Posted on 01/18/2019 7:50:44 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
Won two Golden Globes. Won Emmy for deliciously villainous role on The Wild Wild West. Nominated for Oscar four times.
Master of the craft. She can riff on “Darwin”, “Derwood” and everything else and make me laugh. That whole show was awesome.
I bought the entire “Wild Wild West” on DVD and her episode stuck out as exceptionally disturbing. A tribute to her talent. Even more evil than Michael Dunne. That little dude was really messed up in real life but turned in fantastic performances. What a series!
I stand corrected.
Poe is interesting. A creative genius. I need to read up more on him.
Very much ahead of his time. Certainly stood apart from it.
He was a fan of Dickens; wanted Dickens to help him secure a publisher. (They had an hours-long one-on-one meeting in Dickens’ hotel room, described by Dickens in his diary, and I think in a letter home to his wife, during his first trip to America.)
Dickens had a talking raven in “Barnaby Rudge,” which even says “nevermore” at one point — before Poe’s famous poem.
Also, Poe wrote for a newspaper an interesting article describing Dickens in action, giving his public readings in front of a sell-out crowd in that day’s equivalent of Madison Square Garden. It’s better than a movie of the event, in the way the article captures the ambiance.
Yes, I saw it. I enjoyed it. It was a challenge to place all the characters from all the different novels, and even place names, which they drop casually into the plot or dialogue. I seem to remember having the impression that they were going to do a Season 2.
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