SHADOWGRAM UPDATE NUMBER # 417
MARCH 19, 2019
 
JOHN KARLEN RECOVERING:
 
ShadowGram has been notified that beloved "Dark Shadows" actor John Karlen has been hospitalized following a medical emergency.
 
He is currently under analysis and receiving treatment for a stroke suffered this past Sunday.
 
Fans who may wish to send John a get-well card may do so by mailing to the following address:
 
John Karlen - Patient
Providence St. Joseph Medical Center
501 South Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA  91505
 
ShadowGram sends John warmest wishes for a speedy and full recovery and will provide
further updates as they become available.

The screen grab attached below is of the Tappan Zee Bridge (connecting Nyack with Tarrytown) as seen above Lyndhurst in Night of Dark Shadows.  And the video in the below link shows the final moments of its Eastern approach (which I believe to be the same portion seen in NoDS) on January 19 when it was demolished by explosives.

The replacement is called the Mario Cuomo Bridge and not, unfortunately, the Mario Cuomo Tappan Zee Bridge. 

Tappan Zee Bridge comes down in a flash; video


Many thanks to Kosmo for the link!

This past weekend (Saturday, 1/12), Svengoolie on MeTV aired the cheesy "Village of the Giants" (presented in Svensurround, meaning his own brand of sound effects were added).  The cast!  The music!  The pop culture locations! ... I could not stop watching.  As always, he broke to talk about the cards and letters he receives from fans, and one such letter came with photos of a couple with the last name Pietrantoni-- DS fans posing in their Svengoolie tees in front of the Collins crypt from HoDS.  Unfortunately, Sven identified it as the having been "used on the Dark Shadows TV Show," sigh.  But I did not know that the cemetery has dedicated an open casket space inside to Barnabas.  See the couple's photo below.

Kelly Hu appears in the Hallmark movie "Christmas Wonderland".  It premieres Saturday night Dec. 1 at 9/8C on the Hallmark Movies channel.

Preview  Click Showtimes for subsequent airings.

[Sometimes I receive these in my mailbox and sometimes not.  This one comes from Facebook.]

ShadowGram (SG) Official Dark Shadows (DS) News Online Update # 410
Sunday, October 21, 2018
**** Dan Curtis: Old School/New School Special Tribute & Video Highlight Retrospective
**** New DS-inspired music video starring Kathryn Leigh Scott in the role of Elizabeth Collins Stoddard.
**** HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS and NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS on TCM
**** Discovery of the Long-Lost Lyndhurst Garden Film

Hello, Dark Shadows Fan,

**** DAN CURTIS: OLD SCHOOL/NEW SCHOOL: Special Tribute & Video Highlight Retrospective Honoring the DS Creator & Producer-Director of Classic TV & Film Horror/Gothic Romance
Thursday. Oct. 25, 2018 from 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
The Paley Center for Media, 25 W 52nd St., New York, NY 10019
Host by Paley curator David Bushman
Including discussion with Dan Curtis Productions' Jim Pierson
Admission: $12 advance / $15 door

Description: In the early 1970s, just before Hollywood auteurs like Wes Craven and John Carpenter invented the modern horror film . . . producer/director Dan Curtis dominated television horror with a series of programs reinterpreting traditional genre tropes . . . Curtis had earlier built his reputation as a purveyor of a different kind of horror – first with the Gothic-turned-supernatural daytime soap Dark Shadows (1966 to 1971) and then with a series of TV movies and specials airing between 1968 and 1975, including The Night Stalker, The Night Strangler, Trilogy of Terror, and adaptations of such classic monster tales as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Turn of the Screw, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Knowingly or not, Curtis . . . tapped into the zeitgeist of the time – the turbulent sixties, the paranoid seventies – by imbuing classical, literal monsters with human dimensions, beginning with Dark Shadows, whose conflicted, Hamlet-esque vampire, Barnabas Collins, spoke to the outlaw culture of the late sixties. . . With The Night Stalker (1972), scripted by horror legend Richard Matheson (I Am Legend, The Twilight Zone), Curtis once again turned to the classic creature of the night, in this case a vampire terrorizing young women on the streets of Las Vegas, but, in the age of Watergate, stirred in a political cover-up, foreshadowing a rash of literary and cinematic paranoid thrillers. . .
Join us as we explore these and other titles in Curtis’s horror oeuvre, exploring his thematic and aesthetic preoccupations, his evocation of the times, his own influences, and his influence on the men and women who have followed in his footsteps. . .

