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Article: Bad Imitation.(Oliver Stone movie finds murderous admirers: 'Natural Born Killers')
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- National Review
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- December 31, 1998
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An Oliver Stone movie finds murderous admirers.
Mr. Schweizer is a media fellow at the Hoover Institution and co-author of Disney: The Mouse Betrayed (Regnery).
ON the night of March 5, 1995, two teenagers, Sarah Edmondson and Ben Darrus, spent the night together in a Tahlequah, Oklahoma, cabin watching movies and consuming LSD tabs. Actually, they watched only one movie that night, over and over again: Natural Born Killers, Oliver Stone's 1994 film about two serial murderers, Mickey and Mallory, who become celebrities. Ben loved the film and had already seen it several times.
Early the next morning, they hit the road in Sarah's Nissan Maxima ...