Book lifts (coffin) lid on star of eerie first Dracula film

Sat, 10 May 2008 22:09:54 GMT

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The first screen portrayal of Dracula was so eerie, some critics asked whether the actor himself could be a vampire. But since his death, little has been done to resurrect Max Schreck's reputation -- until now

The rest of his career has been largely forgotten -- unjustly, in the view of German author Stefan Eickhoff, who has written what he says is the first biography of Schreck

Eickhoff's biography provides a detailed chronicle of the career of Schreck, a civil servant's son who appeared in around 800 stage and screen roles

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The most revealing descriptions of the Berliner come from tributes paid to Schreck after he died suddenly in 1936

Contemporaries remembered Schreck, who was married but had no children, as a loyal, conscientious loner with an offbeat sense of humor and a talent for playing the grotesque

One recalled how he lived in "a remote and strange world" and would spend hours walking through dense, dark forests

Men charged after skull used as bong

Sat, 10 May 2008 20:25:40 GMT

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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Authorities in Texas have filed corpse-abuse charges against two men who allegedly removed a skull from a grave and used it as a bong.

The Harris County District Attorney's Office confirmed on Thursday that misdemeanor abuse of corpse charges have been filed in the case.

One of the men allegedly told police they dug up a grave in an abandoned cemetery in the woods, removed a head from a body and smoked marijuana using the skull as a bong.

Police found the cemetery and a grave that had been disturbed but are still investigating the rest of the story, officials said.

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Book lifts (coffin) lid on star of eerie first Dracula film

Men charged after skull used as bong