A preview of the upcoming documentary release Master of Dark Shadows will also be featured.

https://www.miskatonicinstitute.com/events/dan-curtis-old-schoolnew-school-nyc/?fbclid=IwAR0zl-G6VH-KsJSCivKhYb7JW0sXToDQNlonr8hB8_jOwD-QbQjZPlBzoj0

**** NEW DS-INSPIRED MUSIC VIDEO STARRING KATHRYN LEIGH SCOTT

From the blog post: Pop singer-songwriter Kyle Motsinger pays homage to Dark Shadows with his new single, aptly called “Dark Shadows.” . . . The accompanying visual, premiering today, is a masterfully-crafted piece of throwback cinema, opening up on a late-night rendezvous to a decrepit mausoleum. Motsinger, who plays the fair-skinned, long-haired protagonist, finds himself at the loving mercy of a vampire named Barnabas Collins, a direct reference to the show, Dark Shadows.

Motsinger’s own fascination with the show and its motifs informs his artistic choices and perceptive direction. With “Dark Shadows,” the New Yorker stages his own gruesome but spellbinding fantasy. “I found my way into the song by imagining myself falling in love with vampire Barnabas in that gothic house of Collinwood,” he says of the dark-club song, which he co-wrote with producer Lorant Duzgun. . . . . Motsinger met Scott in what can best be described as “a moment of serendipity that I’ve never experienced before,” he says. “I sent her the song later and invited her to star in the music video as the character of Elizabeth, the family matriarch originally played by silver screen legend Joan Bennett.” Scott graciously accepted the invitation, and in the video, she dons a dazzling gown given to her by Bennett some years ago.

Online link to the video:
https://youtu.be/6b1nJMV_v0U

The Music Video Blog:
http://bsidesbadlands.com/kyle-motsinger-kathryn-leigh-scott-dark-shadows-video-premiere/?fbclid=IwAR3TqRBzUDa2RpX3kAhADdO5bqqXVDkKyOVAgQ2fZGj7ws7FQrAe5QxV6Rg

**** HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS and NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS on TCM

“House of Dark Shadows” and “Night of Dark Shadows” will be seen on Turner Classic Movies early Sunday morning on October 28 at 1:30 am and 3:30 am. NOTE: They are listed on the TCM schedule for October 27, and that schedule runs after midnight. Their schedule for the 28th starts at 6:00 a.m.

**** DISCOVERY OF THE LONG-LOST LYNDHURST GARDEN FILM:

This research has uncovered early images of the property dating to the 1870s as well as documentation from around the turn of the 20th century. . . . Staff found very little such documentation of the grounds dating from between the beginning of the 20th century and the early 1960s, when the National Trust acquired Lyndhurst. Until, that is, an unassuming reel of 16mm film surfaced in the Lyndhurst archives—and opened a new world of living color. The reel, which was found sitting at the back of a closet, was labeled “Lyndhurst Gardens, 1972,” but on it were 33 minutes of edited color footage from 1942. (Staff were able to establish the date based on a license plate that appears in the film.) The film captures various locations around the garden landscape in long, panning shots. The discovery of this film is significant because it offers, for the first time, a tangible look at the landscape during the period when Lyndhurst was owned by Anna Gould.

https://forum.savingplaces.org/blogs/special-contributor/2018/08/02/discovery-of-the-lyndhurst-garden-film?fbclid=IwAR2b8nY3eWrhMG_mENKzFyFIJKTUKdK5WNT2XuS-SxDuKHQ-at1JWI30b1M

SHADOWGRAM (SG) OFFICIAL DARK SHADOWS (DS) NEWS ONLINE UPDATE # 407
SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2018

**** SHADOWGRAM PREMIERE ANNOUNCEMENT:
SPECIAL DARK SHADOWS FESTIVAL: HALLOWEEN SURPRISE SCREENING & DISCUSSION – DS STARS ATTENDING SCREENING & CELEBRITY AUTOGRAPH SHOW
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20-21, 2018 - WESTIN HOTEL at LOS ANGELES (LAX) INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

**** DAVID SELBY PRESENTS LINCOLN SPEECH – WASHINGTON DC – MON., AUG. 27

**** DENISE NICKERSON RECOVERING FROM STROKE

**** JAMES STORM: RODEO PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT– VENICE, CA (LOS ANGELES) – OPENING FRI., DEC. 1


Hello, Dark Shadows Fan,

SHADOWGRAM PREMIERE ANNOUNCEMENT:
SPECIAL HALLOWEEN DARK SHADOWS FESTIVAL SURPRISE SCREENING + DS STAR GUESTS IN ONSTAGE DISCUSSION, AUTOGRAPHS, PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES, & DS MERCHANDISE

---- WESTIN LOS ANGELES AIRPORT (LAX) HOTEL, 5400 CENTURY BLVD., LOS ANGELES, CA 90045 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 & SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018

SHADOWGRAM is excited to premiere-announce a “special Halloween Dark Shadows Surprise” screening and DS celebrity Q&A +autographs on SATURDAY, OCT. 20, 6-9pm, at the Los Angeles (LAX) Airport Westin Hotel. The evening’s screening is presented as a Dark Shadows Festival event in conjunction with the Hollywood Show Celebrity Autograph and Memorabilia Convention that weekend where some of the DS stars and other film/TV celebrities will be appearing during Saturday Oct. 20 and Sunday Oct. 21 to greet fans and sign autographs.

