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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 220218" data-attributes="member: 57984">That&#039;s the scene which made me suspect they&#039;d gone after Frank Langella in 1983 and he&#039;d likely turned them down.A few months earlier, Langella had said in the press that, &quot;I could watch DYNASTY three times a week, but I&#039;d never want to act in one!&quot;Then, when Dex (Nader) first beds Alexis, it&#039;s done in a vaguely similar way to the way Langella picks up Kate Nelligan in DRACULA (1979) right down to the &quot;I need&quot; line and his billowy white shirt -- such that at the time I first saw the episode in late-&#039;83, we were like, &quot;Whoa -- that&#039;s a really lame copy of that scene from DRACULA.&quot;Then come to find out that Langella was buddies with Nader&#039;s wife or somebody and apparently Langella &quot;loved&quot; DYNASTY -- it was his favorite show, but he meant that very snidely (for obvious reasons, the series ardent but utterly incompetent attempts at sophistication) his telling people &quot;you&#039;ve got to see&quot; the show, because it&#039;s &quot;so bad it&#039;s almost good.&quot;<img src="http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m127/tubesteak69/langelladynasty.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 220218, member: 57984"] That's the scene which made me suspect they'd gone after Frank Langella in 1983 and he'd likely turned them down. A few months earlier, Langella had said in the press that, "I could watch DYNASTY three times a week, but I'd [I][B]never [/B][/I]want to [I][B]act [/B][/I]in one!" Then, when Dex (Nader) first beds Alexis, it's done in a vaguely similar way to the way Langella picks up Kate Nelligan in DRACULA (1979) right down to the "I need" line and his billowy white shirt -- such that at the time I first saw the episode in late-'83, we were like, "Whoa -- that's a really lame copy of that scene from DRACULA." Then come to find out that Langella was buddies with Nader's wife or somebody and apparently Langella "loved" DYNASTY -- it was his favorite show, but he meant that very snidely (for obvious reasons, the series ardent but utterly incompetent attempts at sophistication) his telling people "you've got to see" the show, because it's "so bad it's almost good." [IMG]http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m127/tubesteak69/langelladynasty.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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