Word: psychopaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charge to the jury, in the form of a letter from a Sing Sing convict named Walter Sher. The letter claimed that one of Mosley's witnesses had admitted to Sher that he himself had killed The Hawk. In an emotional plea, Mosley argued that Sher was a psychopath, who had written the letter without even being asked, hoping to receive favors in prison from friends of Franzese. Sher's testimony, although unsubstantiated, was enough to raise doubts in the minds of the jurors. All four defendants were acquitted, and Mosley was left to smother his rage...
Striving to placate all factions, the film actually represents none. One moment Che is a cultural hero; the next he is a messianic psychopath. As for Russia and the CIA, the film makes them worse than villains by reducing them to bystanders who have nothing to do with the central melodrama. The driven, half-poetic half-delusive doctor has become a worldwide legend in the past three years. Though his body was seen and identified, he is still rumored to be alive somewhere in the mountains of South America. If anyone doubts Che's death he has only...
Herlihy's second play has two characters, though one of them does not utter a word. She is Lonesome Sally (Rochelle Oliver), a hooker shacked up in a motel room with a black-clad psychopath (Larry Bryggman) who calls himself Terrible Jim Fitch and robs churches for a living. Lonesome Sally is in a state of shock; Terrible Jim has already cut up her face, and during his long rant of self-justification and jaunty mockery and bewildered rage it becomes clear that her revenge will be to maneuver him into murdering her. Unfortunately, the tension and terror...
...show is more abstract than erotic, and terribly sedate. The girl is bound to a chair and gagged most of the time, and initially clothed. Possibly the most exciting scene in this distinctly lethargic drama is the one in which she is undressed by her captor, a soft-spoken psychopath (Robert Drivas) who recounts in a nonstop monologue how the first girl he loved ditched him and then went mad, and how he abandoned another woman who then committed suicide. McNally's point seems to be that humans ought to manage the business of love with antlike efficiency...
...location in Boston, confidently supplies the answer. He is Albert DeSalvo,* a lumpish schizophrene with a wife and two kids. Most of the time DeSalvo (Tony Curtis) is a brooding but law-abiding mechanic. But there are moments when he turns into another self, a compulsive, soft-spoken psychopath who can kill at the drop of a door latch...