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The story has been told often. Ellis Amburn tells it again in "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World: The Obsessions, Passions, and Courage of Elizabeth Taylor" (Cliff Street Books/HarperCollins, 352 pages, $25). It is still sort of riveting, in an epically trashy way.
Less importantly to the flock of execs, Lunar Plexus had begun playing the VIP Lounge upstairs. Now although my pass had the letters "VIP" on it, the light in the club apparently caused the bouncer to instead read "under no circumstances should this person be allowed upstairs." So I contented...
How to capture the soul of an age that has no soul? That was the task facing Bret Easton Ellis at the end of the '80s. For Ellis, the death of feeling among hip young urbanites was a criminal act. And so, in his black-comic tour de force novel...
Ellis didn't lack for formal audacity. He Cuisinarted a bunch of cultural influences, with Dostoyevsky, the '80s preppie-murder case and the original Psycho (Norman Bates=Patrick Bateman) sliced and spliced into an inversion of The Bonfire of the Vanities. In Tom Wolfe's novel, Wall Streeter Sherman McCoy...
The novel confused as many readers as it outraged. They simply didn't get Ellis' thesis: that the young millionaires who pushed paper all day and gazed glazedly at violent porn all night, and who got seizures of envy when a rival sported a smarter suit or business card, were...