 100 percent about that line of Joan's in Suspiria--that scene is the highlight of the entire film, as far as I am concerned!

cheers! G.

A word to the wise--when the Festival DOES release a schedule, don't plan your day around it.  They should publish it with a statement to the effect that "all programming subject to change" printed in large bold capital letters at the top...

Cheers!

G.

That sounds as if it may be the episode in which Davis and Lara Parker were guest stars.  I thought it was a two-parter, not a three parter, but I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to the "Galactica" Universe.

You may get to see Lara modelling her Vampilique fangs in this one.   I think she's on her way to a Halloween party and she's going as a vampire.  Cute!

G.

The note on #4 sounds as if these were tapes used in the 1980s WorldVision syndication.

[spoiler]I wonder whether this could have been the episode where Barnabas and Chris dig up a coffin containing a baby in the woods?  In one of the Edward Gross books there was an episode guide that mentioned that that episode had been skipped in WorldVision syndies in the Eighties.[/spoiler]

Interesting!

G.

Hi Connie!  Sorry, I just saw this question from you today.  I'll check and let you know.

cheers, Steve

Very interesting.  I'd never heard such frank quotes from Dan Curtis about how desperate he was to wind up Dark Shadows during the final year.  It really seems to support the theory I've promoted for years that Dan himself was being DS's cancellation.

The reviewer doesn't say so, but in my opinion John Llewelyn Moxey was a very gifted, highly imaginative director.  He also directed The House that would not die--an unusual vehicle for Barbara Stanwyck, based on the Barbara Michaels novel Ammie come home-- for the ABC Movie of the Week series, among several other films.  Horror hotel is one of my desert island films; it's so stylish, and has fabulous, idiosyncratic performances.

G.