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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...

Author: By J. C. Herz, | Title: New Movies | 11/19/1992 | See Source »

...actors became detectives too. "It's like being a journalist," Oldman said of his research into Oswald's character. "We all became assassination buffs. Marina ((Oswald's Russian-born widow)) had a tape that she let me see. It had a section leading up to the line, 'I'm just a patsy.' Oliver saw it, and he said, 'Let's restage that scene.' " Spacek spent time with Garrison's ex-wife Liz. "The sense I got from her," the actress says, "is of a woman living the life she wanted to live until her husband's obsession came through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oliver Stone: Who Killed J.F.K.? | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

...denies its denizens any lyric power. The Irish used to be able to talk at least. But they mostly shout and mumble in this story of a young man (Sean Penn) who returns to the Kitchen to find himself in a fatal family dispute involving his best friend (Gary Oldman), his old girlfriend (ravishing Robin Wright) and her gang-boss brother (Ed Harris). In State of Grace, the Irish are Italians without style. As one of them says, "We drink. We shoot people. We're not tough; we're just crazy." The film wants to be tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Married to The Mob | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

Some tax experts--including Hand Professor of Law Oliver Oldman--have said that this sort of trust is unusual. Oldman said that if the land is really used primarily in connection with adjacent commercial property, it should be taxed commercially. The Fly Club uses the land for parties and receptions...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Clubs Follow Many Roads To Arrive at Lower Taxes | 10/29/1988 | See Source »

TRACK 29. It's mother love with the proper stranger in this surreal treat from director Nicolas Roeg. Theresa Russell is the troubled mom, Gary Oldman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Oct. 17, 1988 | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

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