Richard Wenk's 1986 horror comedy is even better than we remember -- funny, reasonably scary, and stylish. Grace Jones' vampire queen is intimidatingly strange, and great makeup effects and polished direction insure that the jokes and chills get equal attention. Vamp Blu-ray Arrow Video 1986 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 93 min. / Street Date October 4, 2016 / Available from 29.95 Starring Chris Makepeace, Sandy Baron, Robert Rusler, Dedee Pfeiffer, Gedde Watanabe, Grace Jones, Billy Drago, Brad Logan, Lisa Lyon. Cinematography Elliot Davis, Douglas F. O'Neons Makeup Effects Greg Cannom Editor Marc Grossman Original Music Jonathan Elias Written by Richard Wenk story by Wenk, Donald P. Borchers Produced by Donald P. Borchers Directed by Richard Wenk
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
There's a lot of love for '80s pictures out there, mainly because the kids who went to see them back in the day are now in their forties and are beginning to feel pangs of nostalgia,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
There's a lot of love for '80s pictures out there, mainly because the kids who went to see them back in the day are now in their forties and are beginning to feel pangs of nostalgia,...
- 10/4/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Get the latest updates on Osama bin Laden's death. Plus, earlier updates below.
Bin Laden's Young Wife Identified
Related story on The Daily Beast: Britain's Crush on Obama
By the time Osama bin Laden was killed, he was down to only one of his five wives: Amal Ahmed Abdul Fatah, the youngest and his rumored favorite. By the time he moved into his Pakistan mansion, Bin Laden had divorced one of his wives and three others had moved to Syria, according to ABC News, but Amal had remained with him. She had been given to him as a gift when she was still a teenager, and eventually had three children with bin Laden-a daughter and two sons, who lived with them in the compound.
On the night of the raid, Amal was in the bedroom with Bin Laden, and apparently reacted with fury to the Navy SEALs who had come to kill her husband.
Bin Laden's Young Wife Identified
Related story on The Daily Beast: Britain's Crush on Obama
By the time Osama bin Laden was killed, he was down to only one of his five wives: Amal Ahmed Abdul Fatah, the youngest and his rumored favorite. By the time he moved into his Pakistan mansion, Bin Laden had divorced one of his wives and three others had moved to Syria, according to ABC News, but Amal had remained with him. She had been given to him as a gift when she was still a teenager, and eventually had three children with bin Laden-a daughter and two sons, who lived with them in the compound.
On the night of the raid, Amal was in the bedroom with Bin Laden, and apparently reacted with fury to the Navy SEALs who had come to kill her husband.
- 5/3/2011
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
Richard Holbrooke's successor as special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan takes office when a jihadist takeover in Pakistan is a possibility for the first time. Bruce Riedel on America's challenges in that nightmare scenario.
Marc Grossman, a veteran American diplomat called out of retirement, is about to take over one of toughest jobs in U.S. foreign policy-special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Grossman's challenge will be particularly difficult on Pakistan, where a dispute over the diplomatic status of Raymond Davis, an American official accused of two murders by the Pakistani police, threatens to undo two years of patient efforts by the Obama team to build a strategic relationship with the most dangerous country in the world. High-level talks have been suspended and President Obama's planned visit to Pakistan is in jeopardy. The Hill is calling for aid cuts. Unless Grossman can get the bilateral engagement back on track,...
Marc Grossman, a veteran American diplomat called out of retirement, is about to take over one of toughest jobs in U.S. foreign policy-special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Grossman's challenge will be particularly difficult on Pakistan, where a dispute over the diplomatic status of Raymond Davis, an American official accused of two murders by the Pakistani police, threatens to undo two years of patient efforts by the Obama team to build a strategic relationship with the most dangerous country in the world. High-level talks have been suspended and President Obama's planned visit to Pakistan is in jeopardy. The Hill is calling for aid cuts. Unless Grossman can get the bilateral engagement back on track,...
- 2/16/2011
- by Bruce Riedel
- The Daily Beast
• Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has reportedly chosen Marc Grossman, a former diplomat, to replace Richard Holbrooke as the administration’s envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. [The Washington Post] • On last night’s episode of Jeopardy, a bot, engineered by Ibm and named Watson, tied with a human, a Jeopardy champion named Brad Rutter. The computer will compete for two more days. [The New York Times] • News Corp., via a leaked memo/scavenger hunt written by The Daily editor Jesse Angelo, has requested that “the oldest dog in America” be identified and mined for news value. [Gawker] • Internet meme Stephen Baldwin is suing actor Kevin Costner because Baldwin sold his shares of an oil-removal company, for which Coster was a spokesman, in the wake of the Gulf Spill. [Politico] • Russian model Irina Shayk graces the cover of this year’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. [The Huffington Post]...
- 2/15/2011
- Vanity Fair
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