#Nathan Crothers

[whatithinkaboutdarkshadows]

Episode 459: The means to destroy 'em

Like every episode of Dark Shadows, this one begins with a voiceover by a member of the cast. Unlike all the preceding voiceovers, this one is delivered by a man. Thayer David does the honors. We open in the drawing room of the great house of Collinwood. For the first time in months, Barnabas Collins is there. Barnabas died and rose as a vampire in January, and has been concealing his existence…

View On WordPress

#barnabas collins #dark shadows #dark shadows before i die #first time not the last #genuinely good episode #joel crothers #jonathan frid #joshua collins #louis edmonds #nathan forbes #opening voiceover #rebecca shaw #silver bullets #thayer david #the eagle tavern

[terrorpenned]

TERRORPENNED ––> WIDOWSHILL.

i do a lot of dark shadows posting. sometimes i write.

multimuse featuring gothic media, with an emphasis on the television series dark shadows and disney theme parks. LASCIATE OGNI SPERANZA, VOI CH'ENTRATE. this blog features regular content like murder, suicide, and cannibalism, as well as a narrative background of infidelity, period homophobia, questionable consent, and incest (among other staples of the gothic genre). if any of this is not your speed, this blog may not be for you.

sideblog to emcads (follows back from here, etc). graphic by my beloved @finalslay banner template by @gentlesource. icon by @flameandignite.

typical rp etiquette encouraged. personal blogs, I ask that you don't rb dossiers and ic writing, but other than that, go wild. I'm also liveblogging my ds watch through here, posts will be tagged "ds liveblogging." for convenience <;3

*a special note regarding roger & victoria: this is one of my main ships on this blog & I do want to make it clear I don't write her as elizabeth's daughter. I have a longer write up in v's dossier, but the tldr is i follow the hanscombe storyline with some canon divergences.

DARK SHADOWS - high activity THE LOVER. josette dupres / dark shadows. dossier. tag. ic. fc: vittoria puccini. THE GOVERNESS. victoria winters / dark shadows. dossier. tag. ic. fc: alexandra moltke. alt: diana s.ilvers. arc: mrs. collins. arc: mrs. de winter. THE SAILOR. lieutenant nathan forbes / dark shadows. dossier. tag. fc: joel crothers. alt fc: dan stevens. THE MATRIARCH. elizabeth collins stoddard / dark shadows. dossier. tag. ic. fc: joan bennett. alt fc: helena bonham carter. THE PRODIGAL. roger collins / dark shadows. dossier. tag. ic. fc: louis edmonds. alt fc: jack davenport.

DISNEY PARKS - medium activity THE STARLET. magdalena temor / tower of terror / oc. dossier. tag. fc: gene tierney THE BRIDE. constance arceneaux / the haunted mansion. dossier. tag. fc: dominique mcelligott THE BYRONIC. captain bartholomew gore / the haunted mansion & potc / dossier. tag. ic. fc: toby stephens

OTHER - low activity THE BAKER. nellie lovett / sweeney todd 2023 revival. dossier. tag. fc: cate blanchett. THE SCHOLAR. edith cushing / crimson peak. dossier. tag. fc: mia wasikowska. THE SONGBIRD. cora dawson / the devil's carnival. dossier. tag. fc: lyndon smith. THE PROPRIETRESS. eleanor guthrie. black sails. tag.

NAV edits & art. ds aesthetic tag. memes. rog&v / barnabas&v / burke&v / maxim&v / j&jos / b&jos / r&l&b platonic: rog&liz / rog&carolyn / v&david

[courtleymanor]

[id: screenshot of scene from the original dark shadows gothic soap opera of nancy barrett as millicent collins and joel crothers as nathan forbes standing together in the collinwood drawing room in 1795 as the former gazes out the open window up at the light in the tower room and the latter hovers behind her half in shadow regarding her with barely concealed malevolence. according to the closed captions millicent is saying "there is a witch in this house." /end id]

#dark shadows #dark shadows screenshot #original dark shadows #collinwood #screenshots #vampires #witches #werewolves

[sammysdewysensitiveeyes]

Joking aside, I really thought the 1795 storyline on Dark Shadows was overall great. It drags out a bit near the end (as is the nature of daily soap operas), but things start happening pretty quickly in the beginning and continue to happen.

