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THIS IS NOT AN EXIT: THE FICTIONAL WORLD OF BRET EASTON ELLIS
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As Mary Harron's shrewd adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's infamous American Psycho hits theaters, it's as good a time as any for a critical reevaluation of the '80s literary wunderkind, whose novels captured everything survivors now claim was wrong with that glitzy decade: the passionless hedonism, the shallow glamour, the rampant consumerism, the selfishness, the drugs. In lieu of anything critical, this documentary puff piece from ITV's South Bank Show — which never g... read more leave a comment
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Our favorite star-crossed Loch Ness Monster hunters are back together this week, hot on the trail of the Big Bad Specimen A that Laura managed to tag last time. Seriously, if these two aren't MFEO (that's Made For Each Other) in their obsessive-compulsive Captain Ahab routine, I don't know who is. When Rich gets a load of Laura's shrine-o'-newspaper-clippings, he tells her, "I thought I'd gone overboard." Guess what, Surface cast? I'm instituting a dollar-a-pun rule — it's a crisp greenback in the jar every time you spout a bit of cutesy, water-related dialogue. (Uh-oh. I don't owe a buck for "spout," do I?) After some death-defying highway hot-doggery, the pair manage to score their first above-water sighting — alongside an entire marina full of tourists. We've got monster on tape! Oh wait, no we don't. Thanks a lot, electromagnetic superpowers. Whose side are you on, anyway? Hip! Hip! Hooray for the B-story: Nim's loose in the Piggly Wiggly! Now this is the sort of read more

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