Word: sicko
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Biskind's book fleshes out Weinstein's psyche as well as his sicko behavior--and it ain't pretty. He's depicted delivering death threats like a movie mafioso, expecting fealty like a feudal lord and bringing woe upon anyone who asks for back-end profit participation. From Affleck to director Ed Zwick, friends and enemies alike unload their hysterical, often horrifying Harvey stories. Gasp as the mad mogul pushes aside his fellow Shakespeare in Love producers onstage at the Oscars! Cower as he throws stuff across the room! Wince as he chews out loyal employees! And the critics rave...
Good example: Cape Fear, with Peck as the head of a family menaced by all-time cunning sicko Robert Mitchum. At the climax, Peck trains a gun on the villain. Shoot 'im, Greg! But no. This time the good guy is not going to kill the bad guy; the rotter will be tried, convicted and imprisoned. A less confident actor might have let this verdict sound like weakness, but Peck sells the notion that life in jail is as unpleasant as a bullet...
This time the sacred monsters must battle not only their fellow-mutant nemesis Magneto (Ian McKellen) and the morph-o-matic Mystique (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) but also a figure familiar from a quillion adventure movies--the steely sicko military renegade. Stryker (Brian Cox) is an ex-Army conniver who would use X powers to evil ends and has a kung-fu cutie named Oyama (Kelly Hu) to kick start any fight. Stryker must contend with a late recruit to the coalition of the thrilling: Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming), whose powers include walking through walls, vanishing in a plume of fume...
...Sicko Bromley G. Sumilovitch ’03 is hoping that SARS comes to Boston so that people with heavy Boston accents will start pronouncing the disease’s name. “I caught wicked SAHS in Hahvahd Yahd,” he imagines locals saying to great comedic effect?...
Like Mackey, The Shield is a self-consciously different animal. Its envelope-pushing nudity and obscenity--it makes NYPD Blue look like Barney Miller--can be too showy, its sicko criminals too baroquely quirky. But it's already the most riveting player in the tapped-out field of cop dramas, a moral no-man's-land where crime fighting is tough, but justice is the hard part...