Word: psycho
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Certain words cannot be said out loud without setting off a series of complicated psycho-cultural explosions: the N word among African-Americans, the F word among gays; the C word among Chinese-Americans. Italian-Americans have a similar relationship with a two-syllable word beginning with G that is actually a man's name. And their feelings burst out loud when MTV began promoting its new reality show Jersey Shore, which an off-camera announcer declared would feature the "hottest, tannest craziest Guidos" in New Jersey's beachside communities. Wait, did MTV really just say "Guido...
...marry someone else. All these motifs appear in the script that Anders Thomas Jensen wrote for Susanne Bier's 2004 Danish film Brodre, of which Brothers is a nearly scene-by-scene, sometimes line-by-line, Americanization. Except for a few stunt exercises, like Gus Van Sant's Psycho and Michael Haneke's remake of his own Funny Games, I can't think of a movie that so closely adheres to its original. (The new film's only capitulation to Hollywood dogma is the way it reduced its characters' ages from about 40 to about...
...Romance? Yeah, you heard the man. That's the jig with lines like, "I want your psycho, your vertical schtick [hey!]" and "I'm a free bitch, baby!" The song is the lead single off of Lady Gaga's second album, "The Fame Monster," and the music video's been getting heavy circulation in recent days, with its liberal use of "Thriller" moves and the Twist, and a never-ending series of montages of Lady Gaga in extraterrestrial outfits that FlyBy typically reserves for Halloween...
...earlier version of this post stated incorrectly that "I want your psycho, your vertical stick" is a line from the song "Bad Romance." In fact, the line is, "I want your psycho, your vertical schtick...
...Fanning, Christopher Reeves, and Portia de Rossi into a shocking and fantastic narrative, Shady explains “I’m as ill as can be / my appeal is to serial killers, what a pill is to me / killing so villainously / still as maniacal on the Nyquil and psycho as Michael Myers.” The connection between Eminem’s thoughts on B-list celebrities and 50’s threats of murder, however, is barely logical. Indeed, like most of “Before I Self Destruct,” “Psycho?...