In the days and weeks leading up to this Sunday's Valentine's Day, a smattering of real-life romances have emerged as potential threats to outshine some of the classics like Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall , Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward , and Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown .

Just in time for Halloween, the most famous vampire of all invades the Charity Randall Theatre as the University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre presents Ted Tiller's comic thriller Count Dracula October 22 through November 1. Things are more than unusually strange at Dr.

Christopher Howse enjoys a strange tale of carnality and cardinals in Michael Seed's Saints and Sinners The car in which Father Michael Seed was driven in Rome almost ran over Cardinal Ratzinger, who later became the Pope, and Cardinal Hume, who "stormed round" to the car window, "raised his clenched fist and in his drunken Irish voice shouted, ...