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Foster's reading was the third in the "Rice and Reason" lecture series which is held every Thursday evening...
Meanwhile, Copeland's publicist said she contacted two vampire experts, who said that if Rice left Lestat at the building that is now the restaurant, he may still be there. Copeland says he isn't a believer. "But if I end up with two marks in my neck, you'll know what happened...
Some New Orleanians have wondered what makes Rice--who lives in a Garden District lair with an artificial German shepherd on the balcony, showed up at a book-signing event in a horse-drawn coffin and wears beaded headdresses on her more understated days--an arbiter of good taste. They also note that her sensitivity to neighbors' wishes isn't as pure as the blood of a virgin. She worked Catholics into a lather last year when she bought their chapel for her own use even as her hit novel Memnoch the Devil, which recounts Creation from Satan's viewpoint...
Public sentiment may have turned against Rice in the Straya affair after her second full-page ad, which struck some as self-promotion. In it, she noted that her most famous vampire, Lestat, just happens to disappear at the end of Memnoch at the abandoned auto dealership where Straya is now. And Copeland, who missed no public relations classes, realizes that the presumably fictional vampire can be as big a draw as Siegfried...
...that as it may, Rice, who lives a few blocks from the restaurant, wasn't the only one who went apoplectic when the Straya California Creole Grand Cafe was unveiled, looking like an accident between a cruise ship and a strip mall. "It gives me high blood pressure," says Louise Martin, a member of a neighborhood group. But she seems to be expressing a minority opinion, especially now that Copeland has been giving discounts to customers bearing Rice's ads. In a Times-Picayune poll, readers took his side 3 to 1. "And we're booked," says Copeland...