Friday, May 3, 2013
destination wedding in northern California
What are some of your favorite films or books involving Dracula or vampires that you might recommend?Well, if I have to make a recommendation, I’d send viewers back to the first great vampire movie, “Nosferatu” from 1922. Why, it’s a geek’s wonderland, with impersonations of old actors, horror movie in-jokes, some honestly funny dialogue (“Take to the air, zombie birdmen!”), a finger-poppin’ jazzy score, even a bit of sly and nasty sexual innuendo.jpgImage Credit: Barry Wetcher“She’s constantly unhappy about the perceived stuffiness of how she should be. [But] in light of the fact that there are all these wacky parents, formality is not the letter of the day,” Bronson-Howard says of making the decision to tuck wild flowers into Seyfried’s hair instead of shrouding her in a more traditional veil. You don’t have to be royalty to have a fairy tale wedding.But around 1940 he starred in a cluster of films in which his mad scientist carachter wasn’t mad at all, but was only trying to do what he could to benefit all mankind. Once more in 1940 he played a doctor who was trying to do the right thing and was sent to the chair for his efforts. If that extra income requires robbing a few graves or killing a few blind peasant girls well, what’re you gonna do?In many ways reprising his Vernon Isopod role from Five Star Final, Karloff can turn on the dirty, sleazy charm if need be, then instantly slide into cold menace when he doesn’t get what he wants. And then he gets off the boat and the wind hasn’t even messed up his hair, and then he bends down and PICKS A FLOWER THAT IS GROWING IN JOEY’S YARD, IN FULL VIEW OF JOEY, TO GIVE TO JOEY.Karloff plays a man who returns from a journey not feeling quite himself anymore, and not in a good way, either. A sharing dish of mixed green vegetables with dried shrimp and fermented tofu appeared. My previous book, which just went to paperback, is The Last Greatest Magician in the World, a biography of an amazing American magician named Howard Thurston, who competed with Houdini for the honor in the 1920s. It’s an amazing connection, and maybe not just coincidence. Take a look:Wedding Dress made from divorce papersImpressive, right? It's not the first time we've seen someone design a dress out of unlikely materials.nullCLICK ON PHOTO FOR FULL GALLERYOf course, nothing says the 'Roaring Twenties' like an embellished flapper dress.
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