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I was on a missing episodes forum, reading through yet another false claim about finding lost episodes, and a few people were mentioning this story. I'm so out of the loop with Doctor Who these days it was new to me. The son of the man who wrote An Unearthly Child is not allowing the story to be shown on BBC iPlayer, and is claiming he will possibly sell the rights to someone who is anti-BBC. Among reasons given are being upset at casting of Ncuti Gatwa. I know many newer fans are not interested in the old material anyway, which I can understand, much as I love it, but it's still sad to see formative material being taken away due to such rot. https://gizmodo.com/doctor-who-an-unearthly-child-streaming-stef-coburn-1850933733

I loved the publicity photos Lara did for Night of Dark Shadows. They may be my favorite thing about the film.

I'd heard this a few days ago; thanks for posting it. Only 61. I saw in her obituary that she had refused to do ads for cigarettes or for any products from South Africa (during the apartheid years). Good for her. I didn't realize she'd been one of the correspondents in the starting years of the Early Show (or whatever it's called now).

I left my thoughts in the Memoriam thread, but I may as well say here too that I just adored Lara's work on Dark Shadows. I remember, as a kid, getting the annual KLS put out around 1990 or 1991, and reading up on the stories before watching the Sci-Fi Channel reruns. I think I knew of Angelique before I saw her, but as soon as I did see her, I was captivated in a way words on a page couldn't produce. She was luminous, making a very dark character impossible to hate. They brought her back so many times, always with good reason. I remember how she just tore through the Leviathan storyline, turning around a very confused plotline with the purity and fire that only actress and character could bring. Lara was also an excellent writer, not just her fiction, but the anecdotes she shared in the DS books. Whether it was gently shading Helena Botham Carter for being two-faced, or talking about the nurse who took pictures of her newborn for her because of being an Angelique fan, or talking about meeting a little girl at a convention who was named after Angelique and clearly not thrilled about it, she knew how to draw you in. I hope she knew how loved she was. Angelique will never die. After we're all gone, someone out there is going to find Dark Shadows, and see her for the first time, and she'll take them far away, as she did so many of us.

Heartbroken to hear about Lara. I first started watching Dark Shadows when it aired on the Sci-Fi Channel in the early '90s, and Lara transfixed me at first sight. She was a wonderful actress, charismatic, sexy, and had chemistry with just about any scene partner. She carried Dark Shadows through strong and lean times, all the way to the end. Even when not playing Angelique, she had one of the stronger heroines (Catherine). I even have a few of Lara's books in storage somewhere. We've lost so many people lately, but this one hurts.

It's terrifying to know how close he is to such levers of power, with much of the media cheering him all the way.

If you haven't seen it, you may enjoy this old Suzanne Disney special, Totally Minnie. An old staple of mine and an intro for me into many Disney classics. My personal favorite segment is "Shopping," which starts around 39 minutes, and also features a great use of Robert Carradine's Carradine smolder.

I was never very involved with Three's Company, so my awareness of Suzanne came more in the years when she was mostly known as herself, along with Step by Step. She pulled off what Goldie Hawn did in films, in transitioning out of dumb blonde roles while still maintaining the air of innocence that helped make her a star. She even managed to become known as a Thighmaster queen without it tarnishing her image the way similar infomercials did to names like Cher. She fought so many battles, not just cancer, but from the industry, and survived the Hollywood machine that boots you off as soon as you forget your place.

She also had to play second fiddle to her brother. The scene where she reunites with Pete is lovely; that's about all I take out of the second season with Catharine.

Does anyone else feel like the Prince Albert story sounds much worse than it actually was? I am normally one to criticize the movie ripoff stories, especially all the changes ABC mandated around that time, but the story was fairly quick and gave Delia a number of vulnerable moments which Randall Edwards sold well. I don't think it was much sillier than, say, the faking blindness story. I have barely seen Patrick #4, but I will always have a soft spot for John Blazo. Interesting that Ilene had to keep Sarah under control. I don't remember them even working together very often in the six months or so they overlapped.

Piper's work as Catherine, especially in the first season before they lost focus with the character, was electric. I always think of the incredibly glamorous publicity shot with Piper and Joan Chen dressed to the nines, injecting style as the primetime soaps had become so garish in their dying years. She ran all over season 1, spreading wickedness, incredibly frank sexuality for a woman her age, and some real belly laughs (the scene where she leads the lodge convention-goers in some kind of weird dance to make it look like Leland is not having a psychotic breakdown is one of the show's best moments of dark humor). One of my all time favorite scenes on the show, or any show, was the moment near the end of season 1 where Catherine realizes that Pete, the husband she'd always looked down on, was the only one who had ever cared about her. Piper and Jack Nance could break your heart and build it back up again.

I know them best for their cover of "Now That We Found Love," but they clearly have such a deep legacy. Thanks for telling us about his passing.

Phyllis Coates Dead: Lois Lane Actress Was 96 – The Hollywood Reporter Very sad to hear of her passing away. Phyllis was probably my favorite Lois Lane.

Two missing Till Death Us Do Part episodes found - British Comedy Guide

Now that the story has opened up with Paul finding out about them and Byron's past being exposed, I'm more involved than I was. It's about middle for my list of stories (if I ever feel like it I was going to rank the stories so far).

Wait until you see her outfit on today's episode! I'm enjoying the show overall, I think it's gotten better after a somewhat questionable choice of stories to focus on for that first week (namely, the Toadie/Terese marriage and how it was handled), but I would agree with the Prospect Park comment, especially when it comes to the hotel. As one of the people who has no real knowledge of Mischa Barton beyond her tabloid travails (never watched much of OC), I haven't minded her in the role, but as the part starts to become more complicated you can see the flatness in the performance. I will say the new Byron is working more for me than he was initially, even if I still wish they'd managed to hang onto the first actor.

@Vee Thank you for shining more of a light on Keith Giffen. I don't have the full experiences with his work that you do, but I still remember reading through the Darkseid issues he and Paul Levitz created in the early '80s. The Legion were moribund for a very long time, but Giffen and Levitz gave them a sense of not only purpose, but of wonder, alongside an increasingly complex outline of their world. I think what I remember most about the Great Darkness issues are how well they used poor, long-maligned Supergirl, and how much they seemed to influence the tone taken in some of the Crisis - life and death stakes among bleak space rocks. I also have to give a lot of credit to Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis for what they did with the Justice League. As one of the people who enjoyed the disastrously received reboot with Vibe, Gypsy, Vixen, etc. the shift to the wacky humor wasn't entirely to my taste, but I appreciated the spotlight on lesser known characters and the shift to Europe and international waters. Their Justice League run felt very, very much on the nose for that time and place, yet without chasing the grimdark highs or event-mania that would go on to gut comics to their core in the '90s.

https://deadline.com/2023/10/anthony-hickox-dead-horror-director-of-waxwork-hellraiser-iii-was-64-1235568541/

Five of Tim Ballard’s Alleged Victims Have Filed a Lawsuit Against Him (vice.com)

@I Am A Swede You might enjoy this. Something else I think you'll genuinely enjoy.

I think there was just a photo, or glimpses in flashbacks near the end.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/07/lost-holy-grail-film-of-life-in-brazil-amazon-100-years-ago-resurfaces

I've read about some of the strikes (I think Walgreens workers walked off their jobs just a day or two ago) but have been guilty of not focusing more on it. It doesn't help that Twitter is now almost fully unreliable and that was one of my main sources of links due to how biased the news channels and pages are.

Thank you @Faulkner for gathering all this together I never would have seen otherwise.