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I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains (Real and Imagined)

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by Chuck Klosterman

SportsCenter (TV series), 18

  Sports Illustrated, 16, 171

  Springsteen, Bruce, 27–28, 29

  Stalin, Joseph, 189–91

  “Stand” (R.E.M.), 30

  Starr, Kenneth, 115, 121–22, 125, 126, 128

  Starr Report, 109

  Star Wars film series, 6–7, 140

  steroids, 197–98

  Sting, The (film), 42

  Stingley, Darryl, 101–02

  Stinson, Bob, 32

  Stone, Sharon, 110–11, 113, 129

  Straight Outta Compton (N.W.A), 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 104–05

  “Suicide Solution” (Osbourne), 156

  “Sultans of Swing” (Dire Straits), 29

  Sunan Abu Dawud (Muhammad), 55

  Super Bowl, 95, 97, 98

  “Sweet Lew” (Pearl Jam), 172–73

  Swift, Taylor, 35–37

  “Take It Easy” (Eagles), 23–24, 26

  Tangents Within a Framework (Page), 159

  Tarantino, Quentin, 87, 149

  Tatum, Jack, 101–02

  Taylor, James, 150

  television series

  drug dealers portrayed in, 47–50

  public opinion on quality of, 46–47

  See also specific series and networks

  terrorist attacks (9/11/2001), 55–56, 161

  Texas Rangers, 195

  Thelema religion, 158

  They Call Me Assassin (Tatum), 102

  They Still Call Me Assassin (Tatum), 102

  Thicke, Alan, 28

  Thomson, Judith Jarvis, 146

  “Thrilla in Manila” (Ali-Frazier fight, 1971), 51, 52

  Time (magazine), 197

  Tone Lōc, 93

  Torre, Joe, 197

  Tosh, Daniel, 83

  To the Limit (Eliot), 25

  Tramell, Catherine (fictional character, Basic Instinct), 111–12

  Travolta, John, 80

  Tripp, Linda, 115, 121–22, 125, 126

  Tuchman, Gary, 55

  Turner, Kathleen, 112

  TV Guide, 46

  Twilight (film), 194

  Twitter, 60, 160, 161, 163

  2 Live Crew, 78

  Tyson, Mike, 60

  Ugly Betty (TV series), 193

  “Under My Thumb” (Rolling Stones), 150

  “Under the Bridge” (Red Hot Chili Peppers), 30

  Under the Gaslight (play), 10

  Untergang, Der (film), 193

  Urban Outfitters, 33

  USA Today, 195

  USFL, 98

  US Weekly, 36

  U2, 33

  Vader, Darth (character, Star Wars), 7

  Van Halen, 28–29

  “veil of ignorance” concept, 4

  Verducci, Tom, 197

  Verhoeven, Paul, 111

  Very Best of the Eagles, The (CD), 26

  VH1, 134

  Vietcong, 54

  Vietnam War, 52, 108, 145

  vigilantism

  Death Wish (film) and, 66–69

  Goetz’s subway attack and, 60, 63–66, 73–75

  Village Voice, 60

  villains and villainy

  Ali-Frazier boxing matches and, 50–54

  Assange and WikiLeaks and, 143–45

  Clinton’s affair and, 114–15, 125–27

  con artists as, 42–43

  D. B. Cooper’s airplane hijacking and, 40–42, 54–55, 56–57

  Death Wish (film) and, 66–69

  drug dealers in television shows and, 47–50

  Goetz’s subway vigilantism and, 61–66

  hip-hop music and, 91–92

  Keith Richards’s drug arrest and, 39–40

  Machiavelli on rulers and power and, 11–14

  Paterno’s behavior during career in college football and, 14–18

  politicians and, 19–21

  Purple Rain’s protagonist and, 44–46

  serial killers and, 116–19

  Snidely Whiplash in Rocky and Bullwinkle and, 11

  storyline of a woman tied to the railroad tracks and, 9–11

  Virgil, 17

  Vitello, Paul, 81–82

  von Braun, Wernher, 187

  von Bülow, Claus, 168

  von Trier, Lars, 98–100

  Wall, The (Pink Floyd), 31

  Wallace, David Foster, 199

  Walsh, Joe, 25

  Walton, Bill, 171

  WarGames (film), 143

  Warner Bros., 26, 29, 44

  Washington Post, 122

  Wayne, Bruce (fictional character, Batman series), 69–70, 73

  “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” (Swift), 37

  Weeds (TV series), 47

  Wells, H. G., 133

  Wenner, Jann, 109

  West, Adam, 61

  West, Jerry, 124

  West, Kanye, 36

  Whiplash, Snidely (cartoon character), 11

  White, Walter, 48, 50

  White Men Can’t Jump (film), 42–43

  Whitewater controversy, 122

  Whitman, Walt, 121

  Wiccan religion, 158

  WikiLeaks, 143–47

  Wilde, Oscar, 157

  Williams, Katt, 83

  Williams, Robin, 152

  Wilson, Woodrow, 131

  Winfrey, Oprah, 128

  Winner, Michael, 66

  Wire, The (film), 48

  “Witchy Woman” (Eagles), 37

  “With God on Our Side” (Dylan), 186–89

  World Trade Center attack (September 11, 2001), 55–56, 161

  World War II, 99, 119, 157, 185

  WWE wrestling matches, 134

  X, Malcolm, 93

  Yankee Years, The (Torre), 197

  Yankovic, “Weird Al,” 78

  Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 34

  Yorke, Thom, 16

  “You Belong with Me” (Swift), 36

  “You Could Be Mine” (Guns N’ Roses), 92

  Y2K problem, 120

  Zucker, David, 167

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