CC33

Would you like to react to this message? Create an account in a few clicks or log in to continue.

CC33


5 posters

    Jonathan Frid – DARK SHADOWS Star Dead at 87

    Tony Marino
    Tony Marino
    …is a Global Moderator.
    …is a Global Moderator.


    Male
    Join date : 2010-01-31
    Location : New York
    Posts : 26786
    Rep : 607

    Sad Jonathan Frid – DARK SHADOWS Star Dead at 87

    Post by Tony Marino Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:16 am

    RIP Jonathan and thank you for Dark Shadows.

    Jonathan Frid – DARK SHADOWS Star Dead at 87 Frid4

    He made appearancs at fan conventions but after Dark Shadows went off the air in 1971, Jonathan Frid said goodbye to the cameras. He did star in Oliver Stone’s directorial debut SEIZURE in 1974 as a writer haunted by his demons (manifested by Martine Beswick and Herve Villachaize!) but reportedly Frid’s experience with SEIZURE was so unpleasant, he spent the rest of his career on the stage in Canada, his home. Jonathan Frid was of course the original Barnabas Collins on the ABC-TV soap Dark Shadows. He has a cameo appearance in the upcoming Johnny Depp/Tim Burton DARK SHADOWS feature film which opens in just over three weeks and I’m sure his legion of fans is looking forward to seeing him on the big screen. He posted at his website that he was hoping to attend the movie’s premiere and I’m sure he’ll be honored there. I just interviewed Kathryn Leigh Scott, his Dark Shadows TV costar last week and asked her how Frid was doing. Here’s an except about Frid from the interview (to be posted here Monday night):

    WAMG: Jonathon Frid is 88. How is he doing?

    KLS: He’s doing just fine for an 88 year old. He’s showing his age though.

    WAMG: I’ve always wondered this about Frid. When he left DARK SHADOWS in 1971, it seems like he could have become a big horror star along the lines of Vincent Price and I’m sure he was offered horror roles. But he chose to move to Canada and not make films (with the exception of Oliver Stone’s 1975 shocker SEIZURE). Do you know why?

    KLS: He just wasn’t interested. First of all, I don’t think he liked the genre at all. He came on DARK SHADOWS to do a Gothic drama and it became what it became but I think he really created something that was remarkable, but I don’t think the horror genre was something he cared about. He didn’t even want to do the second DARK SHADOWS movie (NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS) in 1972. He though the first one was too violent and he fought against that the whole time, he made no bones about that with Dan Curtis. He was very disappointed with HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS which was quite a successful film. It saved MGM the year it came out, it was a huge success.

    Jonathan Frid died on Friday the April 13th and his family just released the news last night. R.I.P. (finally) Barnabas

    http://wearemoviegeeks.com/2012/04/jonathan-frid-dark-shadows-star-dead-at-87/

    CeCe
    CeCe
    …is a Chamber DEITY.
    …is a Chamber DEITY.


    Join date : 2010-06-30
    Posts : 11962
    Rep : 326

    Sad Re: Jonathan Frid – DARK SHADOWS Star Dead at 87

    Post by CeCe Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:21 am

    Oh damn sad RIP
    Tony Marino
    Tony Marino
    …is a Global Moderator.
    …is a Global Moderator.


    Male
    Join date : 2010-01-31
    Location : New York
    Posts : 26786
    Rep : 607

    Sad Re: Jonathan Frid – DARK SHADOWS Star Dead at 87

    Post by Tony Marino Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:22 am

    It comes in 3's one more to go.
    Tony Marino
    Tony Marino
    …is a Global Moderator.
    …is a Global Moderator.


    Male
    Join date : 2010-01-31
    Location : New York
    Posts : 26786
    Rep : 607

    Sad Re: Jonathan Frid – DARK SHADOWS Star Dead at 87

    Post by Tony Marino Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:23 am

    Too bad he didn't live until the release of Dark Shadows next month, he made an appearance in the movie so it was his last role.
    CeCe
    CeCe
    …is a Chamber DEITY.
    …is a Chamber DEITY.


    Join date : 2010-06-30
    Posts : 11962
    Rep : 326

    Sad Re: Jonathan Frid – DARK SHADOWS Star Dead at 87

    Post by CeCe Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:26 am

    Tony Marino wrote:Too bad he didn't live until the release of Dark Shadows next month, he made an appearance in the movie so it was his last role.

    What a shame sad

    And yeah that "3's" thing is making me nervous. Not superstitious but it almost always happens that way.
    CeCe
    CeCe
    …is a Chamber DEITY.
    …is a Chamber DEITY.


    Join date : 2010-06-30
    Posts : 11962
    Rep : 326

    Sad Re: Jonathan Frid – DARK SHADOWS Star Dead at 87

    Post by CeCe Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:43 am

    Tony Marino wrote:It comes in 3's one more to go.

    Oh no...just had a thought. Bad feeling it's going to be Levon Helm sad
    Tony Marino
    Tony Marino
    …is a Global Moderator.
    …is a Global Moderator.


