Word: lestat
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...Lestat Now for an easy one. Whose bright idea was it to take a genre that almost nobody likes - the vampire musical - concoct a story (based on Anne Rice's novels) that spans a couple of hundred years and loses us at about year 65, and induce Elton John to write a score that (except for one lively rock number in the second act, in which a tween-age vampire cries for ?More?) sounds instinguishable from Broadway's usual power-pop Muzak? Lestat is a predictable bore, sometimes a laughable one. Only redeeming feature: it prompts some retrospective kind thoughts...
...Lestat certainly would not approve...
...VAMPIRE LESTAT Elton John and Bernie Taupin are developing a Broadway musical based on Anne Rice's novels. Look for the opening next year...
Unlike the Britney and Mandy movies, Aaliyah's fits into the prevailing guy mode: a threnody of "sex, blood and rock 'n' roll," in the words of its lead vampire, Lestat. (Director Michael Rymer's film is based on an Anne Rice novel.) While Lestat, played with a handsomely snaky androgyny by Stuart Townsend, wows the kids with his rock-star act, the ancient Queen Akasha waits to be roused from her slumber. Waits for most of the movie: Akasha-Aaliyah doesn't show up until the last third, by which time she has received a bigger buildup than...
...legendary vampire Lestat (Stuart Townsend) stretches out in his bath of rose petals, Queen Akasha (Aaliyah) runs her hands slowly over his face. Gradually, as his eyes close, she bends her head forward, closes her bared teeth around his neck and takes a big, juicy bite...