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Directed by Stan Dragoti...
There is some racial joking in Love at First Bite that one could have done without. It is intended to prove that nothing is sacred to the film makers, but it just plays uncomfortably. There is also a flatness about Stan Dragoti's direction that prevents the film from realizing all its comic potential. But the performances (including that of Arte Johnson as Renfield, the count's bug-eating assistant) are uniformly jolly, the parody of the basic Dracula formula well observed and its social commentary deliciously off the wall. The production's genially tatty air enhances...
...passed up one of the dreams of every American male," says Contributor John Skow, who wrote this week's cover story on top Fashion Model Cheryl Tiegs. While Skow was interviewing Tiegs over dinner, her husband Stan Dragoti suggested that they all go over to Manhattan's Studio 54 discotheque. "Cheryl insisted that she was going to dance with me," recalls Skow. "But I had just got over the flu and was exhausted. I excused myself and went back to my hotel...
...much do you weigh?" Tiegs does her best with the material. "Five-ten," she says, her face alive and warm, the sparkle in her eyes working at perhaps 55% of max; "One-twenty." She ballooned up to 155 lbs., she says, just after she and her husband Stan Dragoti, a well-established TV commercial maker, were married, and she dropped out of modeling. Then she stopped eating fattening foods ?"Sorry," she says, "but that's the secret"?and the blub dropped away...
Tiegs was not yet a superstar in those early New York years, but Glamour's editors discovered that the magazine sold better with her face on the cover, and they used her again and again. Early on she met Adman Stan Dragoti, then head art director for Wells, Rich, Greene and 15 years her senior. He had been married briefly and bitterly and was gun-shy. They lived together on and off for two years and parted, supposedly for good, three times. Finally he agreed to try marriage again...