Word: sociopathic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Understanding Adam is a tough task for those hobbled by age or taste. The typical Sandler comedy (not this year's amiable The Wedding Singer, in which he plays a borderline grownup, but Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore and the new film) is about a nerdy sociopath who learns to channel his rage into an acceptable format: winning a spelling bee, playing golf or tackling football players. "You don't have what they call the social skills," he is told in The Waterboy; that is Sandler's gimmick and, for many, his charm. The plot is a competition for which...
...turns out that the only thing harder than finding the alleged Unabomber after 18 years, 200 suspects, thousands of interviews and one of the longest, most expensive manhunts in FBI history, is making him sit down and shut up. Theodore Kaczynski, lonely hermit, brilliant sociopath, murderous wood carver, has been fighting with his lawyers for months. They wanted to mount a mental-illness defense; he wanted no part of it. Kaczynski made it clear that he would do anything, even fire his attorneys, to keep them from portraying him as a "sickie...
...sure didn't look that way in 1989, after Lincoln bit the desert dust and Keating faced a series of highly publicized trials. Prosecutors vilified him as a high-living, white-collar sociopath, and he was convicted on no less than 90 federal and state counts of fraud, racketeering and conspiracy. The main charges: that he directed the sale of fraudulently marketed junk bonds to tens of thousands of Lincoln customers and that he orchestrated a series of sham real estate transactions to inflate Lincoln's profits. Packed off to prison in handcuffs and chains under the glare...
...triumph in outsmarting them. The set piece in both films was blowing up an automobile: sexual revenge as car-nage. But that was not nearly so explosive as the smoulder of Sharon Stone's sexual menace in Basic Instinct. In elevating or degrading the '40s femme fatale to pansexual sociopath status, Stone showed that a gorgeous woman's predatory stare can be as piercing as an ice pick...
...dozens of FBI agents celebrated at the Seven-Up Guest Ranch a few miles from Lincoln--which has become their temporary headquarters. They are sure they have their man. They believe they have not only stopped an 18-year crime spree but also bagged an exceptional specimen: the brilliant sociopath who made himself virtually invisible. Says Ken Thompson: "The boys in the basement at Quantico are going to spend years studying this case...