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Here is the pseudo event not everyone has been waiting for: the publication of Bret Easton Ellis' controversial American Psycho (Vintage; $11), the sophomoric, overwritten satire of the yuppie '80s that contains the most gratuitous descriptions of sadistic murder and mayhem ever contained in a general trade novel. Simon & Schuster decided to surrender a $300,000 advance to Ellis and not publish his book after staff protests and press stories threatened risks greater than anticipated rewards. Snapped up at a bargain price by Random House for its Vintage division, the manuscript has undergone the editorial equivalent of liposuction...
...Soviet President has immense powers on paper but little ability to rule in the separatist regions. Legvold predicts that "Gorbachev will try to sit on these people through ((Defense Minister)) Yazov. He wants it to be with as little recrimination from abroad and as little mayhem in the area as possible." After Lithuania, any republic that does not knuckle under to Moscow could feel the fist next...
Vampires, for all the mayhem they cause, are pretty boring people. It probably sounded like a good idea on paper: Dark Shadows, a daytime hit on ABC in the late 1960s, resurrects itself as an NBC prime-time series. Ben Cross (Chariots of Fire) plays Barnabas Collins, the mysterious "cousin from England" who shows up at the Collinwood estate and sets about relieving various relatives and townspeople of their red cells. Producer/director Dan Curtis (who did the original show) has given the series a dark, somber look and a high-toned cast that includes Jean Simmons as the Collins family...
...guilty as the actual perpetrator. Still, a jury could choose to convict only the gnasher on one of the meatier charges facing the pair, or a judge could decide to impose a more severe punishment. One of the four counts against each of the 21-year-old brothers, aggravated mayhem, carries a mandatory life sentence...
MARKED FOR DEATH. He can't act -- don't ask him -- but Steven Seagal is the new Brahmin of brawn. His latest essay in mindless movie mayhem, in which our sullen hunk of a hero breaks the will (also the fingers and spines) of some Jamaican drug dealers, is one of the season's big hits. See it and wonder...