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...what shoes match his suit, and which dinette set best fits his non-existent personality. In this yuppie's life, IKEA is synonymous with orgasm. Enter Tyler Durden. Brad Pitt takes on the challenging role of this American psycho-- a soap salesman who lives as a squatter, steals a sportscar one day and ditches it the next, and takes random nightshift jobs to survive. Tyler wants "freedom" from yuppie existence and he makes it a point to obliterate any rules with which he comes in contact--he pees in customers' food, inserts frames of nudity into family films at random...

Author: By By SOMAN S. chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fight Club | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

Polk, who says he has never won anything before, compared winning the sportscar to "waking up in the morning and finding your laundry done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Win-a-Car | 4/9/1983 | See Source »

...PAUL and Adriana leave the restaurant and reach the engineer's flashy red sportscar, the waitress, until now aloof, looks her suitor in the eye and says in a low, seductive voice. "And now I want to show you the real middle of the world." The scene cuts to her bedroom, where the two quickly doff their inhibitions and their clothes and slip under the sheets, quickly reaching the first of the many climaxes that shape their deepening affair...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: A Film Only a Filmmaker Could Like | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

Jackie (Julie Christie), George's ex-girlfriend, is a sexy blonde who rides the Mercedes-Benz sportscar and wears the resplendent rings she receives from Lester (Jack Warden), an elderly, buffoon-like corporate executive, her beau of the moment. Lenny's aging wife Felicia (Lee Grant) is trying to fight off the years and deny her wrinkles by sleeping with George. Meanwhile, George becomes friendly with Lenny through Felicia, who introduces the two in the hope that her husband will give her lover a business loan. All the while George's steady girlfriend Jill (Goldie Hawn) slumps around with...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Soggy Suds | 4/10/1975 | See Source »

Hopefully, Dr. Nicholi can be encouraged to expand on his critical analysis, offering insights into other forms of transportation. For example, what is the significance of my also driving a sportscar? What about my sailboat (now that I think of it, the mast is certainly quite phallic)? What permanent damage to my personality might be caused by my riding the MBTA...

Author: By Robert H. Kuehn jr., | Title: The Mail 'CYCLOLOGICAL PROBLEMS' | 10/20/1970 | See Source »

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