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Showing posts with label Jonathan Frid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jonathan Frid. Show all posts
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
Movie Resurrects New Horror Cycle; Jonathan Frid's Vampire Role Results In Erotic Overtones
The Daily Times-News, August 22, 1970
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Finally a movie review which isn't fluff and a follow-up piece discussing the erotic overtones of vampirism! The write up on House of Dark Shadows delves briefly into the trends with the paranormal in Hollywood and then gives a brief synopsis of what the movie is all about without getting hypercritical of the genre or over-analyzing it. It then segues into the eroticism of the vampire legend while mentioning both the show and the aforementioned movie. The short bit at the end about Frid's bat conservancy efforts only adds to the spread.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Mothers And Kids Love The Vampire
The Tuscaloosa News, August 4, 1968
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When Jonathan Frid joined the cast of DS in April of 1967 nobody could have foreseen that the struggling Gothic drama would burgeon into the number one daytime program and remain a cult favorite nearly fifty years later. The audience jumped 62% as fan letters poured in at a rate of nearly 1,000 per day with the great majority aimed at Barnabas Collins. The popularity of the show also spawned a merchandise buying frenzy with board games, masks, puzzles and comic books among others being consumed like candy by grade school kids. That wasn't the entire picture of the viewing audience though as women also flocked to the melodrama for the buttoned down and erotic romantic underpinnings of the lovelorn vampire's travails.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Jonathan Frid
The Mount Airy News, October 31, 1986
A short blurb about Frid's appearance at the 4th DS Festival which took place in Newark, New Jersey October of 1986.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Jonathan Frid Started Trend To Vampires
The Gettysburg Times, January 3, 1969
Another throwaway article that gives some biographical information but little else in the way of mentioning anything beyond his Shakespearean chops and his sudden rise to stardom.
Friday, September 14, 2012
Jonathan Frid Ovedrawn
The Mid Cities Daily News, August 28, 1968
Haha. Bangs and fangs. That's a good one. And so was Jonathan Frid. This article wasn't so good though and I'm not sure what purpose it really serves other than to get in on the DS mania which was everywhere in 1968. I'm glad to oblige them 44 years later.
Saturday, August 4, 2012
'Dark Shadows' Vamp Resurrects His Career With Tales Of Horror
The Herald-Journal, October 20, 1989
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You've been Frid-undated! I suppose that much of the point with any DS endeavor is reveling in the creature called Barnabas Collins. But as Frid explains in this article it was a battle for him to fend off Barnabas and once again become Jonathan.
He didn't hate the show but also didn't enjoy the typecast anchor tied around his neck like a choking hairshirt half-removed and suffocating his career. In fact, he says, he didn't have much of a career after the show and for several years ran from it only to eventually soften his stance and embrace the mystique that the show, and especially his character, generated.
That he ran a successful one man show for years is old hat. That he mixed in horror with the dramatic and comedic roles is well-known too. What is most likely lost from the endeavor are the specific dates, time and places. This expose places him at the University of South Carolina in Spartanburg at 8PM on October 20, 1989. That night he performed such literary renderings as Poe's "The Cask and Amontillado" and Stephen King's "The Man Who Loved Flowers."
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
'Dark Shadows' Emerges Again With Video Releases
The Boca Raton News, January 26, 1990
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While the release of the DS catalogue in monthly installations in 1990 was big news for fans of the show it was tedious old hat for Jonathan Frid. He had waded through years of media and fan frenzy and was long-settled into his career as an ensemble and solo stage presence. Maybe he was really bored with the whole Shadows phenomena or just wasn't getting a cut of the $79.98 price tag on the 4 cassette 20 episode box sets. Either way he continued to do what he loved most by acting out his one man shows for both paying and non-paying customers in college towns around the US. The shows were appropriately titled "Fools and Fiends," "Fridiculousness" and "Shakesperian Portraits."
Thursday, July 19, 2012
From Shakespeare To Fame As Ghoul
The Big Spring Herald, October 25, 1970
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This is merely another House of Dark Shadows mention simply to get DS in the newspaper sort of article with nothing new in the writing to concern the rabid fan. But like most of these it's fun to see them in an old newspaper seeing as the digital age has killed anything of value in the written word department.
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