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Article: Vampires Stake a Claim on Audiences' Hearts
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- The Washington Post
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- September 7, 2008
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Hollywood loves a romantic lead, even if landing that hunky man
means defiling the crypts of the undead. On screens big and small,
vampires are increasingly becoming less demonic and more
sympathetic, less evil and more nuanced -- and have become the
most eligible bachelors around.
In recent years, the shift has become especially pronounced.
HBO's new show "True Blood" takes these caped corpses further still
toward social respectability, as Oscar winner Anna Paquin plays a
young woman who falls for a 150-year-old Civil War veteran played by
British Shakespearean actor Stephen Moyer.
These days, modern, morally brooding vampires abound. Stephenie
Meyer, author of the "Twilight" saga, about ...