2The Dark Knight 475 Votes 3Bram Stoker's Dracula 494 Votes 4The Fifth Element 369 Votes Photo: Nosferatu Film Arts Guild 4 Max Schreck Max Schreck played Count Orlock - a character based on Dracula - in the 1922 film, Nosferatu. Bram Stoker's heirs sued filmmakers over this unauthorized...
Photo: Dark Shadows ABC Films/Worldvision Enterprises/CBS Television Distribution 27 Robert Rodan Robert Rodan played Adam, a character based on Frankenstein's Monster, in many episodes of Dark Shadows. Age: 87 Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey, USA 71 votes Is he the best Fra...
As he expected, the villagers who heard the cry dropped their work and ran in great excitement to the pastur e. But when they got there they found the Boy doubled up with laughter at the trick he had played on them. A few days later the shepherd boy again shouted, "Wolf! Wolf!" ...
This article analyzes Paula Gunn Allen's 1983 novel The Woman Who Owned the Shadows deploying Jack Halberstam's notion of queer failure, a subversive phenomenon that involves embracing negative affects, refusing success narratives, and negating selfhood. Refusing stereotypical feminin...
A former NFL linebacker who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star, playing nemesis-turned-ally Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” movies, starring with Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Predator” and teaching golf in “Happy Gilmore.” Feb. 1. Ian Lavender, 77. An actor who played a hapless...
In the west of Liberty Valance, the hero is not made nor born, but manufactured by the media. As the editor of the Shinbone Star says; "This is the West. When the legend becomes the fact, print the legend."The legend concerns lawyer Ransom Stoddard, played in typical earnest aw-...
Actor Conrad Veidt, who played Gwynplaine in the 1928 filmThe Laughing Man, inspired the definitive drawing of the Joker. This villain is the cause of many of the misfortunes that follow Batman, such as the paralysis of Barbara Gordon, Batgirl, the death of Jason Todd, the second Robin, ...
Much of his work touched on baseball (his father had played in the minor leagues). Kinsella published almost 30 books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry and won the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest honors. “He was a dedicated story-teller, performer, curmudgeon, an irascibl...
But I was ready to let go of that fear. After all, I just wanted to use the damn iPod! So I put in my earbuds and turned it on. And the first song that played was “Here Comes Goodbye” by Rascal Flatts. I don’t think I’d ever heard this song before. I didn’t even kno...
If you love a good story, you're in the right place. Explore the Stories Read the Blog Subscribe for updates Book Merch Shop Now Paperbacks Kimberly Sue Iverson is a redhead rewriting her reality. Journeying through the darkness to build a better life fo