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DIRECTOR: FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA...
...Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, to call it by its rightful name, powerfully reimagines this Victorian myth for the age of AIDS. Dracula (Gary Oldman) is a warrior-wooer impaled on the cross of his love; he must track his obsession until he is released from it. His misery gives him mesmeric mastery. The wretched Renfield (Tom Waits -- terrific) bays to do Dracula's bidding. Flowers wilt at the count's passage, and maidens burn at his touch. A young woman's tears turn to pearls in his hand...
...triple anointing, Ford Motor Co. named a new executive crew: Alexander Trotman, Allan Gilmour and Louis Ross. The English-born Trotman is apparently heir apparent to chairman Harold Poling after he retires. Unlike his confreres, Trotman has extensive experience overseas -- and the blessing of the Ford family...
After seven games, opponents were running up an average of 28.5 points a game while Coach Joe Restic's Multi-Flex made one long for the smooth, humming efficiency of a 1974 Ford Pinto--scoring just 15 points per contest as Harvard spiraled to a 1-6 record...
Dracula the screen role is more seductive, protean, and undead than the legendary Transylvanian himself. In Francis Ford Coppola's resurrection (exhumation?) of the character, we see Dracula in his most romantic incarnation to date. Gary Oldman plays Dracula as a Byronic hero, a Slavic warrior prince who slaughters Turks in holy war. When his wife, Elisabetha, hears a false report of his death, she commits suicide, and the Church pronounces her soul damned. In a fit of rage and sorrow, the prince vows to join her in damnation and becomes a vampire. Essentially, the torture of his vampirism derives...