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  • Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen Not Happy to Find Themselves Linked to UCSB Shooter

    05/27/2014 10:50:42 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 18 replies
    New York Magazine ^ | 5/27 | Caroline Bankoff
    On Monday, the Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday published an op-ed drawing a connection between UCSB shooter Elliot Rodger and "the entertainment industry he grew up in." (The 22-year-old's father, Peter Rodger, worked as an assistant director on The Hunger Games.) Of Rodger's chilling video confession, Hornaday wrote, "With his florid rhetoric of self-pity, aggression and awkwardly forced 'evil laugh,' Rodger resembled a noxious cross between Christian Bale's slick sociopath in 'American Psycho,' the thwarted womanizer in James Toback’s 'The Pick-Up Artist' and every Bond villain in the canon." But she also brought up the ostensibly harmless characters found...