    Male
    Join date : 2010-01-31
    Location : New York
    Posts : 26786
    Rep : 607

    Sad Re: Jonathan Frid – DARK SHADOWS Star Dead at 87

    Post by Tony Marino Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:51 am

    CeCe wrote:

    Oh no...just had a thought. Bad feeling it's going to be Levon Helm sad

    Who it that?
    CeCe
    CeCe
    …is a Chamber DEITY.
    …is a Chamber DEITY.


    Join date : 2010-06-30
    Posts : 11962
    Rep : 326

    Sad Re: Jonathan Frid – DARK SHADOWS Star Dead at 87

    Post by CeCe Thu Apr 19, 2012 11:04 am

    Tony Marino wrote:

    Who it that?

    He's a musician close to that age. In his 70's. He was Bob Dylan's drummer in The Band. Then they went on their own. Eventually he went solo. He has a HUGE following. Came back to music after throat cancer. But apparently it's back again.


    Oh! And he played Loretta Lynn's father in "Coal Miner's Daughter". Had a part in "The Shooter" too. He did a few other movies.
    Tony Marino
    Tony Marino
    …is a Global Moderator.
    …is a Global Moderator.


    Male
    Join date : 2010-01-31
    Location : New York
    Posts : 26786
    Rep : 607

    Sad Re: Jonathan Frid – DARK SHADOWS Star Dead at 87

    Post by Tony Marino Thu Apr 19, 2012 11:15 am

    Well I hope he is not ill and hope he is NOT next.
    Suzi
    Suzi
    …is a Power Member.
    …is a Power Member.


    Female
    Join date : 2011-03-01
    Location : BC, Canada
    Posts : 1529
    Rep : 85

    Sad Re: Jonathan Frid – DARK SHADOWS Star Dead at 87

    Post by Suzi Thu Apr 19, 2012 11:47 am

    RIP Jonathan , much as I enjoyed Dark Shadows it probably type cast him and no actor likes that.
    Alan Smithee
    Alan Smithee
    ...is a 20G Chamber DIETY.
    ...is a 20G Chamber DIETY.


    Male
    Join date : 2010-09-03
    Location : 40º44’18.33”N 73º58’31.82”W
    Posts : 25792
    Rep : 381

    Sad Re: Jonathan Frid – DARK SHADOWS Star Dead at 87

    Post by Alan Smithee Thu Apr 19, 2012 1:37 pm

    That sucks. And not in a vampire way. It's a shame he couldn't have made it to the premier. I'll be very surprised if he's not enshrined in the end credits. It doesn't look too good for Robin Gibb either but hell...maybe Ted Nugent will be Al Gored by a wild boar. Actually, he is a wild bore.
    Cheaps
    Cheaps
    ...is a 20G Chamber DIETY.
    ...is a 20G Chamber DIETY.


    Female
    Join date : 2010-11-17
    Posts : 25876
    Rep : 252

    Sad Re: Jonathan Frid – DARK SHADOWS Star Dead at 87

    Post by Cheaps Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:02 am

    CeCe wrote:

    Oh no...just had a thought. Bad feeling it's going to be Levon Helm sad

    WOW! Unfortunately CeCe, your bad feeling turned out to be true!!

    Levon Helm, longtime drummer in The Band, dead at 71

    Jonathan Frid – DARK SHADOWS Star Dead at 87 2012-04-19T204255Z_2_CBRE83I1I3Y00_RTROPTP_2_HELM

