Word: psychos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...failure on our part, then we deserve some of this heat." St. Martin's is not the first U.S. publisher to yank a controversial book off its list. In the most celebrated recent instance, Simon & Schuster decided in 1990 not to release Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho after advance reviewers complained about its voyeuristic scenes of women being tortured. (Knopf later bought the discarded manuscript and published it in paperback.) But the St. Martin's case is more complex because it involves a work of nonfiction rather than a question of artistic license. Should publishers vouch for the accuracy...
...process, the editor may also make art. Any cinephile's collection of favorite movie moments will include the Odessa Steps sequence from Eisenstein's Potemkin, the Citizen Kane dinner-table scene, the shower murder in Psycho, the final killings in Bonnie and Clyde--all of which were created not so much on the set as on the editing table. Try to imagine these scenes in single long takes, and you start to appreciate editing's vital contribution: it gives films the collision of images that creates a collision of emotions. It has been the primary technical touchstone for great directors...
...trite grotesqueness, though, Alice cannot be tossed off as another American Psycho, the famously godawful Bret Easton Ellis novel to which it has been likened. Ellis' treatment of sadism has a dopey campiness that Homes is incapable of. She takes her crazed protagonist very seriously, describing his every abhorrent desire in mind-boggling detail that amounts to a twisted, writerly artfulness all its own. And as in her last book, In a Country of Mothers, the story of a psychoanalyst's debilitating obsession with a young patient, Homes shows a knack for intertwining two characters' pathologies. In Alice...
...York City, the son of a sportswear salesman, Balsam went from the career-minting Actors Studio to live '50s TV to the movies, where he became a star portraying men who would never be stars. He was an uncertain juror in Twelve Angry Men (1957); a doomed detective in Psycho (1960); a Navy doctor utterly at sea in the moral morass of the nuclear age in The Bedford Incident (1965); and a hardworking family man at odds with his unreliable brother in A Thousand Clowns (1965), the role that resulted in a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. From...
...campus is a far cry from the ministerial asceticism taught here during Harvard's first two centuries. But don't mistake the current eroticism of daily life for the free love of the 1960s. No, Harvard is far from free, and far from lovely, in its complex of psycho-sexual mores...