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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 accidentally kills someone and gets hounded by an entire city. Patrick, who works at the same fictional firm as McCoy (Pierce and Pierce, if you get the joke's knife point), slaughters half a dozen people, or maybe 20 or 40; and not only does he get away with...
DIED. DEFOREST KELLEY, 79, actor best known for his role as the humane Dr. Leonard ("Bones") McCoy on Star Trek's U.S.S. Enterprise; in Woodland Hills, Calif. On the cult hit TV series and in six film versions, Dr. McCoy battled Leonard Nimoy's hyperlogical Mr. Spock, whose emotional pulselessness McCoy disdained. Though he could be melodramatic at the prospect of treating aliens--"I'm just a country doctor!"--he never let Captain Kirk down...
SHOPPING: Montreal is stylish, and the Canadian dollar is cheap, so shop lots! At Hatfield and McCoy, and elsewhere on Mount Royal and St. Denis, you can find unique and elegant retro, go-go, hippie and chic refurbished clothing...
...Hanks was suddenly the new surefire romantic-comedy guy. In three years he did seven films, mostly raffish comedies. It took Penny Marshall's Big (Break No. 3) to change that. Now he was so hot he was cast in roles that didn't suit him, like Sherman McCoy in The Bonfire of the Vanities or the thinks-he's-going-to-die hero of Joe versus the Volcano...
What ultimately separates Charlie from Sherman McCoy is his realization, on some level, of just how foolish his egotism and macho stunts are. Despite this self-knowledge, Charlie simply cannot resist defending his alpha male status in any situation. For example, having just been humiliated by his creditors, Croker decides to reassert his control by capturing a rattlesnake barehanded: "He knew that what he was about to do was foolhardy--and he knew he would do it anyway...there was no other choice but the foolhardiest possible...