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...year-old imperial heir selected Masako Owada '85 as his bride-to-be after a long and well-publicized search. Owada is the daughter of Japan's top diplomat, Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Hisashi Owada...
...Edgar Allan Poe and the brooding landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich, both contemporaries of the composer. Maybe. But those with an eye for contemporary culture -- and the weekly grosses of Francis Ford Coppola's latest film in Variety -- can see that the real influence is one Mr. Zeitgeist. The Bride of Dracula, anybody...
TEDDY ROOSEVELT'S DAUGHTER ALICE used to say that her father longed to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral. In SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, a thriller that opened on Broadway last week, actor Stacy Keach achieves something akin to T.R.'s dream. Without spoiling the "surprises" in a lumpishly predictable plot, one can reveal that Keach does not disappear when the reclusive billionaire he plays is shot and dumped into one of Harry Houdini's escape boxes before the first-act curtain. Keach acts with brio and glee, but as ever with author Rupert Holmes...
...CANDY MAN was a genial guy. The '90s version, from the fetid, fertile brain of horror bard Clive Barker, is a malefic beastie who preys on those foolhardy enough to say his name five times. Now he's lusting to make a curious grad student (Virginia Madsen) his charnel bride. Borrowing from Stephen King and Freddy Krueger (while paving the way for a batch of Candyman sequels), director Bernard Rose deftly juggles sense and slaughter. This is clever, spooky stuff, with a lingering autumn chill...
Meanwhile, Betty is fending off the advances of her children's governess Ellen (Vonnie Roemer), whom she eventually marries off to Bagley with advice that movingly highlights the Victorian woman's deprivation of sexual pleasure and knowledge. "Just keep still," she advises the bride to be, while knowing that even she is beginning to want more than that...