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Is the Vampire Lestat’s Latest Single a Bop or Flop?


“Here come the gays / Here comes the fear.”

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist turned pulp fantasist Daniel Molloy is working on his follow-up project to the best-selling gothic “memoir” Interview With the Vampire, and his choice of subject has us wondering just how long he’ll keep the kayfabe up. Lestat rolls up in a Brat (Prince) green snakeskin and feather jacket and attitude to match, shooing away the makeup person (doesn’t need it) and tampering with the camera (and Daniel?) There are a lot of great details here: the jug labeled “fake blood,” the guy holding the clapboard with the “Armand Told the Truth” tattoo, Molloy’s Errol Morris–style use of an Interrotron to conduct the filmed interview.

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