Jonathan Frid, 87, Sympathetic Vampire In TV’s Dark Shadows

“Frid starred in the 1960s gothic-flavored soap opera about odd, supernatural goings-on at a family estate in Maine. His death comes just weeks before a Tim Burton-directed version of Dark Shadows is due out next month starring Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins. Frid has a cameo role in the new movie in which he meets Depp’s character in a party scene with two other original actors from the show.”

The Getty Trust Hires A Fundraiser (Wait, The Getty Trust??)

“The J. Paul Getty Trust, the visual art world’s ultimate one-percenter with about $8 billion in net assets, has decided that it can’t get by on investment income alone and will begin raising money in earnest to pay for special projects.” The Trust’s president assures us (of course) that its fundraising won’t poach support from other cultural institutions.

‘The Man Who Made Rock ‘n’ Roll Safe For America’ – Dick Clark, ‘America’s Oldest Teenager’

“Before the invention of teenagers [in the 1960s] there had been bobbysoxers in the 1940s but no generational tag for adolescence. … He instinctively understood that the best way to capitalize on the emerging market was to pose as a kind of older brother, a safe-as-milk intermediary who kept the peace between worried parents and their restless children.”

Hollywood Epics Muscle Nature And Space Films Off IMAX Screens

“After decades of functioning as something like a planetarium – an attraction designed to spice up museums by showing documentaries aimed at families and nature enthusiasts – IMAX is suddenly in the spotlight,” with movies like The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, Men in Black 3 and The Hunger Games being shown on the supersize screens.