Wow, Victoria, that was a fabulous review.  I've never read the novel, so I appreciated your references to that.

Literate storytelling really isn't in vogue, is it?  I have to admit that what you write of the cast makes me salivate.  I just watched the 1965 film, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors--Donald Sutherland was incredibly sharp (and gorgeous to look at) with very limited material in that.

G.

It was so funny to have this show up on the TV set as my roommate and I were getting ready to run that evening's rental--the DVD of Taste the Blood of Dracula.  As fate would have it, when I had the movie on it was the scene where the Undead Lucy is trying to lure her fiance into her embrace.  It was obviously a send-up of several similar scenes from classic Hammer films.  Unfortunately I didn't bother continuing to watch, so I missed the actual staking (I find the pacing of Mel Brooks later work really uneven, in a distracting way--there was some gag or other he was dragging out unnecessarily in this sequence, which made it all too easy for me to switch to my movie).

G.

Congratulations and hearty hugs to MB, Midnite and dom!

What else can I say but "you light up my life" (hmm, that would make an excellent soundtrack to a fan video of Ang torching sequences...)

your quirky old Go-thick

Funny that Patti mentioned Chris P coming in drag.  He did appear in drag in the Merchant-Ivory early Seventies film, Savages (in an ensemble cast which also included Thayer David).

G.

Just watched again and my admiration grows and grows.  I love the montage recalling earlier phases of  B & J's relationship (the one where she brushes her hair lightly with her fingers is so endearing), the way you edited the B & J scenes from this storyline, the wonderful Julia/Ang catfight, and that killer ending!

So when are we going to see 1995: Divided Loyalties? (or whatever)

A Fan Forever,

Steve

I keep going back to today's Montage (featuring the Many Screams, Shrieks, and Hurlings of Miss Sabrina Stuart) and just plain CACKLING.

My fedora is off to El Mysterioso yet again!

bowing, Gothick

That's really nice to know, Fran.  I know Grayson was really fond of Tony and it's good to know he's had such a great life.

I wonder whether he has ever been invited to a Festival?  I really enjoyed his work on the series.

Steve

I just watched these episodes (on my handy videotapes, which are around ten years old but still play beautifully) and I thought The Briscoe was HAWT in that white turtleneck.

Sandor, did you see the one where Chris and Carolyn had come in after spending the evening out, and Chris talks about how "relaxed" he feels, and Caro has a line something like "Are you relaxed, Chris?" and he gives her a mischievous smile and says words to the effect of "Yes, and you should know why!"  I thought the actors were playing the scene as if there had been some hanky-panky between the two at that point, although my guess is Caro was too shrewd to let Chris go further than second base (lucky gal).

Too bad there was no scene of Chris lounging around the Cottage in a lurid bikini-brief bit of shorts--and nothing else!

dreamily, G.