So, She’s Gone From Bleeders To Bladders
Gothic novelist Anne Rice may be more creepy in real life than any of the fictional stories she dreams up.
The “Interview With the Vampire” author revealed on national television that not too long ago, she died - temporarily, that is.
“I wanted to commit suicide, which was ridiculous … but I wanted to kill myself,” Rice told the syndicated “Access Hollywood” for its Halloween special.
“I decided I would die for a few days. So, I advised the staff. I said, ‘Tomorrow morning when you come, I’ll be dead.’ I’m lying in bed. I’m dead. I slept and slept and slept for three days, and then I felt refreshed and I was alive again. I recommend this.”
But it’s not all fun and games. The hardest part about being dead, Rice confided, was having to go to the bathroom.
Loose talk
Sara Karloff, on what her late father, Boris Karloff, would think of today’s gory horror flicks: “He’d be horrified.”
He’ll be the one dressed up as a Beastie Boy
Adam Horowitz turns 31 today.
Cockroaches? Why, she wouldn’t hurt a fly
Mira Sorvino, the top bug chaser in the cockroach flick “Mimic,” isn’t bothered by scary stuff. “When a horror movie is done really well it becomes an instant classic,” she tells Entertainment Weekly. “There’s something psychologically powerful about these movies that when they’re done with great artfulness you never forget them.”
His fave, of course, is ‘Stranglers in the Night’
How did Al Pacino’s demonic character in “Devil’s Advocate” end up as a Frank Sinatra fan? “I was doing a goof,” Pacino explains in People magazine. “I was lip-synching to Frank as a way of preparing for a scene as the devil. I wanted to loosen Satan up a bit. Suddenly, everyone said, ‘You know, this should be in the movie.’ So I’m to blame, Frank.”
All work and no play make Jack a dull o’lantern
Denver businessman John Barden has become the pumpkin carver to the stars. Barden, whose Halloween work has appeared on some 80 television shows, this year carved likenesses of nine NBC stars, including Jerry Seinfeld and Brooke Shields, as well as a Jack Nicholson for Fox.
Over there, is that James Michener’s ghost?
Bette Midler’s Halloween party tonight at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria has an unlikely theme: Hawaii. Midler, who grew up on the islands, says “Bette’s Aloha Ball” will be a celebration of “Hulaween.”
Now, that’s what you would really call eerie
It sounded too good to be true - and it was. The Associated Press sent a story about a California costume shop that supposedly had some fake ears sitting around, and some Mike Tyson masks with mouths, and decided to combine the two into a truly tastless disguise. A couple of hours later came the retraction; the shop denied all.
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