FWIW: there's a great scene in the 1968 storyline (I think from some point in the Vampilique era) where Stokes and Julia are sitting at the chessboard in the drawing room and she asks for his help and he deftly, quietly, and definitively tells her off for all the times she's asked for his help, promised to explain, and NEVER followed through.  Great scene, and deeply satisfying on a certain level for the audience.

"Watering the monkshood"?? Rainey, I'm dying here!

G.

I just love this scene!  Great capture from it.

G.

Constance Ford's performance in The Summer Place holds up a mirror to America's neurotic demonization of sex.

It is a movie and a performance that still has relevance, if you read the headlines particularly on what some religious groups advocate in our schools, I am sorry to say.

And Sandor, the thought of Grayson and Constance Ford playing scenes together (especially if their characters were at odds) has me in a SWOON!

cheers, G.

Great!  I had a similar experience a few months ago wearing a Grayson's Legion T-shirt (with a screen shot of Barnabas and Julia on the cover) in the grocery store.  The clerk at the cash register, a lady around my age, recognized it and we talked about the show for a bit.  The bagger, a young man around 20, found the whole thing baffling, but I did mention that it used to be on Sci Fi so that gave him a bit of a frame of reference for it.

G.

Thanks, Criseyde, for posting the obituary.  All very sad.

G.

I would love them to air All my children from '73, and OLTL from '82-'83, so I could finally get to see some of my beloved Grayson's most elusive performances!

I read somewhere that Humbert A. A. played an interior decorator on Secret Storm or Search for Tomorrow--I'd LOVE to see that! Also, I think Clarice was on Storm.

Marie Wallace had a great role as a classic soap opera bitch on one of those shows; India something-or-other was her name. I"ve heard some fun stories from fans reminiscing.

So yeah, bring on the vintage soaps!

G.

Lovelady Powell totally rocks the house, as far as I am concerned.  I really wish Portia had become a recurring character on the series.

G.

A weekly entertainment-oriented gossip column I read in one of the local gay papers reported in yesterday's installment that Charlize Theron is widely rumored to be the choice for the Dusty Springfield biopic project, now apparently helmed by Ang Lee.  Fans of the legendary British chanteuse will recall that Kristin Chenoweth was going to be starring as Dusty and was also listed as Exec Producer of the project.  I then heard a report last fall that the backers wanted Dusty's lesbian love life to be excised from the script.  Apparently Chenoweth is no longer associated with it, and with the names of Ang Lee and Ms. Theron being associated with it, it sounds as if it's heading for a much higher-end sort of deal.

I have strongly ambivalent feelings about the whole idea of making a movie about the life of Dusty Springfield in the first place, but people I respect have given Ms. Theron rave reviews in her performances, and of course Ang Lee's expertise as a director is well attested.

I often thought that Lara Parker was copying Dusty's look in the parts of DS set in the 1960s (when she was a blonde, obviously), so it may be that fans here who saw a resemblance actually saw Charlize Theron trying to suggest one of Lara Parker's own models.

Let's hope this "Son of a Preacher Man" doesn't turn out to be the latest by-blow from Reverend Trask!

cheers, G.