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...TITLE: BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA...
...Anne Rice's Interview With a Vampire, "Dracula" gives vampirism an allegorical overtone of sexuality out of control. Periodic shots of blood cells under a microscope underscore the linkage of vampirism, sex, corruption, death, and, you guessed it, AIDS by implication. But even this association is fairly true to Bram Stoker's book. Stoker, by the way, died of syphilis...
SING A TO Z (A&M) The toe-tapping, finger-snapping alphabet soup on this album, served up by the Canadian children's trio Sharon, Lois & Bram, gets the two-year-olds and thirty-somethings in the house wriggling. When did frog sounds, xylophones, yodeling and zithers ever sound this good...
...Bram Stoker's novel The Lair of the White Worm is nothing like a great book, but its outline offers Russell plenty of fodder for his fantasies. An archaeologist unearths the skull of a giant reptile and thus unleashes a pestilence on England's Peak district, courtesy of Lady Sylvia Marsh (Amanda Donohoe). In her worship of a humongous subterranean worm, this venomous vamp sprouts fangs, spits at crucifixes, sups on the locals and searches for a sacrificial virgin -- no mean feat, since Russell has set his story in the 1980s...
...probably read the Bram Stoker original. You've probably heard Bela Lugosi say, "I never drink...wine." You've probably put on the play yourself in junior high school. But what other Harvard show offers a performance on Monday--Halloween night itself? Fangs for the memories...