A sniper’s mark from realm of fiction - The killer’s calling card reveals echoes of old movie

MSNBC ^ | 10/10/02 | Paul Farhi

[areafiftyone]

Oct. 10 — Life sometimes has a disturbing habit of mimicking art. Charles Manson’s 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 Stone’s “Natural Born Killers.” And now — maybe it’s 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?” Baldwin’s 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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...He's an ALEC BALDWIN fan too?? MAN...he IS nuts!

[Liberal Classic]

Verily, I am God: there is no God but I: so serve thou me, and establish regular prayer for celebrating my praise. -- Koran 20:14

[hispanarepublicana]

From "The Regulators" by Richard Bachman/Stephen King review:

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...

[Oztrich Boy]

I think the police should arrest Alec Baldwin and beat a confession out of him.

Isn't that your solution for everything?;^)

[Dog Gone]

Yes. The solution to Global Warming is to arrest Alec Baldwin and beat a confession out of him.

[aristeides]

“Malice” aired on the TBS cable network last Thursday evening, only four days before the tarot card turned up in the woods outside a Bowie middle school.

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.

[mad_as_he$$]

We always only used the Ace of Spades and then only in their mouth.

[fire_eye]

I think the police should arrest Alec Baldwin and beat a confession out of him.

I hope they're wearing rubber gloves...

[pankot]

It was a book before it was a movie. I can't find my copy but the cops ought to check out a copy--may have clues to this nutcase. (an ex-cop)