Dacre Stoker, 60, is the great grandson of Bram, the creator of one of literature's and film's most enduring characters, Dracula. With the help of a co-writer, the Montreal native has put together pieces of his ancestor’s lost literary legacy. The result is Dracul, a pre-quel to the 1897 classic. Stoker and J.D. Barker discovered that the publishers edited out the first 101 pages of the original manuscript. To find what went missing, the men tracked down other editions and combed through letters and journals. Some of the new novel’s material was drawn from interviews with cousins across Canada and England. Here's the cover:
A work by street artist Banksy shredded itself after being auctioned off for $1.4 million at Sotheby’s in London — and the buyer may be left holding the scraps. Just after bidding closed an alarm sounded and the piece fell through a shredder the artist secretly built into the picture frame, slicing Girl with Balloon into strips that dropped from the bottom of the work. A broker said: “This is now part of art history in its shredded state, and we’d estimate Banksy has added at a minimum 50% increase to its value.” Here are side by sides, before and during:
RIP consummate actor Scott Wilson, 76, best known for his portrayal of Hershel in 37 episodes of The Walking Dead. He did so much more. There are 81 titles under his name at IMDb. Although he was never nominated for an Oscar, he received critical acclaim for his chilling portrayal of one of the killers, opposite Robert Blake, in In Cold Blood (1967). He received a Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor nomination for his role in the screen adaption of William Peter Blatty's novel, The Ninth Configuration (1980). He was perhaps the best aspect of the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby. He was also in The Right Stuff (1983), an episode of The X-Files, one of Law & Order, and nine of CSI, to name a few. Here's a quote attributed to him: "When you arrive to a set and you see the sky all lit up and the sets all lit up, for me it is very exhilarating and it's a lot of fun. It's really fun to see that and to be a part of it. It's just like going to the circus." Well Done, sir. Thank you.
President Trump has another victory. An article in today's Post dubs supporters of Justice Kavanaugh as "Mama Bears" and suggests they are galvanizing for the mid terms, just as female Democrats are.
My thanks to the young woman who bought Killing Jesus by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, the only sale of today's session in Park Slope.
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