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KEVIN COSTNER, A BAD GUY IN Mr. Brooks? Not quite: he's driven to murder by his alter ego (William Hurt). "He has an addiction he's trying to keep under wraps," Costner says of his character. "In life, when we see somebody trying to beat something, we feel sympathy. There's humanity inside this hideousness...
BILL BIXBY played Banner from 1977 to 1982, in a TV movie and subsequent series. His alter ego was embodied by muscleman Lou Ferrigno. Bixby, mild but coiled, was the first to speak the signature line "You wouldn't like me when I'm angry...
...killing or violence--because he never talked at all. "We just thought he was shy," his suitemate Karan Grewal told TIME. It was not until NBC aired his last words and images the night of April 18 that they and everyone else had a chance to see all the ego, the anger, the desire to get even with the "rich brats" with their trust funds and gold necklaces and Mercedes. "You have never felt a single ounce of pain in your whole lives...
...year-old killer who went on a shooting spree in the Capitol Building in Washington in 1998, was a paranoid schizophrenic. Brain injury in an otherwise healthy person can lead to similar violence. Damage to the frontal region of the brain, which regulates what psychologists call the observing ego, or the limbic region, which controls violence, reflection and defensive behavior, can shut down internal governors and trigger all manner of unregulated behavior. "Somebody who had damage to both regions would be a bad player for sure," says forensic psychiatrist Neil Kaye, a faculty member at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia...
...foreground of the soundscape, is moving—yet it detracts from its ability to move as one cohesive piece. But less-than-best Bird is still miles better than most of today’s music: “Armchair Apocrypha” is sweeping and atmospheric, with ego-probing lyrics that spark neuron firestorms—and establish Bird as undeniably indie, at least for now. Bird is dealing with topics of self-reflection that require more existential honesty than many listeners will feel comfortable giving. Would most listeners agree with Bird when, in “Imitosis...