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Although he is to sputter with psycho-delusional rage against foreigners, Jews, bankers, and his top-ranking officers as the hopelessness of his situation becomes increasingly clear, the Führer first appears on screen kindly introducing himself to prospective secretaries, coddling Blondi, his German shepherd, and consoling a nervous Traudl over her typing errors...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hitler's Downfall Rescreened | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...breeds,” who, as hybrid demon-human creatures, can cross the border between heaven and hell and upset “the balance” between God and Satan’s bid for human souls. Young Constantine’s terrifying visions classify him as a psycho. As a result of the trauma of his visions and equally horrific “therapy,” he commits suicide...

Author: By Steven N. Jacobs, Laura E. Kolbe, and Scoop A. Wasserstein, S | Title: Movie Reviews | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

...world of Indian cinema as the Queen of Bollywood, plays Lalita, imbuing her character with the perfect self-conscious and defensive quality of someone being put up on display. Conversely, Martin Henderson, who plays Will Darcy, looks startlingly like Christian Bale’s Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, giving the character just the right sense of a healthy, wealthy, pampered and somewhat wooden American playboy...

Author: By Steven N. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bride and Prejudice Review | 2/11/2005 | See Source »

...SEGT comes from the new field of psycho-oncology, which explores the role the mind might play in both causing and treating cancer. It remains on the fringe of medicine, and insofar as it delves into causation is likely to remain so: while stress has been shown to compromise the immune system, there's no strong evidence that these changes are significant in the development of cancer. But as a treatment adjunct, psycho- oncology is creeping into the mainstream. Self-help groups for cancer patients at all stages of the disease are common in Australia. But SEGT, the brainchild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sisters For Life | 10/27/2004 | See Source »

DIED. JANET LEIGH, 77, coolly seductive Hollywood star, who earned immortality as the cinema's prime slasher victim in Hitchcock's Psycho; of vasculitis; in Beverly Hills, Calif. She could have settled for being Tony Curtis' wife (for 11 years) and Jamie Lee's mother. But Leigh had a gaze as alert and sexy as any in movies. It bored into Frank Sinatra's frazzled psyche in The Manchurian Candidate; mixed fear and fire as a captive in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. Even after she'd been killed in the Psycho shower (a model doubled her in some shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: JANET LEIGH | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

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