I love this! No mention at all about any of the actresses who played Sybil as a little girl, yet we see credits for "restaurant customer", "art student", etc.
God, I've always known CBS just hated this movie, but the IMDB, too?
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
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"God, I've always known CBS just hated this movie, but the IMDB, too?"
Brendan, I have several years of John Willis' Screen World Annual books; the older ones containing just the major players in any given film...yet they are considered the "Gold Standard" in movie data, year after year. And over the years, they have generally gotten better. Especially when the studios begain bargaining a credit listing as partial payment... But Willis didn't have the budget or staff to gouge up every actor in the films and the studios only cared about their stars; they took what the studios gave them and that was that. IMDb is balky, but I visually identified "Vicky" from SYBIL'76 from seeing her as "Joanie Holroyd" in "SERIAL"; and they accepted that. When I spotted Conrad Bain in "A NEW LEAF" (as Professor Heinrich) in the wedding scene, they didn't accept it. The actress was listed in the cast by name and I matched that, having the "SERIAL" VHS; Conrad Bain is not listed in the cast...
Likewise "Littlechap's daughters" in "STOP THE WORLD I WANT TO GET OFF"; they had both girls listed, but only one was credited (incorrectly) with a character name. I corrected them both from the movie's cast list and they accepted them.
It's not hating the movie, it's more the volume of films and the weight of who says what about "Who's Who" in any movie. Enough people weighing in with a similar ID, and they'll yield to logic and/or mass opinion.
It just isn't easy, because - for one thing - I'm not in the industry or IMDb PRO ... and that does seem to weigh in the balance.
"Oh, them! From Pittsburgh, originally..."
CBS is "stupid! stupid! stupid!" and other than CSI and CSI:NY totally unwatchable (and those only on dvd and I'm willing to wait a year or two to get them.) What's sad is how many people were frequent posters on the S'76 board two years ago, and the number that asked "when is S'07 going to air?" that were totally let down by The Great Eye (Sauron in a new incarnation, maybe?)
If possible they should have aired the Sybil '76 over a couple of Saturdays (since they consider this their dead time anyway) and promoted the new one, then shown it a month or so later.
(Btw, I rewatched the new version this morning and am watching the original piano scene now, and damn it I'm crying again.)
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Is that a rumor or did you just make that up? -Mom
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CBS is "stupid! stupid! stupid!"
LOL - Couldn't agree more!
That scene with her smashing into someone's car really got to me. It was such a shock (I might remember it from the book, that sounded familiar) but it was great showing Peggy getting Sybil in trouble with all the glass breakage that was only touched upon in the original.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.