LornaHansonForbes

i'm in the PARALLEL TIME STORY now and I am enjoying it quite a bit. I also wonder if these shows were not "taped live" because of the impressive tricks they use switching between two versions of the same set, in one time its a totally empty room, and in another it's filled with furniture. and it doesn't look like there's an edit when the door is closed and reopened. i also am really enjoying the evolution of the character of ROGER, he started out as very much a one-note human ascot, but thanks to seeing him in other times and also having gone through some heavy sh!t in the present, we see that he's a much better, more complicated person than he started out as.

Which have the most gossip? Honestly that’s my number one interest.

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I think I have to order this book on Amazon, it seems to be the definitive DS guide.

Wow, I’m kind of surprised to learn this. I mean Eileen was an Oscar winner, but I guess You Gotta do what you Gotta do. (Also, daytime TV was a lot more popular back then. I think even the lowest rated shows managed to get three or 4 million viewers.) Still I have to imagine it couldn’t have been easy to do.

I would also like to believe that in the parallel universe, there was a long-running, one hour, primetime show that starred Grayson Hall and Eileen Heckart as a pair of bitter spinster sisters, one a librarian and one a substitute teacher, who solve murders in-between coffee, cigarettes and b1tch sessions...

Ps- I don’t know if anybody else has brought this up, but it was actually Grayson Hall who got her husband a job as a writer on the show.

I sort of wonder if the Barnabas/Julia relationship was something of a conduit for Sam Hall to discuss his own feelings about his relationship with Grayson. “You are my unquestioning, selfless protector and defender, and I take you for granted and occasionally resent it.“

Which, for a time, was the highest rated made for television movie ever! (Although to be honest, I found it a little disappointing. But it has been many years since I saw it.)

This was coming also from the same SAM HALL who wrote a special postscript for the final DARK SHADOWS VHS RELEASE That claimed Julia and Barnabas ended up marrying in the end. so go figure.

it was SO ODD. Its on youtube if you wanna seek it out.

oh yeah, her husband has already been killed...STEPFORD WIDOW I should say.

i came across two interviews on youtube yesterday, i'm not going to post either one though. one was with ROGER DAVIS and he is EVERY BIT the JACKASS you would think and then some. he brags about "giving our lady director Hell" and throwing the script at her, and deliberately blocking his costars prompters and stepping on their lines- and he is proud and gleeful about all of this. i had forgotten how much you can really come to dislike certain actors on soaps when you see them day in and day out, now that i see what a terrible person he is in real life, he has scored a perfect trifecta for zero sex appeal, complete lack of acting skill, and being an awful actual person for me. the other was with (head writer) SAM HALL and I was surprised at how DREADFULLY DULL he was to listen to, but moreso by how he went out of his way to badmouth GRAYSON [paraphrase]; "I learned, for example, you can never end a scene with a reaction shot from GRAYSON, because she doesn;t understand, she gives you LILLIAN GISH" and he clearly means this in a bad way, and I was p!ssed on behalf of both GRAYSON and LILLIAN...But the real clinker is when he says (and I paraphrase here) "DAN CURTIS could've saved the show early on. I came to him and I said, you gotta kill JULIA- we need to find someone else to protect the vampire...she can't be the only person who knows." i'll give you all a minute to let that sink in. thank GOD DAN CURTIS did not listen to this suggestion and I kinda sorta hope he slipped GRAYSON the name of a good divorce lawyer.

Also also, I love Angelique as a Stepford wife in 1970. I think she’s really found her element at last.

Also LARA PARKER May have learned a thing or two researching witchcraft for the role, because she has aged extremely well.

There are quite a few who are with us still though, (unfortunately one of them is Roger Davis)

I legitimately thought it was a prosthetic the first time I saw the actor, Like maybe they were going for a Rondo Hatton thing.

Thus far, I don’t really mind the leviathan story, it’s nice to be back in the present and I enjoy evil Barnabas. However, I have to admit I’m somewhat iffy on the human chin they got to play Jeb.

ALSO. THIS, WHICH IS GIVING ME MAJOR THEME FROM FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 3 VIBES:

oh, HELL YEAH!