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Besides, the idea that Americans would want to institute "a whole range of psycho-sexual repressions," as one commentator put it, is ludicrous. We like our personal freedom too much...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: Ding, Dong, the Witch Is Dead | 11/4/1992 | See Source »

...also more laughs. Stiller is capable of turning out a dead-on TV or movie parody, like his takeoff on Cape Fear, with a grownup Eddie Munster as the De Niro-esque psycho. But he rarely settles for the frisson of a good impersonation; his sketches usually give the satiric knife an extra twist or two. In "Amish Studs," the leering host coaxes double entendres out of every innocent comment from chaperoned contestants ("I was impressed with his incredible plowing ability"). In "Legends of Springsteen," a New Jersey rock fan recalls the time when the Boss made a surprise appearance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twisting The Satiric Knife | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...provides. It has been illegal since 1985 but is easily obtainable on the black market. Others frown on drug and alcohol use, stressing that intoxication is extraneous to the rave experience. "The rave scene isn't about fashion or getting high," says DJ Disaster, 26, who is co- producing "Psycho Splash '92," a rave taking place this week in an aquatic theme park outside St. Louis. "It's about forgetting who's going to be President and having a good time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tripping the Night Fantastic | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

...Female could have avoided a lot of the grief she suffers at the hands of her roommate-from-hell Hedy (Jennifer Jason Leigh). If Hedy's possessive rages hadn't given Allie a hint, the dead pet would have. And in Raising Cain, none of the cops has seen Psycho. Otherwise they might have been suspicious of that tall creature in a cheap shoulder-length wig sneaking out of the motel, while all homicide was breaking loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twin Piques | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

...Palma. He has been considered a Hitchcock groupie for so long that, by now, the slur seems like a badge. The plot of Raising Cain -- about a child psychologist (John Lithgow) still under the spell of his mad-scientist father and an evil twin named Cain -- swipes from Psycho and Michael Powell's sicko classic Peeping Tom. What's fun here is that De Palma has rung cunning changes on Hitchcockian twists. What if the car that Norman Bates watched sink into the swamp had a woman inside, clawing to save her life? What if abnormal Norman were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twin Piques | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

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