Word: psychopathic
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...such as it is, concerns a black convict named Lake (Raymond St. Jacques) who escapes from prison, where he has spent five years on a trumped-up charge of rape and murder. Lake lights out to bring the real culprit to justice, only to be sidetracked by a jealous psychopath (Kevin McCarthy) who wants him to bump off his wealthy wife (Dana Wynter...
Pleasence admits to being typecast as a sinister psychopath in what he calls "glossy movies," such as You Only Live Twice and The Night of the Generals. He doesn't mind, partly because "evil people seem more interesting," partly because of the money he can make. This means a house on the Thames, with a boat at the bottom of the garden and plenty of elbowroom for his wife and two young daughters...
...moral of this mocking autobiographical burlesque-although not perhaps the one intended by the author-is that if making an enemy is unavoidable and the choice is between a writer and a psychopath, the prudent citizen will choose the psychopath. Konstantin Stanislavsky, the Russian director whose method of acting became the Method, had the imprudence to anger Writer Mikhail Bulgakov. He got away with it until 27 years after his own death, and 25 years after Bulgakov's. For most of that period Bulgakov's work was banned in the Soviet Union and unknown to the rest...
...lives down the road, and enjoy occasional outside dates. For years, I have believed that I was enjoying a state of contentment that is rare on this earth-and that I was presenting an enviable public image. Now, with lightning suddenness, I learn that I am nothing but a psychopath and an object of public pity. Melancholy has gripped...
...only issue is whether a witness is truthful. To be sure, said the court, the trial judge in the Alger Hiss case set an important precedent by permitting psychiatric testimony impeaching the credibility of Government Witness Whittaker Chambers. But that step is not necessary in all cases. "A psychopath," said the court, "has the capacity to observe, recollect and communicate, and is therefore a competent witness." If he is a liar, witnesses can testify that he has "a bad reputation for truth and veracity." After that, it is up to the jury to decide whether he actually lied...