When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.
Right right, because up to that point I had not been a viewer, and I didn't know alot about the show, it was all new to me and the cast members were wonderful!
The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing.
The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.
One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.
That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.
We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.
I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.
