Letters Column: Ben Can Bite Me Any Time!
March/30/1991 Filed in: TV Guide
TV Guide
March 30 - June 5, 1991
Vol. 39, No. 13
Page 41
Letters Column
Ben Can Bite Me Any Time!
For Marvin Kitman to compare Ben Cross's interpretation of vampire Barnabas Collins to Jonathan Frid's and find Cross's lacking in "campy fun" is like comparing Michael Keaton's Batman to Adam West's and finding him lacking in POW! WHAM! and CRUNCH! If what you are looking for in the new Dark Shadows, Mr. Kitman, is a remake of the after-school, cartoonish soap of your youth, then Ben Cross and the entire production of today's series are indeed frightfully overqualified ["Review: Shadows Doesn't Have Enough Bite," March 2].
-- Julie Stewart-Pollack
Boulder, Colo.
[Stewart-Pollack wasn't alone in writing in defense of NBC's new Dark Shadows serial and, in particular, Ben Cross's interpretation of the lusty vampire Barnabas Collins. At press time, the mail was running 100 to 2 in favor of the new production. -- Ed.]
March 30 - June 5, 1991
Vol. 39, No. 13
Page 41
Letters Column
Ben Can Bite Me Any Time!
For Marvin Kitman to compare Ben Cross's interpretation of vampire Barnabas Collins to Jonathan Frid's and find Cross's lacking in "campy fun" is like comparing Michael Keaton's Batman to Adam West's and finding him lacking in POW! WHAM! and CRUNCH! If what you are looking for in the new Dark Shadows, Mr. Kitman, is a remake of the after-school, cartoonish soap of your youth, then Ben Cross and the entire production of today's series are indeed frightfully overqualified ["Review: Shadows Doesn't Have Enough Bite," March 2].
-- Julie Stewart-Pollack
Boulder, Colo.
[Stewart-Pollack wasn't alone in writing in defense of NBC's new Dark Shadows serial and, in particular, Ben Cross's interpretation of the lusty vampire Barnabas Collins. At press time, the mail was running 100 to 2 in favor of the new production. -- Ed.]