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...While browsing at Boston Costume, she decided to dress up as "an Amazon because it's something new. I'm always a witch." An amazon? The river, perhaps, or maybe the Imax movie. Alessandra Davin initially planned on being a hippie, and then the devil, but ultimately settled on "Dracula...because...um...I just thought of it." Clever! While all frightening characters were moderately popular, the Scream-murderer attire proved to be a particular favorite. Marta Bezoari said she wanted to go as Scream "because the older you get the scarier you wanna...

Author: By Yo-el Ju, | Title: cHiLD's PlaY | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

Hovering in the mission's doorway, a sweatshirt hood drawn over his pale, thin face, is Dracula. That's what the others call him, and he answers to it. Trembling, high and radically withdrawn, Dracula refuses to speak a word, but he does show off an arm full of tattoos. The intricate, dense, almost abstract blue-green filigree seems to say, "This is your brain on crank." The next show-and-tell item is the eyeglass case in which Dracula keeps his syringe and razor blade. The case's interior is obsessively decoupaged with tiny, interlocking pictures snipped from magazines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crank | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...Dracula is a great artist, Justin says, and if art is defined as manic patternmaking for no apparent purpose, he's right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crank | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...done him much good as far as movies are concerned. Whatever else his legacy may be, Clinton will be remembered as the man who was in the White House when Hollywood decided to release one film after another that makes the place a cross between the Playboy mansion and Dracula's castle. Maybe as some kind of compensatory gesture, the movies have also lately given us the President as cartoonish action hero: Harrison Ford in Air Force One, Bill Pullman in Independence Day--the Commander in Chief as somebody who can do a nice head butt. Musclehead or sex fiend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All The Presidents' Movies | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...workers of Dracula's Castle had an unusual explanation for their attraction to the occult...

Author: By Jason T. Benowitz, | Title: Haunted Times Return to Salem | 10/29/1997 | See Source »

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