Monday, April 09, 2012

Television and Cinema Verities # 14



"Youngsters today are looking for a new morality.  And so is Barnabas...He hates what he is and he's in terrible agony.  Just like the kids today, he's confused, lost, screwed up, and searching for something."

- actor Jonathan Frid discusses Dark Shadows' pop-culture hero Barnabas at the height of the series popularity in 1970.  From Newsweek: "Turned on Vampire," April 20, 1970, page 107.

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