I love all the actors getting to jump into new roles. Nancy Barret takes that nervous flightiness that Carolyn has in the early episodes (because she grew up basically trapped in a creepy mansion with her recluse mother) and dials it up to eleven for Millicent, who is prim and proper where Carolyn is rebellious. Katherine Leigh Scott plays an upperclass Josette who is still as bright and kind as Maggie. Louis Edmonds retains Roger's wittiness but plays a much more responsible and stern family patriarch. Joel Crothers goes from honest and good-hearted fisherman Joe Haskell to the "charming" rogue Nathan Forbes who gradually reveals himself to be a ruthless piece of shit. Thayer David goes from playing a gruff family servant who is murderously loyal to....playing a gruff family servant who is murderously loyal, but is somehow much more likable and sympathetic than Matthew Morgan, probably because Ben Stokes is not menacing our heroine Vicky.

I think there are some genuinely good arcs, like the development of Naomi and Joshua Collins. Naomi starts out ineffectual and nursing a drinking problem, but develops the strength to stand up to Nathan and protect Daniel, much like Liz protects David. Joshua gradually softens and shows some real human feelings other than being angry all the time. Ben Stokes repeatedly proves his loyalty to Barnabas even after Barnabas's transformation. The introduction of Angelique, who will remain one of the series' best and most interesting characters.

And of course, there is the gradual redeeming of Barnabas Collins, who starts out as a seemingly kind and decent fellow. I think it's especially interesting that Barnabas shows such kindness to family servant Ben Stokes, even teaching him to read and write, in sharp contrast to his treatment of Willie. Vampire Barnabas does become much colder, threatens Ben and even starts to strangle him a few times, but still never shows him the same violence and contempt that he has for Willie. Of course, when we go back to the present and pull Willie out of the mental hospital, Barnabas will get.....a little nicer to him, or at least less openly hostile (which is easy to do when Willie has his memory scrambled and is more cooperative). We also see genuine love between Barnabas and Josette, even though his earlier story about him and Josette ("I loved her, but she ran from me") made him sound like a creepy stalker after his uncle's wife. It doesn't help that he's trying to brainwash both Maggie and Vicky at the time. Instead, past Barnabas is the victim of his own creepy stalker, Angelique, who is willing to curse him, kill people, and threaten his sister to force him to marry her. And vampire Barnabas gets set up against despicable antagonists that we can root against, like Reverend Trask and Nathan Forbes.

I think it mostly works to give Barnabas a softer and more sympathetic image, while still letting him be a vaguely menacing figure in the present, still evil enough to do interesting things and drive the story, but not so evil that he has to be killed off.

I also love some of the parallels, like Ben Stokes protecting Vicky by hiding her in the same secret room where Matthew Morgan (same actor) held her hostage. I think about past Josette firmly believing that Vicky is the witch, then Josette's ghost protecting her in the future, like an apology. And 1795 also has a "con man" story running alongside Barnabas's supernatural story, mostly independently until the stories intersect - much like Barnabas and Jason McGuire in the present.

Also, Vicky got to shoot a guy, which was pretty rad.

#dark shadows

[h0lygh0stlings]

Everytime I am reminded of Nathan Forbe's existence and his lil evil, gay self I just want to rewatch the 1795 ARC so friggin fast😔💞

#dark shadows #nathan forbes #[hes an evil lil stinker but i love Joel crothers and i jus t love him😩😩💓 #[HIM AND THE TRASK INTERACTIONSS S👁👁💞 THE main reason why i rewatch wOO #[evil little men🗣😤😤

[barnabascollins]

✨ hey it’s a hate crime to be that pretty ✨ stop ✨

#I hate his ass but lOok at him #Nathan not Joel Joel’s a Saint #dark shadows #1795 #Joel Crothers #Nathaniel Forbes #Nathan Forbes #lieutenant forbes #icons #ds icons #made these to keep from thinking about spn

[collinsportmaine]

Suki Welles married Lt. Nathan Forbes on April 8, 1792. Their union wasn’t happy and they separated but did not divorce. The one thing they had in common was they were both gold-diggers - eager to gain a fortunes, and they would do anything to get it. They lived apart and apparently did not honor their wedding vow to be faithful.

In 1795, when Nathan had spent time in Collinsport, Suki sought him out to collect money he owed her. When Suki arrived in the coastal Maine town she learned that husband planned to marry Millicent Collins.

She decided to posed as Nathan’s sister and blackmailed him in order to keep her secret.

Nathan and Suki decided to meet at the Old Collins mansion House to strike a deal. But instead, Suki discovered one of the most evil and dangerous secrets of the Collins family. She paid for this with her life.

When Nathan arrived, with her last breaths Suki told him who attacked her. Nathan would use thus information to manipulate and blackmail others. In the end he suffered the same fate.

