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...Wings of the Dove. Interview With the Vampire. No connection? As Henry James might say, the depth of congruence that does, in fact, exist between these seeming dissemblables is enough, upon revelation, to transport one into the fullest and truest state of deep perturbation and wonderment...
...could make circumstantial connections all day, but the fact is that in key aspects of character and plot, Interview With the Vampire and The Wings of the Dove spin strikingly similar stories. Sure, their twinship isn't biting anyone's neck just yet. Still, the similarities are telling and important, and all the more interesting for the fact that they are unlikely to receive much comment or notice...
...Wings of the Dove is about Kate Croy (Bonham Carter), a rich, pale orphan who cannot marry the man she loves because he is poor. As a way out of lonely misery, she convinces her dashing lover Merton (Linus Roache) to court her rich, beautiful but ailing friend Millie (Alison Elliott) so she'll leave him all her money...
...Wings of the Dove, of course, doesn't have any more chance of making $100 million dollars than Interview With the Vampire had of winning Academy Awards. Which is unfortunate, because of the two, The Wings of the Dove is the far superior--and scarier--vampire movie. Millie, unlike any character in Interview, is hugely sympathetic without being boring, so we are much more horrified by Kate's predatious approaches than we are by Lestat's. Also, as the film rolls on, Millie's skin whitens and her eyes sink back in her skull. We can literally see Kate...
...parties think the issue can carry them to success in the 1998 congressional elections. Be prepared for charges that the President is trying to socialize medicine or that the G.O.P. wants to toss sick children into the snow, all of it whipped up by the lobbyists and pollsters that dove into the health-care melee the last time...