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Current Talk '04 I / Re:Humor on Dark Shadows
« on: March 01, 2004, 10:45:43 PM »
Grayson put a lot of wit into her lines in certain scenes, as did Joan. I loved it when Julia and Carolyn are discussing the new antique shop that's just opened in town; Carolyn's raving about how "divine" it is and then says something else about it, to which Julia ripostes "you don't make it SOUND very 'dee-VINE'" with this Holly Golightly elevated-eyebrow face that never fails to crack me up.
A lot of Magda's funniest moments were non-verbal. I remember one scene where she's waiting for Barn to come out of his coffin with a very arch expression on her face and hands planted firmly on hips that's a scream. Her shuffling of the tarot cards in a scene with Laura at the cottage is wonderful too and always indues fits of cackling.
Joan had so many fabulous moments in the first year of the series. A great one from 1897 is a certain scene where rings up her husband, "Reverend" Gregory Trask, and informs him that thanks to certain arrangements she's made, he now has all the time he needs to meditate. I just love Joan's delivery of that line and the expression on her face--it's the embodiment of "the cat that ate the canary." Flawless.
Thayer David as Prof Stokes had some memorable zingers, too, particularly during the Cassandra Collins storyline (my personal all-time favorite DS storyline). I loved whenever he referred to Cassandra as "our favorite Witch" or mentioned his own "cat complex."
G.
A lot of Magda's funniest moments were non-verbal. I remember one scene where she's waiting for Barn to come out of his coffin with a very arch expression on her face and hands planted firmly on hips that's a scream. Her shuffling of the tarot cards in a scene with Laura at the cottage is wonderful too and always indues fits of cackling.
Joan had so many fabulous moments in the first year of the series. A great one from 1897 is a certain scene where rings up her husband, "Reverend" Gregory Trask, and informs him that thanks to certain arrangements she's made, he now has all the time he needs to meditate. I just love Joan's delivery of that line and the expression on her face--it's the embodiment of "the cat that ate the canary." Flawless.
Thayer David as Prof Stokes had some memorable zingers, too, particularly during the Cassandra Collins storyline (my personal all-time favorite DS storyline). I loved whenever he referred to Cassandra as "our favorite Witch" or mentioned his own "cat complex."
G.