In "Glamorama", this "American Psycho" author takes on the world of supermodels
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CNN - Review: 'Glamorama' - September 29, 1999 - CNN.com  Sep 29, 1999 ... Review: Author is 'too hip for his own good' ... the latest novel from Bret Easton Ellis, author of "Less Than Zero" and "American Psycho." ... Life in this world is narrow and shallow, but very intense. ... Supermodel terrorists?
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BOOKS OF THE TIME; Fashion Victims Take Terrorist Chic Seriously ...  Jan 5, 1999 ... Michiko Kakutani reviews Glamorama, novel by Bret Easton Ellis; photo ... This glutinous hodgepodge of a book takes all the most glaring ... a group of models turned terrorists who wear Kevlar-lined Armani ... In pages reminiscent of Mr. Ellis's willfully perverse novel ''American Psycho'' (1990), the reader is...
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Lesser Than Zero - The New York Times  Jan 24, 1999 ... ''American Psycho,'' after all, was a bloated, stultifyingly repetitive, overhyped novel ... The nominal plot of ''Glamorama'' traces the disintegration of a young, ... ''You can move planets with this,'' one of the evil models says. ... the author wants to say, meaningful identity is obliterated and everyone becomes...
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Bret Easton Ellis Plays Tom Wolfe - Esquire  May 30, 2008 ... Ostensibly a book about supermodels and terrorism, Glamorama ... except that whereas American Psycho took nearly four hundred pages to say that money is bad, Glamorama takes nearly five hundred pages to say that celebrity is bad. ... into a world that makes one's navel look capacious by comparison.
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Glamorama - Wikipedia  Glamorama is a 1998 novel by American writer Bret Easton Ellis. Glamorama is set in and satirizes the 1990s, specifically celebrity culture and consumerism. Time describes the novel as "a screed against models and celebrity. ... Namedropping and commoditization have a depersonalizing effect (a world reduced to "sheen...
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American Beauty (1999) - IMDb  Drama  A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with ... Videos. American Beauty -- Lester's wife hates him, his daughter Jane regards him with contempt  American Beauty -- Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life...
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The original wild child - Independent.ie  Oct 6, 2013 ... "They say, 'I read my mum's copies of your books under the covers when I was 12 ... Offering advice on seductive desire is simply part of her make-up. ... along with elder sister Joan  a future Hollywood icon of prestige and excess ... although probably no more so than 'Lethal Seduction's' Dick Cockranger.
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Outlaw Journalist The Life And Times Of Hunter S Thompson | Free ...  Discusses the life and career of Hunter S. Thompson, focusing on his popular ... for such works as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas recounts the drug- and sex-fueled ... voices in American literature, Kingdom of Fear traces the course of Hunter S. ... his epic run for sheriff of Aspen on the Freak Power ticket, or the sensational...
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the points of view in psycho  ... screaming: Mother, O God, Mother, blood, blood. At that moment, a static low-angle shot shows the Bates house that looks more mysterious than ever [49:30].
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Psycho (1960 film) - Wikipedia  Psycho is a 1960 American psychological horror film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by Joseph Stefano, starring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles and Martin Balsam, and was based on ..... was being hidden. As Janet Leigh put it, this gave Hitchcock more options for his camera.
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One Writer Remembers Horst P. Horst as a Retrospective of ... - Vogue  Sep 2, 2014 ... Muriel Maxwell American Vogue Cover, July 1, 1939 ... in my childish opinion, the most exotic and exciting woman in the worldand Horst was one of her closest friends. .... I was at a friend's and the music video for Madonna's Vogue came on MTV. ... I would keep that private version of Ammah to myself.
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Self-Made Supermodels | Rhizome  Sep 8, 2016 ... The celebrity I began to create was a hyper sexy, cyber savvy, ... Mainstream media favors agency models and celebrity users well over IG Models. .... A quick look at some of the top female celebrity users (@beyonce and...
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Mad-Eyes - Madonna news headlines - November 2004  Here's the story of Saman who was in the queue at Selfridges. ... Also in the queue some American lady was saying that she had to go past Madonna's home to ..... Today Madonna did a book signing of her new childrens book The Adventures Of Abdi. .... Pop star Madonna's daughter has written a story which is featured in a...
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Psycho (1960 film) - Wikipedia  Psycho is a 1960 American psychological horror film directed and produced by Alfred ... She prepares to take a shower, unaware that Norman is spying on her. ... He eventually comes across the Bates Motel, where Norman's behavior arouses .... Though Stefano had worked on only one film before, Hitchcock agreed to meet...
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Amazon.com: Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer ...  Want to know what the carpet looked like in the Barbizon Hotel? ... A fictionalized autobiography about a woman's descent into mental illness in the middle of ... An interesting book with information about Sylvia Plath I didn't know - and I've read ... Winder writes about Sylvia Plath's time in NYC working as a guest editor of the...
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Jeopary Questions page 1716 - MUSICIANS - TriviaBistro.com  MUSICIANS: She's the glamorous lead singer seen here ... CIRCUSES: The tattered, unshaven hobo type of this performer caught on in American circuses ... This former VP & Freemason launched a conspiracy to take over the U.S. Southwest.
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Full text of "Vogue" - Internet Archive  Anne K. Bingham Cambridge, MA 26 VOGUE JULY 1994 IT, 1 YOU ;>iOVE THE ... I'm glad you had Bridget Hall, Bra di, and Niki Taylor on the cover. .... PETA's remarkable tolerance of its spokes- models' wayward w ays may be ...... Her pol hubby, who's having an affair with a centerfold model from Georgia, wants the...
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Book Excerpt: 'Madonna' by Andrew Morton - ABC News  Nov 6, 2001 ... In Andrew Morton's new book, Madonna, the biographer reveals new details ... the sparkling, flashing neon interior lights twinkling brighter than the early-evening stars. .... She takes something that is totally over with the in-crowd in New .... and sly humor is in the mold of Mae West, the American film actress,...