{"id":5808,"date":"2007-12-29T21:04:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T04:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/29\/5808\/"},"modified":"2007-12-29T21:04:20","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T04:04:20","slug":"reversal-of-dark-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5808","title":{"rendered":"Reversal of Dark Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>We were watching Reversal of Fortune, the 1990 movie with Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons…<\/p>\n

Here’s what a lunatic Diane is: at about 1 minute and 54 seconds, she notices a large house in the opening helicopter shot looks very familiar– shot along the Newport, RI coast, she notices one of the gargantuan houses is “Collinwood” from Dark Shadows. Have I mentioned she’s seen all 1200+ episodes multiple times?<\/p>\n

This gets better… there is actually a deeper connection between Dark Shadows and Reversal of Fortune. Reversal of Fortune is about Klaus von Bulow<\/a> (played by Jeremy Irons), who was accused in the 1980s of murdering his wife Sunny von Bulow<\/a> (played by Glenn Close). Jeremy Irons won an Oscar for his performance…<\/p>\n

The real Klaus von Bulow was having an affair with a young actress, played in the movie by Julie Hagerty, who most people know as the stewardess from the Airplane! movies. But… in real life the young actress was Alexandra Isles… formerly Alexandra Moltke<\/a>. Who played Victoria Winters on Dark Shadows.<\/p>\n

VICTORIA: My name is Victoria Winters. A grim pall decends on Collinwood, and this morning I’ve convinced my boyfriend to inject his wife with insulin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>So, based on the helicopter shot, we used Google maps to pinpoint the exact location of Collinwood<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are actually other crazy connections in this movie, which I’ve only half followed… Fisher Stevens has a small part in this movie, along with his mentor, Uta Hagen<\/a>. Hagen was at one point married to Jose Ferrer<\/a>, who in turn was married later to Rosemary Clooney<\/a>… which connects them all to George Clooney.<\/p>\n

So, just in case you are playing a particularly wicked version of the Kevin Bacon game, and you need to connect George Clooney to Dark Shadows, there you go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were watching Reversal of Fortune, the 1990 movie with Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons… Here’s what a lunatic Diane is: at about 1 minute and 54 seconds, she notices a large house in the opening helicopter shot looks very familiar– shot along the Newport, RI coast, she notices one of the gargantuan houses is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}