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Rodriguez contended that he lived in mortal fear of Escobar. "Mr. Escobar is sick, a psycho, a lunatic," he said. "He knows he's lost the war against the state. He lives now only to destroy." Their enmity, Rodriguez said, began in 1987 when he refused to help Escobar kidnap Bogota mayoral candidate Andres Pastrana. When Rodriguez declined, Escobar shouted, "Whoever is not with me is against me." Rodriguez blamed Escobar for the August 1989 assassination of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan Sarmiento, which ignited the campaign to push the cocaine princes from Colombia. Rodriguez claimed he had warned Galan...
...always been a market for scary stories and vicarious acts of violence. But true horror can be bloodless, as in Henry James' matchless tale, The Turn of the Screw. Even reckless violence, as in the old-time western, need not debauch the human form. No, if offerings like American Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs have anything to tell us about ourselves, it must be that at this particular historical moment, we have come to hate the body...
VIOLENT FEMMES: WHY DO BIRDS SING? (Slash/Reprise). Ornery, typically strange and downright swell. When these three tie into a song like Life Is a Scream, they make the inside of your head sing like Janet Leigh in her Psycho shower...
...Hollywood, dying is hard but comedy is easy. The original Saturday Night Live wires have frayed lately, but Bill Murray will open the season with this week's psycho farce, What About Bob? Billy Crystal will dude it up out West in City Slickers, Martin Short will bank on Pure Luck, and John Candy will go Delirious. The easiest hit to pick is a farce sequel, The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear...
Everyone knows, more than they would like perhaps, about the nature, the publishing history and the unspeakable horrors of Bret Easton Ellis' new novel, American Psycho. However broadly it seeks to indict, in indelible, blood-red ink, the excesses and depravities of the degenerate '80s, the book has certainly raised a threshold of taste, or psychic pain, much higher than most readers would like (much as the smash movie The Silence of the Lambs exposes even toddlers to a level of psychological violence that would have been unthinkable -- or at least less powerful -- some years ago). A protagonist who eats...