Word: eggheaded
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...probably more entertainment bang for the buck. The animation nicely reproduces the films' shadowy, expressionist look; the action scenes really make sense; and the scripts aspire to more. This brooding superhero even paraphrases Santayana: "A fanatic is someone who redoubles his efforts while losing sight of his goal." Holy egghead...
...enough egghead commentary. There's also lots of blood and guts and campy overdone sex scenes in the film, most of which involve poor Lucy (Sadie Frost), the character who is ravished by Dracula in some of his less appealing forms. Meanwhile, back at the castle, a bevy of vampire harem girls keep Keanu Reeves, er, too weak to escape. Like Anne Rice's Interview With a Vampire, "Dracula" gives vampirism an allegorical overtone of sexuality out of control. Periodic shots of blood cells under a microscope underscore the linkage of vampirism, sex, corruption, death, and, you guessed it, AIDS...
...egghead type, and I don't mean that disrespectfully," Robert C. Jebelirer, the Republican president pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate told The New York Times last May. "I just don't see Harris Wofford as having the personality to shake hands and rub elbows...
Still, Landsbergis seems an unlikely conductor of Lithuania's symphony of defiance. With his brown beard, wire-rim glasses and brown corduroy jacket, he looks every bit the egghead that he is. A pianist at heart and a professor of music by trade, Landsbergis is more comfortable before a keyboard than a crowd; the music he sends up from the ivories is far more lyrical and moving than the political articles he pens. He is married to a fellow pianist, Grazina, and is proud that his family is caught up in the struggle for independence. "All of them are emotionally...