Word: bateman
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...point of view of Hazie Coogan, the handler of aging actress and box office gold, Katherine Kenton. Though this pair is fictional, the world they occupy is full of real characters, although at the mercy of Palahniuk’s historical and anachronistic distortions. In the style of Patrick Bateman of “American Psycho,” Coogan’s narration is a constant barrage of brand names, celebrities, and historical references. The narrator self-consciously refers to this multiple times as “name-dropping Tourette’s syndrome,” and flipping...
...Bell has fronted two cult TV series, as the teen sleuth in Veronica Mars and the narrator of Gossip Girls; last year, in real movies, she was Jason Bateman's wife in Couples Retreat and the Sarah Marshall whom Jason Segel had to forget. Bell emits a wholesomeness that is slightly starched; she's not a dream girl, exactly, more a kid's favorite aunt. Duhamel, 37, who's been the second male lead in the Transformers movies and starred in Las Vegas for five years, has the reassuring presence of a cuter Tom Hanks, a Greg Kinnear with fewer...