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...really -- because A Perfect World isn't a western Psycho, it's a warped Shane. In that 1953 film, mysterious gunslinger Alan Ladd agrees to protect a homesteader's family against varmints and becomes a reluctant role model for the tenderfoot's young son. Here, Haynes is the bad guy, but he's mainly Shane. When Terry puts the make on Phillip, Butch avenges the assault. He gives Phillip lessons in backwoods manhood: how to smoke, cuss, dance, romance a waitress, drive a car, steal a car, rob a store and, of course, point a loaded gun at people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haynes! Come Back, Haynes! | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...presence here. She did not expect the "random e-mail," the knocks on the door at 2:30 in the morning, and the letter to "Norma Knows" soliciting advice on how to ask out a certain Harvard movie actress. (Her mother told her the letter-writer sounded "psycho.") One night at an event held at the Sheraton Commander, she was barraged by hordes of curious partygoers. "I had to run to the bathroom to hide," she said...

Author: By Sunah N. Kim, | Title: Hollywood or Chem 10? | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

What do you get when you blend the female psycho-killers of "Fatal Attraction" and "Basic Instinct" with unabashed, potentially idiotic slapstick? Carl Reiner's "Fatal Instinct," that's what. True to its synthetic title, the movie satirizes various psycho-thrillers of recent years, including "Cape Fear," "Body Heat," and "Sleeping with the Enemy...

Author: By Gil B. Lahav, | Title: Fatally Funny | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

...this reign of consumerist psycho-terror cannot last forever. Hearken closely, Mother Harvard: Rebecca's blue corn tortillas alone will not sate...

Author: By Christopher Capozzola, | Title: Down with The Shops: A Manifesto | 10/8/1993 | See Source »

...comping is silly. I enjoyed the Crimson news comp--I cannot tell a lie--but it aged me. I watched psycho-compers rise and fall; I watched my own stories crump; I stayed up late; I probably messed up the Tommy...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: The Season of Comptober | 10/8/1993 | See Source »

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