padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
sounds right. seems like he was badly effected by reviews/attacks, got quite defensive.I think Ellis himself comes across as so disingenous and such a provocateur that any defense he mounts makes people increasingly suspicious
he's definitely a smart guy (how could he not be), shame he tends only to pop up for odious and/or grasping reasons the last couple decades.
Glamorama is where he starts rewriting the same book to diminishing returns, LTZ + AP hollowed out
all the lists of names and sex and violence (which I would agree is often gratuitous here) just themselves, no greater sum of parts
dated in a very bad way, unlike American Psycho which is dated in the best of ways
there are some potentially interesting ideas about celebrity/social capital (and possibly, their relation to violence) unfortunately lost in the mix
the Zoolander rip-off angle is pretty amusing