Word: dopeyness
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...trite grotesqueness, though, Alice cannot be tossed off as another American Psycho, the famously godawful Bret Easton Ellis novel to which it has been likened. Ellis' treatment of sadism has a dopey campiness that Homes is incapable of. She takes her crazed protagonist very seriously, describing his every abhorrent desire in mind-boggling detail that amounts to a twisted, writerly artfulness all its own. And as in her last book, In a Country of Mothers, the story of a psychoanalyst's debilitating obsession with a young patient, Homes shows a knack for intertwining two characters' pathologies. In Alice...
...clearly very fond of her characters. Phillips' love for Ruth and her dopey but sweet husband Henry comes through in the book, and gives the reader a special insight and affection for the characters. Phillips also points out that her fondness for her characters helped her return to and rework the manuscript in the years between its first draft and its publication. Even now, it is clear that Phillips takes an active interest in how people respond to her characters and interpret their actions...
ROGER HOWARTH certainly isn't the first soap star to leave a show to pursue a film career (ever hear of Laurence Fishburne or Demi Moore?) or because the plots were too dopey. But he may be one of the few who left for moral reasons. "I was hired to play Todd, the serial rapist and murderer," says the Emmy-winning Howarth of his role on One Life to Live, "and then I became Todd the erotically charged heir to $27.5 million." When the rapist maniac became a long lost son and his criminal tendency was transformed into something sexually...
...Suzanne Stone Maretto, a vamp from Little Hope, New Hampshire, who persuades a smitten teenager (Joaquin Phoenix) to try murdering her husband (Matt Dillon). The film, based on Joyce Maynard's novel, is a classy collision between the chipper misanthropy of scriptwriter Buck Henry and the eroticizing of dopey young sociopaths found in director Gus Van Sant's earlier work (Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho...
Runaways who really don't want to be found quickly adopt street names, often such crude synonyms as Lunatic, Fury, Speedster or Dopey. "Never tell anybody anything, that's my rule," says a 16-year-old from Ukiah in northwestern California. The slim, blond youth -- call him Billy -- says he spent a year living in a stairwell near the Scientology center on Hollywood Boulevard after his parents kicked him out of the house: another story of drugs and alcohol and late-night fights. On a good day, Billy earns $10 panhandling; he stuffs the money in his shoe. That...