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...original 1931 film, Dracula (Bela Lugosi would have felt right at home at Ravenswood), while Martin Pakledinaz's costumes evoke David Lynch's sanguinary 1984 intergalactic flop, Dune. In the famous mad scene, Lucia's descent into insanity is symbolized by a steep staircase, down which the white-gowned murderess floats like her Nosferatu namesake, Lucy Westenra, Coppola's hot-pants vamp extraordinaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mad, Bad and Dangerous | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

...Lenore Jones). If she can just convince her dim-witted husband Amos (Tym Tombar) to raise the five-thousand dollars necessary to hire slick lawyer Billy Flynn (Todd Forman), Roxie may escape with her life. But she's got competition for newspaper headlines and public sympathy from equally celebrated murderess Velma Kelly (Vonnie Roemer). Which one will get the not-guilty verdict first...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Chicago's Razzle-dazzle Fizzles | 11/9/1990 | See Source »

...theoretical blueprint of the play is sabotaged by shoddy acting in several key roles. The chief blame rests with D'Aquila, whose mannish, histrionic performance never musters an ounce of sympathy. Her love affair with Alsemero (Harry S. Murphy) is discarded too early; and she changes into an evil murderess with only the slightest provocation, gushing at one point, "I am forced to love thee now for thou provides so well for mine honor...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: More of The Same Thing With ART's 'Changeling' | 12/5/1985 | See Source »

...widow of General Reinaldo Pérez-Vega. My husband's throat was not slashed as you say. He was tortured for hours until he died, an act in which Astorga was an active participant. She is a murderess. Her nomination as the ambassador from Nicaragua is evidence of the type of leaders that form the Communist Sandinista government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 30, 1984 | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...Christine, who has the body of a '58 Plymouth Fury but the mind of a Victorian murderess. At birth, on the Chrysler assembly line, she mysteriously killed a mechanic who dared to drop cigar ash on her upholstery. (Alfred Hitchcock once tried, unsuccessfully, to work a scene like this into a movie; now the trick has been solved.) Two decades later, Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon), nerd of high school nerds, owns Christine-and is possessed by her. In a trice this four-eyed Faust is transformed into a cool dude with clear skin, wrap-around shades, slick black hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Season's Bleedings in Tinseltown | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

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