Anne Rice

Anne Rice Understands Appeal Of 'Twilight,' 'True Blood' 'Interview With the Vampire' author says they reflect the 'desire of young women to have the mystery and protection and wisdom of older men.' {"widget": "Statistics",...

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...Diaries" books and TV show, and before Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse novels formed the basis for the Showtime hit "True Blood," Rice's "Vampire Chronicles" made Lestat a household name. Her "Interview with the Vampire," published in...

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...first revenants in the fictional backwoods town of Bon Temps, Louisiana. New Orleans, meanwhile, is "a real centre" for vampires with "the whole Anne Rice thing, right?" Alan Ball, the creator of True Blood, whose previous work includes Six...

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...True Blood blends the conventions of vampire stories with the so-called 'southern gothic' tradition in much the same way as Anne Rice (Interview With The Vampire) did. If anything, however, the True Blood stories are more daring, and use the...

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...in 2005. Those who were reading Anne Rice and Charlaine Harris (whose books inspired the HBO series True Blood ) remain devoted to the genre, but Twilight has attracted a new wave of fans with its vampire Romeo and Juliet story. Hendrix now...

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...enamored teens and, undoubtedly, causing consternation for their parents, raised on the double-crossing vampires of Anne Rice novels and shows like "Dark Shadows." And the new CW show "The Vampire Diaries" revolves around a teen...

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Vampire legends are the stuff of many popular books and movies. Authors such as Anne Rice and Stephenie Meyer brought stories of vampires to the bestseller list. Shows like HBO's True Blood and vampire movies like Underworld and Blade...

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...guide to vampires. You'll find interviews with the authors behind Twilight and True Blood, our list of the 20 greatest bloodsuckers ever, and Anne Rice's pick for the best new vampire - as well as a talk with her about how she...

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...of the story. So did an oddly sexy, bespectacled Gary Oldman in Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 Dracula, and Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt when they bared their fangs in the movie version of Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire in 1994. But there's...

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