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'Dark Shadows' Jonathan Frid dies on Friday the 13th at age 87
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| April 19, 2012 | 11:03 am
| Patrick Kevin Day
Posted on 04/19/2012 12:54:35 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: HOYA97
The complete series is also available for pre-order from Amazon. Hefty price of $419. 131 discs. YIKES!!
Dark Shadows
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posted on
04/19/2012 2:21:33 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: Lazlo in PA; mass55th
I just saw this weekend that they are doing a Dark Shadows movie with Jonnie Depp. I thought to myself, how many movie goers are even familiar with that show to make it worth doing? RIP.
When people were talking about kids and the Twilight movies, I pointed out that those girls' mothers or grandmothers swooned over Dark Shadows. Nobody knew what I was talking about.
Ive seen the trailer, and the movie is nothing like the series. More of a comedy. Kind of disappointing.
Tim Burton is talented, but his adaptations (Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice in Wonderland) aren't usually improvements. Likewise, Johnny Depp is prodigiously talented, but his movies with Burton aren't his best work.
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posted on
04/19/2012 2:23:57 PM PDT
by
x
To: mass55th
Thats a lot of money and discs!! Yikes, indeed!!!
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posted on
04/19/2012 2:24:32 PM PDT
by
HOYA97
(twitter @hoya97)
To: Lazlo in PA
So he was the heart-throb of the series?
Looks like an "Austin Powers" kind of thing (i.e. you didn't have to be that attractive to be a sex symbol in those days).
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posted on
04/19/2012 2:25:46 PM PDT
by
x
To: Sarah Barracuda
What is it with celebrities dying in 3s..very sad..RIP
We're in the death zone now and everyone dying is around our age.........I refuse to read the obituaries like my parents and grand parents did.
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posted on
04/19/2012 2:30:26 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(Would I like to be young again? No, I worked too hard to get here, I don't want to do it again)
To: netmilsmom
People wonder why Im messed up..... Nah, I've never wondered - although this does give some insight. :-)
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posted on
04/19/2012 2:30:50 PM PDT
by
Gabz
(Democrats for Voldemort.)
To: x
When people were talking about kids and the Twilight movies, I pointed out that those girls' mothers or grandmothers swooned over Dark Shadows. Nobody knew what I was talking about
Well, at least Barnabas Collins didn't sparkle . . .
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posted on
04/19/2012 2:39:40 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: windcliff; onedoug
He must have seen the Johnny Depp movie. RIP.
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posted on
04/19/2012 2:49:12 PM PDT
by
stylecouncilor
(Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant...better left unstirred.-PG Wodehouse)
To: Perdogg; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...
I met him once, at our family-owned restaurant, he was just stopping in for a bite.
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posted on
04/19/2012 2:50:45 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: stylecouncilor
To: netmilsmom
When i was a kid, the chaplain priest at my school had a glow in the dark Barnabas poster in his office and we talked about the show as we were all fans. When the priest said mass, he always said the name of Barnabas very loudly and significantly!
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posted on
04/19/2012 2:56:39 PM PDT
by
Moonmad27
("I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way." Jessica Rabbit)
To: stylecouncilor
To: Gabz
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posted on
04/19/2012 3:08:46 PM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(I am Breitbart)
To: Moonmad27
I would have LOVED to have been at that mass!
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posted on
04/19/2012 3:10:30 PM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(I am Breitbart)
To: Olog-hai
Man, they’re dropping like flies: Dick Clark, Charles Colson, Levon Helm, now Barnabas.
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posted on
04/19/2012 3:14:09 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: Sarah Barracuda
Does the sax Player for Men At Work count? Greg Ham was murdered. It’s his sax on Who Can It Be now..
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posted on
04/19/2012 3:26:55 PM PDT
by
bleach
(If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
To: netmilsmom
That is hilarious! Your mom sounds like a hoot! I have begun watching the Dark Shadows series on Netflix (was a baby when it originally aired). Ironically, just this morning I watched the episode where Barnabas rises from the dead. And now I get the horrible news that he died. Such a sad day!
To: Puppage
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Horribly & regretfully made a comedy." I saw the commercial last night. They've ruined what could have been a really good movie. Not that it had a chance with Depp looking like some light-in-the-loafers club kid.
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posted on
04/19/2012 3:41:14 PM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
(Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
To: Scott from the Left Coast
I was in the first grade, and the teacher addressed the class and explained how bad the show was for children and warned us to stay away from it, LOL.
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posted on
04/19/2012 3:45:19 PM PDT
by
CatherineofAragon
(Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
To: SevenofNine
I remember. I still used a VCR back then to tape them. And I'd watch them at night and fall asleep during some of the slower moving episodes with that eerie music in the background. (Not complaining actually)
What I can complain about is that Sci-Fi (then) lost the rights to show them when there were fewer than a dozen episodes left to be shown! Incredible! And they could have prevented this because they preempted it for a couple of weeks just a month or so before that! I was annoyed.
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posted on
04/19/2012 5:01:53 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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