#mothers day #1795 storyline #suki forbes #lt nathan forbes #joel crothers #millicent collins #nancy barrett

[frankenpagie]

3.31.19

#film #letterboxd #watched #one flew over the cuckoo's nest #milos forman #jack nicholson #louise fletcher #will sampson #william redfield #brad dourif #sydney lassick #christopher lloyd #danny devito #marya small #scatman crothers #nathan george

[100gayicons]

Joel Crothers (1941-1985)

Joel Crothers was a New York actor who worked on stage and in daytime soap operas.

As a teen, he appeared on Broadway in “The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker” (1954). Then 12 years later he replaced Robert Redford in “Barefoot in the Park”.

While performing nights in the Neil Simon comedy, he worked days on the gothic soap opera “Dark Shadows”. That where I know him best - as the ruggedly good looking fisherman Joe Haskell; and the villainous Lt. Nathan Forbes (who was also ruggedly handsome).

He later appeared on “Secret Storm”, “Somerset”, and “Edge of Night”.

Crother was openly gay among friends and fellow actors, but he never publicly came out. It’s worth pointing out that he costarred with Harvey Fierstein in the original off-Broadway production of “Torch Song Trilogy” - a breakthrough play about homosexuals. He played Fierstein’s “very handsome.” bisexual lover. Crothers' soap opera popularity was credited with drawing early audiences to the play.

After being selected to appearing in a new soap opera, “Santa Barbara” he learned he had AIDS. Joel Crothers acquired AIDS related lymphoma and died November 1985, At the age of 44.

#gay icons #Joel crothers #dark shadows #Joe Haskell #kathryn leigh scott #torch song trilogy #harvey fierstein #Estelle Getty #barefoot in the park #Joan van ark #celebrity birthday

[katewalton]

Books I read in 2017

In 2017, I finally reached my book goal! I’ve been aiming to read 75 books a year for the past few years but have never quite made it.

I read 79 books in 2017, including 55 by women and 33 by people of colour (I think). I try to read diversely so I hear from a wide range of viewpoints that I may not encounter in my day-to-day life.

Overall favourite fiction book was Han Kang’s Human Acts, and favourite non-fiction book was Janine di Giovanni’s The Morning They Came for Us. The book I enjoyed the least was Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, which I found basically useless and even offensive.

As always, favourites are bolded.

Jodi Picoult - Small Great Things Deborah Levy - Hot Milk Susan Faludi - Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women Nathan Hill - The Nix Louise Doughty - Black Water Audre Lorde - Sister Outsider Laura Jane Grace - Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout Elizabeth Strout - My Name is Lucy Barton Roxane Gay - Difficult Women Benjamin Law - Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East Ottessa Moshfegh - Eileen Colson Whitehead - Underground Railroad Manjula Martin - Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living Jhumpa Lahiri - In Other Words Janine di Giovanni - The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria Stan Grant - The Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming (Quarterly Essay #64) Ali Smith - Autumn Oka Rusmini - Earth Dance Han Kang - Human Acts Tim Crothers - The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster Margaret Atwood - The Heart Goes Last Anand Gopal - No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes Andi Zeisler - We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement Matt Taibbi - Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus Alyssa Mastromonaco - Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House Balli Kaur Jaswal - Inheritance Brit Bennett - The Mothers Emily Ruskovich - Idaho Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay - Panty Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash V.E. Schwab - A Darker Shade of Magic Mina Holland - The Edible Atlas: Around the World in Thirty-Nine Cuisines Ann Ang - Bang My Car Prabda Yoon - The Sad Part Was Julia Baird - Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire Laura Bates - Everyday Sexism Ayobami Adebayo - Stay With Me Mahita Vas - Rain Tree Naomi Alderman - The Power Ta-Nehisi Coates - Between the World and Me Mohsin Hamid - Exit West Angie Thomas - The Hate U Give V.E. Schwab - A Gathering of Shadows Max Lane - Indonesia and Not, Poems and Otherwise: Anecdotes Scattered Angela Y. Davis - Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Wesley Lowery - They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement Jill Filipovic - The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness Lijia Zhang - Lotus Lynsey Addario - It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War Granta - 112: Betrayal Irena Cristalis - Independent Women: The Story of Women's Activism in East Timor Chandra Talpade Mohanty - Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity Amanda McClelland - Emergencies Only: An Australian nurse's journey through natural disasters, extreme poverty, civil wars and general chaos Gary Younge - Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives Benjamin Law - Moral Panic 101: Equality, Acceptance and the Safe Schools Scandal (Quarterly Essay #67) Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend Jane Harper - Force of Nature Mark Manson - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life Michael Vatikiotis - Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia Sofie Laguna - The Choke Hwang Jungeun - One Hundred Shadows Rebecca Solnit - The Mother of All Questions Bandi - The Accusation Angela Saini - Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story Jesmyn Ward - Sing, Unburied, Sing Geordie Williamson (ed.) - The Best Australian Essays 2016 Celeste Ng - Everything I Never Told You Fuchsia Dunlop - Shark's Fin And Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China Balli Kaur Jaswal - Sugarbread Han Kang - The White Book Marwa al-Sabouni - The Battle for Home: The Vision of a Young Architect in Syria Dina Nayeri - Refuge Svetlana Alexievich - Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

