Word: psychos
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...American Psycho...
...next effort is The Autograph Man, a leaner novel about a half-Chinese, half-Jewish autograph hunter that is peopled with porn freaks, movie stars and sexual deviants. She is determined to write a daring book, perhaps more along the lines of American Psycho, which she considers the finest book about the '80s. "I don't want to be on my best behavior anymore," she warns. With this pungent debut, she has certainly earned the right to misbehave...
Willem Dafoe, (2) Jesus in 1988's The Last Temptation of Christ. Dafoe is in American Psycho with...
...Although these sin-seekers believe the graffiti is the work of a deranged psycho single resident, they concede that it may be a joke based on the success of the movie Seven. They also surmise that the culprit is a current student or recent graduate. The two hunters plan to continue the search for sins and sinner...
Ellis didn't lack for formal audacity. He Cuisinarted a bunch of cultural influences, with Dostoyevsky, the '80s preppie-murder case and the original Psycho (Norman Bates=Patrick Bateman) sliced and spliced into an inversion of The Bonfire of the Vanities. In Tom Wolfe's novel, Wall Streeter Sherman McCoy accidentally kills someone and gets hounded by an entire city. Patrick, who works at the same fictional firm as McCoy (Pierce and Pierce, if you get the joke's knife point), slaughters half a dozen people, or maybe 20 or 40; and not only does he get away with...