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...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...
...undead have stalked opera houses as disparate as San Francisco and Bayreuth, in both cases in Wagner's The Flying Dutchman. But Zambello goes further in her use of pop cultural references, particularly cinematic ones. The expressionistic sets recall Tod Browning's original 1931 film, Dracula (Bela Lugosi would have felt right at home at Ravenswood), while Martin Pakledinaz's costumes evoke David Lynch's sanguinary 1984 intergalactic flop, Dune. In the famous mad scene, Lucia's descent into insanity is symbolized by a steep staircase, down which the white-gowned murderess floats like her Nosferatu namesake, Lucy Westenra, Coppola...
Superman is dead; comics buyers are lining up around the block. Malcolm X has found a huge new following years after his death. And then there's the new heartthrob, Dracula. What's a normal living...
BILL CLINTON HAD NO SHORTage of advice last week about how to fix the U.S. economy. Innumerable pundits, still wheezing after the long campaign, devoted themselves to speculating and kibbitzing about his every option. Should he immediately attack the deficit Dracula that is sucking the life out of the economy? Or should he first focus on putting people back to work with a short- term stimulus package, and thereby risk worsening the deficit? Clinton had remained coy since election night, maintaining a low profile in Little Rock, Arkansas, and emerging mostly for photo opportunities...
CINEMA Coppola does Dracula as a luscious, infernal romance...