Word: psycho
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Executioner's Song demonstrated, the networks will take the occasional chance. Whatever else may have been wrong with The Executioner's Song, and there was plenty, it did not suffer from a failure of nerve. Did General Sarnoff ever believe his network would show a psycho jailbird decking a girlfriend when she refused to have anal intercourse? The ultimate point of watching Gary Gilmore (Tommy Lee Jones) get ready to face the firing squad may have been right at the end of the rifle barrels, but it would be nice to think that the license NBC granted Producer...
Rothman and Lichter call this phenomenon the "protean form of psycho-political rebellion" because the (Jewish) rebels sought out "change, flux, and fluidity... [aiming] at the continual destruction of social institutions, insofar as they interfere[d] with individual experimentation...
...guided by Robert Pittman, a 28-year-old Videokind who, in his pinstriped Brooks Brothers suit, looks as if he would be more at home listening to the Brandenburg Concertos than the Clash. A veteran of rock radio, Pittman is an apostle of "narrowcasting" and "psycho-graphics." He believes in cable's ability to reach a specific audience, in this case, ages twelve to 34, whose members offer a distinct marketing profile. Apparently Madison Avenue is being convinced. Although MTV has yet to break even, so far 100 national advertisers have pushed their products on the service...
Still, there is something distant and unemotional about the way Benton presents her mysterious case. As the movie proceeds, one finds oneself examining its references (Vertigo, North by Northwest, Rear Window, Psycho, Spellbound) rather than getting truly involved with the story. Soon a longing for the rat-tat-tattiness of sleazier Hitchcock knockoffs like Dressed to Kill steals over the viewer...
...Sturges Repertory Company. Sturges, whose spitball farces (The Lady Eve, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) sped moviegoers giddily through World War II, might appreciate Bartel's continuance of that tradition, as actor and writerdirector, in high-camp style. His first feature, Private Parts (1973), was a Psycho drama about a winsome lad who makes love to a lifesize, water-filled, clear plastic doll in the image of his beloved. In the mid-'70s Bartel made two manic car-chase movies, Death Race 2000 and Cannonball, whose plots inspired The Cannonball Run. For his presence in that...