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Joan BennettKatherine Leigh Scottaren’t lusty temptresses —they’re tense, frigid, pathetic creatures,”Vampire ExcitesWives, Young SetBy Richard K, Shull(Special to lawa TV Magazine)NEW YORK, N. Y.-WHEN THE MASH NOTES from housewives and stubby-pencilled fan letters from the mini-boppers began to arrive by the bagful, it wasn’t exactly the sort of attention the 44-year-old Shakespearean actor expected.But as he pursued his life’s dream of becoming a comfortably tweedy drama instructor on an ivy-covered campus, how was he to know he’d become the only full-time practicing vampire outside Transylvania.Jonathan Frid, who much like his television character ofBarnabas Collins, has been caught up in forces beyond hiscontrol,“It’s incomprehensible,” he said, as he told of what has been happening to him and to the kinkiest soap opera on the air, “Dark Shadows/'Each afternoon housewives turn to the ABC network tosuffer along with Frid in his character of Barnabas, a morose fellow who has been a vampire these past 175 years.The ladies hold naught but sympathy when poor Barnabasis impelled to bare his out sized canine teeth and satisfy hishunger for feminine blood.That’s half the “Dark Shadows storv.*The other is the increasing popularity with the 6 to 13-year-olds who dash home from school each day to see who's going to get it in the neck.I CAME on the show last April, it was an adultsoap opera,” Frid said. “The producer called it a Gothic soap opera. But now it seems to be getting younger and younger.“The kids like the terror, the women seem to sympathize with the vampire, and for a lot of people, it’s the campy thing to do. Tallulah Bankhead wouldn’t miss it.”
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Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Sun, Apr 28, 1968
Page 120
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Boyd C.
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