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Psycho Path: Tracing Norman Bates' Twisted Trail Through Page and Screen Part 3

17 March 2013 6:43 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

Welcome to the third installment of Psycho Path, a look at fictional madman Norman Bates from the Psycho franchise.

Intended to run in five parts, Psycho Path will focus on each of Norman’s adventures – in novels, films, and television series – while examining each incarnation of the character and the differences amongst them.

Check out past installments of Psycho Path: Tracing Norman Bates' Twisted Trail Through Page and Screen here

Part III: Third Time’s the Charm

When we last left Norman Bates, he was either dead or insane, depending on which Psycho II you’d like to refer to (book or film, respectively). With the novel series keeping idle for nearly a decade between books (the third and final chapter of Bloch’s Psycho run wouldn’t appear until 1990), the only offerings fans could find in the wake of each Psycho II were another film sequel and a failed »

- Jinx

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A Delicate Balance

10 February 2013 8:57 AM, PST | www.culturecatch.com | See recent CultureCatch news »

Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance, currently in revival through February 17th at the Berlind Theater at Princeton's McCarter Theater Center, is a beautifully mounted production: superb acting, marvelous direction, and the handsomest of set and costume designs. This is a "chamber drama" in that all the action takes place in one room -- the grand living room of a rich patrician Connecticut family. The cast consists of six players: an extended family of four and their very best friends, a couple who drop in unexpectedly, apparently intent on staying indefinitely.

Mr. Albee's better-known play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, is a psychological Grand Guignol about an alcohol-soaked combative childless couple. A Delicate Balance expands that comedic horror story motif to include "family life," which is likewise marinated in alcohol. This well-heeled family consists of a middle-aged couple, Tobias (John Glover) and Agnes (Kathleen Chalfant) [both shown above], their thirty-six-year-old thrice-divorced daughter, Julia (Francesca Faridany), and Agnes's alcoholic sister, »

- Jay Reisberg

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