IS RUDOLF MARTIN THE NEW BELA LUGOSI?

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May 192012
 

Rudolf Martin as Dracula in BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

German actor Rudolf Martin will star as Bela Kiss in a German vampire flick called BELA KISS:PROLUGUE, due to be released on 4 October, which makes the case that Hungarian serial killer Bela Kiss was a vampire. Martin will have a supporting role in the 2013 film VAMPIRES OF HOLLYWOOD, which will star Marilyn Manson and Malcolm McDowell.

Bela Lugosi as Dracula in 1931

Martin played Anton Lang (not a vampire) on ALL MY CHILDREN when that character married Kendall Hart (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar at the time) in 1994. Then, in 2000, Martin was Dracula in Episode #80 of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, and in that same year he was Vlad Dracula the Impaler in the TV movie DARK PRINCE:THE TRUE STORY OF DRACULA.

In 2007 he was Christian Ellis in the premier episode of MOONLIGHT, a short-lived vampire series on CBS.

Martin as Vlad the Impaler

Rudolf Martin and Sarah Michelle Gellar in ALL MY CHILDREN (1994)

Like Bela Lugosi, vampire roles account for only a small percentage of his work (Lugosi was in a total of 113 films, including NINOTCHKA. Only 5 of his films involved vampires.), but it seems that Martin might be making a conscious effort at becoming the new Lugosi. I mean, starring in a film with BELA in the title (‘prologue’ might indicate that a series is in the offing) can’t be an accidental choice.

WHAT KILLED RINGER?

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May 172012
 

The ill-fated Gemma (Tara Summers) gets combative at a party on RINGER

What was responsible for the demise of RINGER, Sarah Michelle Gellar‘s nighttime soap on the CW? A few things leap to mind.

Malcolm Ward (Mike Colter) was Bridget's only real relationship.

  • Bridget Kelly, the twin who was the show’s main focus, was a bit hard to believe. How likely is it that she would fall madly in love with Andrew while pretending to be his wife? Could she really fit into Siobhan’s lifestyle so comfortably, making so few social faux pas? Why didn’t she run off with Malcolm (Mike Colter), or at least have a continuing physical relationship with him? More to the point, why didn’t she use Andrew’s money to hire someone to kill Bodaway Macawi? I mean, Macawi is a small time Wyoming hood, and Siobhan has access to New York mobster types.

    • Gellar and daughter Charlotte. Ringer's midseason hiatus was so long that Gellar got pregnant. Was it accidental?

  • They killed off the wrong Butler. Gemma (Tara Summers) was a sympathetic character. Her relationship with Siobhan, and the fake Siobhan, was real and very interesting. The writers, for some inexplicable reason, had her go mad upon learning of her husband’s affair with her best friend. Then Siobhan (the real one) had her kidnapped. She was killed just before THE HIATUS THAT ATE THE AUDIENCE. Had Henry walked in on the kidnapping, and been fatally shot successfully rescuing Gemma, the show would have gone a lot better.
  • Episode 10 aired on 29 November. Two major holidays and 61 days later we got to see Episode 11. Who would give the audience of such a complex show that much time to forget what was going on?
  • Gellar’s pregnancy. Rumours of that began in the aforementioned hiatus. Were there to be a Season 2, Gellar would have been very pregnant during shooting. I suppose it’s possible that Bridget might discover that she is pregnant, but doesn’t that make Andrew a bit too potent? He apparently was also the father of Siobhan’s twins.
  • Let’s not forget that RINGER aired immediately after HART OF DIXIE. I have to say that if one likes the Rachel Bilson vehicle, one might not be inclined to like RINGER. Just because Bilson was a potential slayer (Colleen) doesn’t make the two shows compatible.

Andrea Roth built up to brilliant as madwoman Catherine, but by that time, no one was watching.

NIXIE IN THE POND – Worth Watching

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May 162012
 

Lucy Staniland (right) and Nikola McMurtry are NIXIE IN THE POND - new UK folk duo

I don’t know much about NIXIE IN THE POND. The folk duo is made up of Lucy Staniland, and Nikola McMurtry, who are both on Twitter, though McMurtry doesn’t tweet much. Their Facebook Page biography goes this way:

“Started out as friends who just happened to write our own material, then one night we began jamming together and then BOOM. We now out stay our welcome in each others pockets all the time. – We love all kinds of music, but we’ve a particular crush on folk, so we seem to be heading down the ‘folky’ path with a bit of our own stamp.”

I had to listen to them a couple of times before I decided they were good, but they are, and I suspect they’ll be around a while.

Nixie in the Pond is a Germanic Folk tale popularized by the Brothers Grimm. A nixie is a water spirit.

EARLY AND RECENT KSENIA SOLO

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May 162012
 

Ksenia Solo (right) and Tamara Hope as two witnesses to mermaids in THE REPUBLIC OF LOVE

Ksenia Solo in EARTH:FINAL CONFLICT (2000)

Before she was Kenzie, the greatest and most fashionable sidekick of all time, in LOST GIRL, Ksenia Solo did lots of TV. Her first appearance on television was in a series called I WAS A SIXTH GRADE ALIEN, and I couldn’t find a picture of her in that. Her second TV role was as Kathy Simmons in Episode #72 of EARTH: FINAL CONFLICT in 2000 (she was 13).

Her first film role was a minor one in the romantic comedy THE REPUBLIC OF LOVE (2003), which is based on a Carol Shields novel, and

can be streamed on Netflix. It starred Emilia Fox and Kate Lynch, and was about (in part) a woman who studies mermaids. Solo’s appearance was brief. She played Micheline, one of two people who claimed to have seen mermaids.

Her only other film appearances were in BLACK SWAN (Veronica), and in THE FACTORY a film that has been struggling to be released for several years and now at least has an official poster.

"You technically can’t steal from a dead guy, seriously its a thing, ask museums."
— Kenzi (Lost Girl)

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