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Levon Helm, the drummer for The Band whose twangy vocals brought a poignancy and earthiness to songs like "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "Up on Cripple Creek," died on Thursday at the age of 71 from cancer, his manager said.
    The three-time Grammy Award winner had been fighting throat cancer since 1998.
    "Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon," Helm's manager Barbara O'Brien said in a statement.
    "He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates and will be remembered by all he touched as a brilliant musician and a beautiful soul."
    Tributes immediately began pouring in from fans, popping up on Twitter at a fast rate.
    Although the cancer silenced Helm's crystal-clear tenor for a while, he strengthened his voice sufficiently to resume singing in 2004. He hosted a regular series of what he called "Midnight Ramble" concerts that often featured big-name stars at his home-studio in Woodstock, New York.
    In addition to singing, Helm played drums, mandolin and other string instruments in The Band, one of the most revered and influential rock groups to emerge from the 1960s. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, it played a brand of rustic rock that drew on country, blues and rhythm and blues and sounded quintessentially American - even though Helm was the only member not from Canada.
    Helm's daughter Amy, who sang in his latest band, and wife, Sandy, announced on Tuesday the he was in the final stage of his fight with cancer.
    "Thank you fans and music lovers who have made his life so filled with joy and celebration," they said on Facebook. "He has loved nothing more than to play, to fill the room up with music, lay down the back beat, and make the people dance! He did it every time he took the stage.
    BACKED UP DYLAN
    Helm was born to cotton farmers in 1940 and grew up near the community of Turkey Scratch, outside Helena, Arkansas, with the intention of being a musician. He was a teenager when he became the drummer for another Arkansas native, rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins.
    Hawkins took the group to Canada, where he added guitarist Robbie Robertson, bassist Rick Danko and keyboardists Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson to The Hawks. Eventually the four Canadians and Helm would split off.
    In 1965, Bob Dylan recruited them to back him up on his first U.S. "electric" tour, a raucous event strung over September 1965 to May 1966 that marked Dylan's transition from acoustic to rock 'n' roll and outraged his folkie fans.
    Helm was dismayed by the hostile reception and returned to Arkansas for a two-year hiatus. Eventually reunited with his band mates in 1968 and calling themselves simply The Band, they produced the landmark "Music From Big Pink," an album named for the house they rented near Woodstock.
    That was followed the next year by the "brown album" titled The Band. Viewed by most critics as their masterpiece, the album was steeped in old-time rural Americana and made heavy use of Helm's plaintive Southern drawl.
    The Band's greatest success came in the early and mid-1970s and, while they were not a huge commercial success, critics loved them. "Up on Cripple Creek," "The Weight" and the Civil War saga "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," also a hit for Joan Baez, were popular on FM radio stations of the time.
    Helm stayed with The Band through its 1976 farewell concert, which Martin Scorsese documented in his film "The Last Waltz." While the movie is regarded as perhaps the best rock 'n' roll documentary, Helm derided it and particularly Robertson, whom he bitterly accused of preening for the camera, unfairly claiming writing credits and trying to appear the leader of the group in which all had been equals.
    The estranged band mates appeared to make peace just days before Helm's death, when Robertson visited Helm in a New York hospital and later described him as "like an older brother" on Facebook.
    Following some solo albums, Helm reunited in 1983 with The Band, minus Robertson. Manuel committed suicide while they were on tour in 1986. The remaining members - Helm, Danko and Hudson - released the final Band album in 1998.
    Helm was diagnosed with throat cancer that year.
    He earned a spot on Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 greatest singers of all time. Jim James of the band My Morning Jacket wrote, "There is something about Levon Helm's voice that is contained in all of our voices. It is ageless, timeless and has no race. He can sing with such depth and emotion but he can also convey a good-old fun-time growl."
    In 2007, Helm released his first solo studio album in 25 years, "Dirt Farmer," which picked up a Grammy award for best traditional folk album. In 2009, he released "Electric Dirt," winning another Grammy in the new Americana category. In 2011, he won for "Ramble At The Ryman" for best Americana album.
    Helm also had a successful side career as an actor, using his aura of earthy dignity in movies such as "The Right Stuff" and "Coal Miner's Daughter," based on the life of country singer Loretta Lynn, in which he played her father.
    "Levon Helm will always hold a special place in my heart. He was as great of an actor as a musician," Lynn wrote on the official Loretta Lynn Facebook page. "For me watching him play the role of my daddy in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' is a memory I will always treasure."
    (Reporting by Jonathan Allen and Barbara Goldberg; Writing by Vicki Allen; Editing by Paul Thomasch and Cynthia Osterman)

    http://omg.yahoo.com/news/levon-helm-longtime-drummer-band-dies-71-192833474.html;_ylt=AjSe6vwizcaWGhxMKn6PMcYPpxx.;_ylu=X3oDMTNwa2I5NmRyBG1pdANNb2QgVGlsZSA2BHBrZwNhZDdkYzNiYS1iY2FkLTMxYjItOGJjNC1lNzE2MjdhNTY1NjEEcG9zAzEEc2VjA01lZGlhUGhvdG9UaWxlBHZlcgNjNWQxYTdjMy04YTZmLTExZTEtYWViZi0xNTZiNDMzZmM2ODM-;_ylg=X3oDMTFrM25vcXFyBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdAMEcHQDc2VjdGlvbnMEdGVzdAM-;_ylv=3
    CeCe
    CeCe
    …is a Chamber DEITY.
    …is a Chamber DEITY.


    Join date : 2010-06-30
    Posts : 11962
    Rep : 326

    Sad Re: Jonathan Frid – DARK SHADOWS Star Dead at 87

    Post by CeCe Fri Apr 20, 2012 9:54 am

    Cheaps wrote:

    WOW! Unfortunately CeCe, your bad feeling turned out to be true!!



    Oh no cries I'm so sorry to hear this.

    RIP
    Cheaps
    Cheaps
    ...is a 20G Chamber DIETY.
    ...is a 20G Chamber DIETY.


    Female
    Join date : 2010-11-17
    Posts : 25876
    Rep : 252

    Sad Re: Jonathan Frid – DARK SHADOWS Star Dead at 87

    Post by Cheaps Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:41 am

    CeCe wrote:

    Oh no cries I'm so sorry to hear this.

    RIP

    Not good to be right about these things. I don't know who this guy is, I just happen to see it on the Yahoo OMG page.

    RIP
    Tony Marino
    Tony Marino
    …is a Global Moderator.
    …is a Global Moderator.


    Male
    Join date : 2010-01-31
    Location : New York
    Posts : 26786
    Rep : 607

    Sad Re: Jonathan Frid – DARK SHADOWS Star Dead at 87

    Post by Tony Marino Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:57 am

    RIP

    Sponsored content


    Sad Re: Jonathan Frid – DARK SHADOWS Star Dead at 87

    Post by Sponsored content


      Current date/time is Mon Nov 25, 2024 1:08 am