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Christian Bale, (3) who played Mary's Child in the 1999 NBC movie Mary, Mother of Jesus. Bale was in All the Little Animals with...
...film rests on the shoulders and taut torso of Bale, who as a child starred in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun and played Jesus in a recent TV movie. His Patrick is stylish and creepy--Jack the Ripper in an Armani outfit. Bale's dishy anonymity (he stares at himself and says, "I simply am not there") makes him the ideal black hole at the center of this movie. It needs to be seen and appreciated, like a serpent in a glass cage...
...black-comic tour de force novel American Psycho, Ellis pushed past parody into nightmare farce. He created, in his antihero Patrick Bateman, a moneyman with a true killer instinct: mergers and acquisitions become murders and executions. "I have all the characteristics of a human being," Patrick (Christian Bale) says in Mary Harron's handsome, icily funny film version, "but not a single identifiable human emotion, except for greed and disgust...
...been dieting like a madwoman, but she really looks awful (her husband, David Arquette, meanwhile, looks healthy with some extra pudge)... Random diversion: does anybody remember when the dining halls slapped hamburger patties onto croissants and tried to convince us that they were "French Rondelles?"...Okay, I think Christian Bale is a nice person and all, and I sort of see what Mary Harron was trying to do in casting him as the "psycho" in American Psycho, but why cast a Brit in a role that absolutely must be played by an American? Harron cast Jared Leto ("My So Called...
...woman who said no to Leo. Leonardo Di Caprio had wanted to play the title role in American Psycho, her film of Bret Easton Ellis' incendiary novel about a yuppie murderer, and Harron declined. But after Di Caprio dropped out, she made the $6 million movie with Christian Bale. Anyone who saw her I Shot Andy Warhol, with Lili Taylor as would-be assassin Valerie Solanas, could spot the Canadian-born Oxford graduate's mulishness and taste for beguiling sociopaths. Also her love of period Manhattan. "The Ellis novel has enormously violent sections," she says. "But there's also some...