#books #books I read

[whatithinkaboutdarkshadows]

Episode 443: Masculine details

Naval officer/ sleazy operator Nathan Forbes seemed to have lost his best chance at getting rich quick when his fiancée, fluttery heiress Millicent Collins, discovered that he was already married when they got engaged. Since then, he has figured out that Millicent’s second cousin, Barnabas Collins, did not go to England as the family has been telling everyone, but that he is still lurking about…

View On WordPress

#a funny thing happened on the way to the forum #barnabas collins #charlotte fairchild #closing miscellany #craig slocum #dark shadows #dark shadows before i die #dennis patrick #gazebo #intentional comedy #jason mcguire #joel crothers #millicent collins #mrs acilius #nancy barrett #nathan forbes #noah gifford #willie loomis

[hrpodcast]

EPISODE 145 SUPPLEMENTAL: One of the Boys

That this not only starred baby young versions of Nathan Lane and Dana Carvey but also living prunes like Rooney and SCATMAN CROTHERS never ceases to delight the most morbid part of my brain. Bonus observation: I adore the awful haircuts Lane and Carvey are rocking in these clips. These poor guys have no clue what their careers are going to be like and I genuinely love the desperation on display here.

#How Rude #How Rude Podcast #Mickey Rooney #Nathan Lane #Dana Carvey #One of the Boys

[artistsmovingimageni]

Image: The One With All The Subtitles, On Repeat 2016 Nathan Crothers

AMINI In Conversation - 3 emerging artists present their films R-Space Gallery, Lisburn Saturday 4th February 2017 3 - 5 pm Free event Rosemary McMillen graduated from Ulster University in 2016 BA (Hons) Fine Art and has embarked on an MFA at the renamed Belfast School of Art. She describes herself as an ethnographer, field worker and observer, collecting digital imagery and sound recordings from the natural environment on the Ards Peninsula where she lives, and on her frequent travels abroad.  Through the use of post production editing her work aims to explore the relationship between reality, perception and social disengagement.

Puffin Meadow, 2016, 1 min Death is Elsewhere, 2016, 2 min Geyser, 2016, 3 min

Nathan Crothers is an artist based in Belfast, currently studying his Masters in Fine Art at the University of Ulster.  His current work investigates the potential of moving image within the white cube environment.  Challenging how this approach to image is constructed, encountered and interpreted. The work aims to offer alternative ways of experiencing narrative beyond the more passive-viewing conventions of cinema and theatre. Within his work he often appropriates popular culture, specifically using film, television and web media, as a vehicle to explore ideas of authorship and copyright. His work critiques institutions, political systems, and social and cultural hierarchies, questioning the complacency of how the world is viewed.

Untitled (Painted Room), 2016, 10 min The One With All The Subtitles, On Repeat, 2016, 21 min

Myrid Carten graduated from BA Fine Art & History of Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2014. Her practice includes moving image, photography, public engagement incentives, site-specific screenings and installations. Obsession and rupture are reoccurring concerns within her arts practice.Do contemporary mythologies of the self, popular culture and collective memory connect or distance us? What types of stories enfold in our drives for family, home, love and beauty?

Portrait of the Craftsman, 2014, 6 min Landscape of Bealtaine, 2014, 4 min I’ll Tell ye a True Story, 2013, 7 min

[thesnootyushers]

“With my sunglasses on, I’m Jack Nicholson. Without them, I’m fat and 60.”

