One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.
I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.
We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.
That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.
The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.
The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing.