**** DS stars will attend the evening screening and participate in an onstage discussion with audience Q&A afterward, followed by additional autograph signings with the DS guests.

These DS stars will guest at the Hollywood Show celebrity autograph and memorabilia convention at the hotel during the weekend: Sat. 11:00 am – 5:00 pm / Sun. 11:00 am – 4:00 pm:

---- Attending the Hollywood Show both Sat., Oct. 20 and Sun., Oct. 21, are: MITCHELL RYAN (Burke), KATHRYN LEIGH SCOTT (Maggie), ROGER DAVIS (Jeff), and LARA PARKER (Angelique). Dozens of other TV/film celebrities also will be at the Hollywood Show over the weekend.

---- DAVID SELBY (Quentin) will attend, only on Saturday, 10-20.

The DS guests will offer personally-signed photos, autographs, fan photo opportunities, books, and more. Also available for purchase: A variety of special and newly-released DS memorabilia.

**** SATURDAY EVENING, OCT. 20: Afternoon DS guests David Selby, Lara Parker, Kathryn Leigh Scott, and Roger Davis will be joined by NANCY BARRETT (Carolyn), ROBERT COBERT (Music Composer), JERRY LACY (Trask), JAMES STORM (Gerard), and CHRIS PENNOCK (Jeb) for the special Halloween Dark Shadows Surprise screening.

The screening/Q&A will be held in the second floor Westin Hotel Theatre at 6:00pm. Our DS guests will participate in a group discussion onstage after the screening and all attendees will receive a complimentary DS souvenir.

Seating is by general admission. The theatre will open at 5:00 pm for early seating. The screening will start at 6:00 pm and will be followed by an onstage discussion/Q&A with the stars. An autograph signing will be held after the screening and discussion, at approximately 8pm, with an end time of 9:00 pm.

**** IMPORTANT NOTE: Fans who ONLY wish to attend the 6:00 pm-9:00 pm DS screening/discussion and autograph session may pay $10 by sending advance payment, by check or money order, payable to Dark Shadows. Please send to Marcy Robin, P.O. Box 1766, Temple City, CA 91780-7766.
To pay $10 per person via PayPal through: Kathleener@aol.com
**** Please include each full name(s) for whoever you are paying, plus your complete email address, in order to receive your receipt by email.
For those who don’t attend the daytime autograph show on the first floor, Registration to attend the Saturday evening screening/discussion will begin upstairs on the second floor, outside the theatre, at 4:00 pm.

ALL OTHER TICKET PURCHASES TO ATTEND THE HOLLYWOOD SHOW DURING THE DAY ON SAT., OCT 20, AND/OR SUN., OCT 21, MUST BE PAID AT THE HOLLYWOOD SHOW TABLE AT THE DOOR OR IN ADVANCE FROM THE HOLLYWOOD SHOW WEBSITE (See details below).

Homepage: http://hollywoodshow.com/upcoming_shows.php / (818) 533-8204

Hollywood Show Info, including other celebrity guests: (note: Dark Shadows Guests & Event Details to be posted at the following Hollywood Show homepage/website by Mon., Aug. 27)

---- Order tickets: http://hollywoodshow.com/store/default/tickets.html

---- Pick up tickets with valid ID at the event Registration / Will Call table ONLY.

---- Ticket Prices:

*SAT. 10-20: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (1-Day Pass): $25 (INCLUDES ADMISSION TO 6:00 – 9:00 pm DS SCREENING)

*SUN. 10-21: 11:00 am – 4:00 pm / *2-Day Pass: $40 (INCLUDES ADMISSION TO 6:00 -9:00 pm DS SCREENING)

---- IMPORTANT NOTE: Children age 10 and under: FREE

---- Parking: $12 + tax per day with validation at Hollywood Show Front Desk or hotel restaurant/bars

---- Los Angeles Westin International (LAX) Airport Hotel - 5400 Century Blvd. - Los Angeles, CA 90045

**** DAVID SELBY PRESENTS LINCOLN SPEECH IN WASHINGTON DC, THIS MONDAY, AUG. 27

DAVID (Quentin) will present Abraham Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address Mon., Aug. 27, as part of the Presidential Sites Summit.