Happy Birthday Jack Nicholson! One of the film industries most iconic stars turns 80 this week and he has stamped a legacy of quality that few, if any, will be able to match. To celebrate this legend of cinema, we take a look at 5 of his most iconic roles.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)

This is my favourite of all time for many reasons, but the biggest reason is the acting. It’s mind blowing to look back and see this film not only starred Jack Nicholson, but also alongside him Brad Dourif (Child’s Play) Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future 1-3) Danny DeVito (L.A. Confidential), and Scatman Crothers (The Shining) amongst a few others. Though it was Louise Fletcher who stole the show as the contemptible Nurse Ratched, Jack Nicholson is just as phenomenal as R.P. McMurphy. He just about displays every quality he would come to be revered for during the film, a lovable rogue who upsets the apple cart with his charm and zeal for mischief. Then as the film wears on he becomes worn, frustrated and angered leading him on a path to his eventual fate. It’s a performance with such an arc and array of emotion you don’t see it often, and even when you do it’s not as good his Nicholson’s performance.

A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner, 1992)

This is one of my all time favourite films.  I can recite it, almost verbatum.  Jack Nicolson only appears in 3 scenes but his shadow is cast throughout the whole film.  Col. Nathan R. Jessup is a hard ass, career soldier, larger than life in every way and no other actor could bring him to life the way Nicolson did.  There is a brilliant documentary on the dvd, where Rob Reiner tells a story of how Nicolson went all out on every take, even when they were shooting other actors.  When told he didn’t need to as he wasn’t in the shot, he said he loved the material so much, he couldn’t help it.  Aaron Sorkin’s script is wonderful and Nicolson delivers it with such a passion and relish.  “You want the truth?” Well, this is a great film with an amazing supporting turn from a powerhouse performer. Unforgettable.

Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)

Damn, this film is just so cool.  Brilliantly shot, it remains Roman Polanski’s finest hour.  Widley considered to be one of the greatest screenplays ever written, Chinatown is a leading example of modern film noir.  Here, Nicolson is J.J. Gittes, a private investogator  haunted by his past who is drawn into a murky plot surrounding a femme fatale, land deals and dark secrets.  The film is just stunning and has aged really well.  Nicolson is great, as he always is, but his on screen chemistry with Faye Dunaway really sizzles and the final reveal still has a impact 40 years on.  I wrote a piece last year about cinema’s relationship with the P.I. (check it out here and here) in which Chinatown features heavily.  One of the films the term classic was made for.

The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)

When it comes to cinema, there are some scenes that are referenced over and over again. The shower scene in Psycho. The Vader/Skywalker reveal. And of course… “Here’s Jonny” from The Shining. The wild eyed, volatile, psychologically broken Jack Torrance is one of the most memorable performances in the history of cinema. However, it’s the quieter moments that make this one of my favourite films. A film that was nominated for two Golden Raspberries on its release, although this is a horror film, it is really a Kubrick film, basically defying genre. The slow pace and prolonged may have dulled the stronger moral elements of Stephen King’s original novel, but it allowed Nicholson to deliver an all round performance for the ages.

Batman (Tim Burton, 1989)

When the actor playing the villain over shadowed the titled character, you know you have something in said villain. Probably one of his most memorable roles, especially among the general fans. Nicholson combined the camp and colour of Cesar Romeo  and blended it with his own sinister ferocity to create gangster Jack Napier, who becomes the Clown Prince of Crime. What made this so special to me was it adapted the origin story one of my favourite Graphic Novels ‘The Killing Joke’ By Allan Moore  and adds a few exciting twists. Nicholson did brilliantly, I always found myself routing for the Joker, unlike other incantations that would follow which is purely down to the wit and stellar acting of Nichlson. and no I have never “danced with the devil in the pale moonlight”… it really does sound good.

What are your favourite Nicholson roles? The Departed? Mars Attacks? Little Shop of Horrors?

Until next time, stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold. See you soonish.

  Like what you’ve read? LIKE us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and look us up on Instagram!

5 Iconic Jack Nicholson Roles "With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60."

#a few good men #batman #chinatown #Jack Nicholson #joker #one flew over the cuckoo&039;s nest #the batman #The Joker #the shining

[collinsportmaine]

When he was introduced, Lt. Nathan Forbes was a good friend to Barnabas Collins. But as members of the family began to die, he shows his true colors. Realizing that distance cousins Millicent and Daniel Collins would inherit the family fortune, Forbes sets his sights on marrying Millicent. Never mind that he was already married.

He discovered a dark and dangerous Collins secret, and revealed it to Naomi Collins - leading to her death.

Records differ on how Forbes died, but he was ultimately punished for his crimes.

#dark shadows #1795 storyline #nathan forbes #joel crothers #barnabas collibs #naomi collins #millicent collins

[visual-poetry]

by nathan crothers

#nathan crothers #art #poster