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FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
…or, at least, The Most Essential 9:52 in All of Cinema Based on a Text By Bret Easton Ellis. Except for most of American Psycho . Well…maybe the Most Essential 9:52 in All of 80s Cinema Based on a Text By Bret Easton Eliis? Can we agree on that? In short: Less Than Zero has been uploaded to YouTube in several chunks. Embedding has been disabled by the request of user 80sTeenMovies , but you can watch...
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The Ravin' Picture Maven (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Case in point...Jami Gertz then and now... Bret Easton Ellis' book Less than Zero exploded into our culture in 1986, earning him fame, a movie deal and shining a light on a generation and culture that revealed itself, through Ellis's words, as self-indulgent, pointless and degenerate. Or so the preceding generation presumed. As all preceding generations presume when watching the follies of the youths....
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
As you'd expect of a compulsive collector, Richard Prince's study is full of stuff: you know the kind of thing – a Warhol Car Crash, a custom-bound first edition of Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, an original copy of Sylvia Plath's verse with handwritten notes by Ted Hughes. Prince isn't gesturing at these, though, but at an issue of French Vogue with a cheesy-looking model on the cover – a pseudo...
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Population Statistic (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
There’s a good deal to like about Dana Vachon’s “Mergers & Acquisitions”, a sort of 21st-Century blend of Bret Easton Ellis’ and Jay McInerney’s seminal ’80s novels. One of the more minor touches, but still worthy of notice, are the character names Vachon assigns to a group of haughty Latin American bankers who share an “unfortunate [...]
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Trashionista (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
I wrote about Megan Crane's comparison of Bret Easton Ellis and chick lit yesterday and last night I was thinking about it some more and I remembered American Psycho. I studied American Psycho at university and I can't tell you...
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Gawker (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Lord knows what kind of disturbing essays dark writers like David Lynch, Chuck Palahniuk, or Bret Easton Ellis might've written in a college class. But that shit will get you kicked out or committed...
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Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Lileks actually thinks its an important form of setting the scene and communicating with the reader to include mundane details like brand names. He's not wrong, because he's all about the brand name. It worked so well for Bret Easton Ellis with American Psycho.
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serialdeviant.org(y) (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Of the 1001, I’ve read: Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro Fury, Salman Rushdie Life of Pi, Yann Martel Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh The Secret History, Donna Tartt American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul, Douglas Adams Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams The Cider...
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FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Samuel L. Jackson has signed on to star in Unthinkable for director Gregor Jordan according to The Hollywood Reporter . Jordan recently completed production on The Informers , an adaptation of a Bret Easton Ellis novel starring Winona Ryder, Mickey Rourke and Billy Bob Thornton which is set to open this fall. Jackson will next be seen in Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace , due out September 19th. (Spanish)...
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Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
“There are very good writers that I would avoid at cocktail parties in New York, and some not-so-very-good writers who became close friends—and I’m not naming names.” Bret Easton Ellis , recipient of the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature, talks to Hungarian Literature Online : You have come to Hungary to receive the Budapest Grand Prize (previous recipients include Umberto Eco, Günter Grass and...
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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
At hlo Miklos M. Nagy interviews Bret Easton Ellis who isn't quite all humility .....
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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
It's time for the Budapest International Book Festival. A solid line-up, but the 'Guest of Honour author' is ... Bret Easton Ellis ? And the Guest of Honour country is China .....
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Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
(2002) Following a series of debauched co-eds as they drink, screw and snort their way into oblivion. Based on the novel by Bret Easton-Ellis.
