Happy Birthday Barnabas!

Today is Joanthan Frid's birthday. At the time, it just seemed so cool to suddenly have a vampire show up in a rather mediocre soap opera. Remembering racing home from school to catch the 3:30 showing still provokes a smile from me. I always wanted one of those half-cape coats that he wore. Frid managed to capture both tragedy and menace in his character. Of course, it was an incredibly cheesy little show; slow paced, repetitive plot, overuse of the same actors, etc. But for a year or two there, that was a neat program! (The movies weren't half bad, either).

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