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...they were hired to put on "The Mercury Theatre on the Air" (also known as "First Person Singular") as a nine-week summer re-placement in the Lux slot, Monday nights from 9 to 10 on CBS. So they scurried for a property, chose Bram Stoker?s epistolary novel "Dracula" and, in an all - night cut - and - paste session at Reuben?s Deli, assembled the adaptation. The pressure isn?t evident in the show, but the furious energy is. From the first minutes, which turned Jonathan Harker?s trip to Castle Dracula into a symphony of thun-der, horses? hooves...
...Sits with a disconsolate expression wondering when Harrison Ford will show up BORIS BECKER Tennis maestro must pay child support after siring a child in a Japanese restaurant broom-closet with a model. What was in that sashimi? VLAD DRACUL PRINCE KRETZULESCO Transylvanian royal loses suit against firm selling Dracula wine. His case against Kretzulesco Fish Fingers was also dismissed...
...until 1998, when DreamWorks exec David Geffen talked him into giving it a try. "He was a pit bullterrier," says Brooks. "He was on my pants cuff, and I couldn't shake him." It helped that Brooks' movie career was in a slump (his last feature, 1995's Dracula: Dead and Loving It, had flopped) and that Geffen had--"unbeknownst to David Geffen, but knownst to me"--tapped into a longtime dream of Brooks': to write a Broadway score...
...named Forrest J. Ackerman, a true enthusiast of horror films (nowadays he'd be putting up an obsessive web site with hundreds of pages). If there were people screaming, "Famous Monsters" covered it: the latest Vincent Price film, Japanese monster flicks, any flavor of Dracula or Frankenstein. There were stories on makeup, on directors, on actors, on special effects techniques. There was the "Fangmail" and the monthly "Horrorscope." The back of the book sold items like magic kits, X-ray glasses and Tor Johnson masks (the wrestler turned actor courtesy of Ed Wood and "Plan 9 From Outer Space...
...CRITICS LOVE IT A movie about the making of a legendary silent movie, E. Elias Merhige's atmospheric drama imagines that Max Schreck, the actor who played the Dracula-like Count Orlock in the 1922 classic Nosferatu, really was a vampire. John Malkovich parades in fine, fey style as German director F.W. Murnau, and Dafoe, unrecognizable in Schreck's rodentoid pallor, is a hoot and a horror as the ultimate Method actor...