Posted on 10/10/2002 10:56:58 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Oct. 10 Life sometimes has a disturbing habit of mimicking art. Charles Mansons followers scrawled the name of a Beatles song, Helter Skelter, on the walls of a house owned by one of their victims. The shootings at a school in West Paducah, Ky., in 1997 allegedly were inspired by a scene from a Leonardo DiCaprio movie, The Basketball Diaries. A 1994 murder in Texas bore disturbing similarities to events depicted in Oliver Stones Natural Born Killers. And now maybe its just a coincidence there are echoes of an old movie in a new crime.
THE MOVIE, MALICE, is a psychological thriller released in 1993 and starring Alec Baldwin. You ask me if I have a God complex? Baldwins character, a surgeon, says when challenged during a legal deposition. He pauses dramatically before declaring, Let me tell you something: I am God!
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It is a summer afternoon on Poplar Street in Wentworth, Ohio, and the 14-year-old who delivers the local shopper is biking his route. A weird-looking red van waits, motor running, at one end of the block. When the vehicle coasts down the street, the "fun" begins. Its windows roll down to let shotgun barrels protrude. The boy is blasted off his bike, the first of many victims of a wave of assaults by a strange company of cartoonish, futuristic shock troopers and western-movie cowboys...
Isn't that your solution for everything?;^)
What time did it air? It seems unlikely the sniper would have watched it, in view of the fact that he was shooting that Haitian man on Georgia Ave. in D.C. at 9:20 PM that Thursday evening.
I hope they're wearing rubber gloves...
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