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Ever since Bela Lugosi went to bat in Dracula, the vampire has been a favorite of American horror-movie cultists. But even they will find little nourishment in Let's Scare Jessica to Death. Technology is partly to blame. Once electric lights are substituted for candles, the ghosts no...
The bad Catholic of the subtitle is Dr. Thomas More, a collateral descendant of the saint. He is also alcoholic, and, at 45, his health and equilibrium have become very shaky. "At the time that I developed liberal anxiety," he mourns, "I also contracted conservative rage and large-bowel complaints...
Most of rock groupie sub-culture is a direct descendant of the "band-chicks" that lived around jazz groups in the forties. The rock lexicon is almost completely derivative of jazz groupies. Plaster-casting comes from a saying out of the "be-bop" era, "Plate you now, cast you later...
That was one of the rare occasions in his life when Dan George needed anyone's help. A descendant of six generations of Tse-lal-watt chiefs, Dan George as a boy hunted on Seymour Mountain with bow and arrow (he scoffs at "white Indian" westerns: "No Indian holds...
The First Churchills, a lusty historical chronicle of Restoration England, is the BBC's successor to The Forsyte Saga. Donald Wilson is again the writer-producer and Susan Hampshire the star. She plays Sarah Churchill, who, she concluded after researching through some 25 books, was "the most important woman...