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...also the second season of the popular HBO television series “True Blood” and the premiere of the more PG-rated “Vampire Diaries” on the CW channel. Of course, these modern vampire hunks bear little resemblance to Count Dracula??there’s none of that cape-wearing, sleeping-in-a-coffin nonsense...
Although the young Rossi had dismissed Stoker’s “Dracula?? as mere fiction—“useless as a source of information about the real Dracula??—our historian mulls over the very question of literary truth. Since Rossi believed Vlad the Impaler was actually a vampire, could “a novel...have the power to make something so strange happen in actuality?...
...when Rossi disappears without a trace, Paul and a fellow graduate student travel through Turkey, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania. Along the way, they collaborate with an expansive cast of scholars in an effort to locate Dracula??s tomb, to which they are convinced that Rossi has been taken...
...City, this high octane thriller chronicles the violent exploits of comic superhero Blade (Wesley Snipes). With the technical expertise of Whistler, an old vampire hunter, he wages a one-man war against the seedier half of the rave crowd: its bloodthirsty vampires. No longer are they of Dracula??s ilk, who at least treated his prey like dainty four-course meals. Deacon Frost, the latest threat to humanity, wants nothing to do with such namby-pambiness and seeks to become the all-powerful vampiric avatar, La Magra. Blade, of course, is not big on plot...
Gagnon’s laughter, described by his roommate Nat Myers ’04 as “manic,” was perhaps due to the coincidental fact that Gagnon is currently directing “Dracula?? at the Loeb. Bats turning up in his room, bats turning into people and sucking blood...the comedy is all there. “My roommates thought I was cracking up [because of the laughter] and that the stress of the show was getting to me,” he says...
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