One of the teachers in our high school, a Mr. Blake, was a former actor and knew Jonathan Frid (of TVs’s Dark Shadows) from those days. One day, Frid came to visit Mr. Blake at the school and to talk to his classes. My Humanities class with Mrs. Bertaccini met in one of the rooms …
[At CBS.com – Jonathan Frid, actor in original “Dark Shadows,”dies at 87] He was one of the greats, for certain! Sadly, this makes three fixtures of my Montana childhood and adolescence departed during the past two days—Dick Clark, Levon Helm, and now Jonathan Frid. Talk about leaving legacies! By the by, I’m …
[Ed. Note – On May 4, 2012 goth-inspired, iconoclastic film director Tim Burton is set to release a movie version of the beloved television series DARK SHADOWS which will star Johnny Depp, Chloë Grace Moretz, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Lee and many others. While longtime fans of the show are eager …