Word: draculas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...better days for being the breadbasket of the Balkans, and a land area about the size of Oregon, Rumania has survived everything from occupation by Roman legions to the murderous 15th century excesses of Prince Vlad Tepes, widely thought by scholars to be the real-life model for Count Dracula of Transylvania, fiction's most famous vampire...
...Dracula. An affable count of the title achieves celebrity status in his Transylvania community by becoming the first citizen to show up when the new blood bank holds its first blood-donation...
Those faces-stamped, printed and painted on nearly everything-are not, alas, always recognizable. The Guardian sneered that a foreign visitor might suppose "that we were preparing to celebrate the wedding of Miss Bo Derek to the late Count Dracula." Nor do all the portraits meet the palace directive that they be reproduced only on substances of a permanent nature. Wedgwood's basalt bust of Charles fits the bill at $1,700. So does a $1,200 cannon adorned with H.R.H.'s coat of arms. But Charles and Di T shirts are taboo, to the consternation of British...
...comforting facts. Last year the plays that she produced with her partner, Nelle Nugent, grossed more than $14 million. Since McCann and Nugent went into business less than five years ago, they have been responsible, in whole or in part, for some of Broadway's biggest hits: Dracula, The Elephant Man, Morning's at Seven, Amadeus. When they started, their colleagues referred to them simply as the girls. Now they are respectfully called the ladies-or, more appropriately, the golden ladies...
...them $70,000 and barring Universal from merchandising Lugosi's likeness. The ruling had quick impact. In New York, where the widows of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were suing three companies for exploiting the images of the comedy pair, a federal judge took his cue from the Dracula decision. He barred the firms from merchandising products like comic books, and liquor bottles shaped in the forms of the actors, and ruled that the plaintiffs should receive a sum of money to be fixed after a future hearing. Says Lucille Hardy Price: "I was deprived...