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COPPOLA PUTS THE BITE BACK IN `DRACULA' In making a new version of the classic, the director let Bram Stoker's novel be his guide.

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19921108
Author:Jay Carr Globe Staff

NEW YORK -- Meet the new 1992 Francis Ford Coppola -- winemaker, futurologist, survivor. And still a visionary film director. After all these years, Coppola remains the Babe Ruth of American film, a man of gargantuan appetites and enthusiasms, swinging for the fences.

After such tape-measure jobs as "The Godfather" trilogy, "Apocalypse Now" and "One from the Heart" -- all films of vaulting ambition, crammed with richness and excess, making and losing him fortunes, costing him health and sleep -- he's back with "Bram Stoker's Dracula," a project he frankly admits he undertook as part of a ...

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