Publicity: “The White House Historical Association, a private non-profit educational organization founded by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961, will host the Presidential Sites Summit at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington, DC on August 27-30, 2018. The summit, which is held every 2 years, brings together leaders from presidential libraries, historic homes, and museums to share ideas and insights about their management and outreach.

“The summit's opening ceremony, ‘A Monumental Celebration,’ will take place at the Lincoln Memorial on Mon., Aug. 27, from 7:00 -8:00 pm. David Selby will appear on behalf of Ford's Theatre to deliver Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address. ‘A Monumental Celebration’ is a free event and is open to the public.”

Since a young age, David has explored Abraham Lincoln’s life and legacy, participating in a range of special events, panel discussions, historical reviews, performances, and more. He’s portrayed Lincoln in numerous stage and TV projects over the past five decades. David wrote and starred in his own intriguing play and subsequent novel about the President and a modern-day longtime Park Service worker at the Lincoln Memorial. On 2-11-2009, for the 200th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth, he portrayed the President in the play “The Heavens Are Hung in Black” at Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC, attended by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. He presented speech excerpts and more at Ford’s Theater 4-14/15, 2015, the national commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination.

DAVID guested as “Josef Desjardins” 8-1-18 on Hulu’s new fantasy/mystery/horror series CASTLE ROCK in “The Box,” (Episode 4 Season 1). The acclaimed series is set in Stephen King’s eerily complex Maine town and incorporates many of the literary elements found in his varied novels and short stories.

Hulu description: CASTLE ROCK: “A psychological-horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, Castle Rock combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King’s best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland. The fictional Maine town of Castle Rock has figured prominently in King’s literary career: Cujo, The Dark Half, IT and Needful Things, as well as novella The Body. Numerous short stories such as Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption are either set there or contain references to Castle Rock. This is an original suspense/thriller – a first-of-its-kind reimagining that explores the themes and worlds uniting the entire King canon, while brushing up against some of his most iconic and beloved stories.”

For series details and how to watch the episodes online:

https://www.hulu.com/…/castle-rock-b11816c9-9e35-44f3-bf04-…

---- David’s official website: http://davidselby.com/news.htm

**** DENISE NICKERSON RECOVERING AFTER SUFFERING STROKE

DENISE (Amy, Nora) suffered a stroke in late June. She was hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit for over a month, undergoing several surgeries and special procedures to stabilize her critical condition. Thankfully, Denise returned home Aug. 3. Her son Josh and his wife Jasmine assist with her care and therapy. Jasmine left her job in July to be home with Denise.

Jasmine shares personal updates through their Facebook page. Fans can share good wishes and words of support: https://www.facebook.com/SupportForJazzyandJoshNickerson/

Jasmine 8-22: “It's been hard adjusting to things this way now. We're all doing so much better, though…. Denise is cooperating with all of her therapists and doing more and working harder each time. We've fallen into a good routine and schedule with her. She's resting and getting stronger each day…. It’s nice to have some peace and normalcy.”

Encouraged by support and suggestions from friends and family, they appreciate PayPal donations of any kind to help with ongoing expenses. Fans who would like to help may do so at:
https://www.paypal.me/JazzyNickerson

**** JAMES STORM EXHIBIT: AMAZING PHOTOS OF “AMERICAN COWBOYS & COWGIRLS” 12-1-18

For years, JIM (Gerard) has proven to be a talented, perceptive photographer of people, animals, landscapes, nature, structures – and life itself. His keen eye and instinctive camera skills are particularly “focused” on a vast range of subjects. He captures the worlds of natural beauty, wildlife, history, human emotions and their interactions with the land, native peoples, and the varied rugged populations of the northern American Midwest and Central Plains.

His photo exhibit – “A Behind the Scenes Look at the American Cowboy / Cowgirl” – highlights the people, animals, environment, events, emotions, and power of the American Rodeo and the lives and traditions of all involved.

Jim’s photography exhibit will be at the Beyond Baroque Gallery in Venice, (Los Angeles), CA. The nearby distinctive Venice Beach (Pacific Ocean) is famed for its unique shops, restaurants, interesting ocean and shoreline views, local color, and ever-changing unusual sights.

Beyond Baroque Homepage: www.beyondbaroque.org/
681 N. Venice Blvd. Venice, CA 90291 – 310-822-2006

Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center Publicity: Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, it’s “a place dedicated to the possibilities of language (and) to expanding the public's knowledge of poetry, literature and art through cultural events and community interaction…. (It) offers a wide variety of workshops, readings, performances, art exhibits, community events and meetings…. Beyond Baroque is one of the United States' leading independent Literary / Arts Centers…. Beyond Baroque programming is supported by Memberships, Grants, and Corporate and Private Donations.”