Saturday, June 26, 2010

Star of vampire movie Twilight, Robert Pattinson distantly related to the historical Count Dracula?

A new twist provided by the tween-scream flick's promotion machine (just in time for Wednesday's release of "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse") says researchers at Web site Ancestry.com claim to have discovered that the 24-year-old British actor is related to the 15th-Century ruler Vlad IV Tzepesch, a.k.a. Vlad the Impaler, a.k.a. that crazy killer freak who inspired Bram Stoker's classic novel, "Dracula."

Full article: http://www.freep.com/article/20100625/ENT07/6250357/1035/Ent/Is-Robert-Pattinson-a-blood-relative-of-Dracula