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	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Psycho IV: Who Owns Norman Bates?
		Bates we see in flashbacks (Olivia Hussey) is also split, sometimes loving and sensual, at other times puritanical, capricious, and cruel, the spiritual ugliness of her abusive side to be reflected eventually (Dorian Gray-like) by her mummified corpse.
		Bates pretends to listen to the preacher’s eulogy while furtively tickling the five-year-old son sitting beside her (the height of eroticism to a small child).
		Norman Bates is one of the movies’ great characters, a 20th-century answer to Hamlet and Oedipus, an icon as recognizable within popular culture as Tarzan or Sherlock Holmes.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /54/psychoiv.htm (2293 words)

	Norman Bates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Norman Bates is a fictional character created by writer Robert Bloch as the central character in his novel Psycho.
		Bates suffered severe emotional (and, it is suggested, sexual) abuse as a child at the hands of his mother, Norma Bates, who preached to him that women and sex were evil.
		Bates developed multiple personality disorder, assuming his mother's personality, repressing her death as a way to escape the guilt of murdering her.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norman_Bates (891 words)

	The Norman Heuristic
		Norman Bates is like a demarcating fault line between the 1950s and the 1960s, between modernity and postmodernity, between fear of the Other and suspicion of the Self.
		Joseph Stefano’s screenplay describes Norman Bates as “somewhere in his late twenties, thin and tall, soft-spoken and hesitant … [with] something sadly touching in his manner.” Norman’s endearment to audiences begins with his first appearance, where he, as a so far unknown character, assists Marion and offers her shelter from the rain.
		Norman Bates, a movie character, and Jonathan Norman, who, according to Markowich, had an “obsession with Hollywood” and who saw a comparison to his own imagined parents in the rubber dinosaurs of The Lost World, are Oedipal celluloid psychos.
	www.outrate.net /featuresnorman4.html (1832 words)

	The PSYCHO Sequels: article by James Futch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Before Leatherface and Freddy Krueger, there was Norman Bates, the shy motel proprietor with a skeleton in his closet and one down in the fruit cellar.
		As Norman Bates, Anthony Perkins brought a sympathetic edge to the character, played him like the guy next door, and it was hard not to root for him.
		Indeed, Anthony Perkins's characterization of Norman Bates was the key to the success of the first film and consequently the driving force of the three sequels that followed.
	www.feoamante.com /Movies/Psycho/psycho_art.html (980 words)

	FrightSearch.Com: Horror Bio: Norman Bates (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Norman loved his mother despite the abuse she caused him.
		Norman would continue to run the motel by himself.
		From his insanity grew a split personality in which he would dress up in her clothes to try and act like his mother going so far to put on a wig to complete the outfit.
	www.angelfire.com /mo2/frightsearch/batesbio.html (174 words)

	Two Monsters in Search of a Concept
		Bates is, for Carroll, "a schizophrenic, a type of being that science countenances." Thus he is not a monster "technically speaking." Yet Bates "resembles the impure beings at the core of the concept of art-horror.
		In Norman's case, this is a function of psychology rather than biology."[7] It is indisputable that Norman Bates is possible within the laws of nature.
		Ironically, Carroll who wants to avoid the conclusion that Norman Bates is a monster actually invites it, though for the wrong reasons; and Freeland who believes Mark Lewis to be a monster probably cannot make good her claim in light of the preceding objections.
	www.contempaesthetics.org /newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=201 (3470 words)

	Jeffrey Niesel - The Horror of Everyday Life: Taxidermy, Aesthetics, and Consumption in Horror Films - JCJPC - Volume ...
		Female bisexuality "reminds man of his own bisexuality (and thus his resemblance to Norman Bates)" and is "a bisexuality that threatens to subvert his 'proper' identity, which depends upon his ability to distance woman and make her his proper-ty" (p.
		According to Norman's mother (and Western culture), women are cheap and bring out the "cheapness" in men as they tempt men to invest in trivial things and distract them from their austere, rational understanding of the world.
		Norman describes his mother as being "as harmless as one of those stuffed birds." When he has finished stabbing Marion in the shower, she slumps out of the shower and we see one of her unblinking eyes which makes her look like a bird.
	www.albany.edu /scj/jcjpc/vol2is4/horror.html (7260 words)

	Horror Asylum: Norman Bates
		Norman Bates still lives in the same old house where he grew up, close to Fairvale.
		Oh well, if Norman is tired of his old bed, he can always go inside one of the 12 usually unoccupied cabins in his motel.
		Norman Bates’s case is a complex one and demands a lot of studies.
	www.horror-asylum.com /psycho/norman/norman.asp (473 words)

	THE MANIAC FILES: NORMAN BATES (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An arguable inconsistency with the Norman Bates figure is that Psycho was a fl and white film, yet the figure was made in full color.
		Although the poster reads "Psycho" across the top and features the caption "Norman Bates is coming home", the picture and captioning depicted on the poster are actually an altered version of the movie poster for Psycho 2.
		Norman Bates had never left home at that point in the Psycho movie series, nor did the first Psycho film have anything to do with Norman returning from somewhere else.
	www.themaniacfiles.com /norman.html (236 words)

	Norm Bates - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Norman Bates, often credited as the chummier Norm Bates, was one of four musically talented brothers from an Idaho family, but the only one whose name developed into a liability sometime after the release of the Alfred Hitchcock film classic Psycho.
		Their mother, Emily Bates, was a professional pianist and organist who began music lessons for the boys before they were able to chew their own food.
		Norman Bates stayed on the Desmond line until 1958, at that point settling in San Francisco, where he began leading his own group at venues such as Fack's.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,401838,00.html (666 words)

	Psycho - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bates' room, which, in contrast to the shambolic state of the rest of the house, is in pristine order, as if it hasn't been altered in years.
		In Norman's room, she discovers several tomes on arcane and subjects: P.D. Ouspensky's A New Model of the Universe and The Extension of Consciousness, Margaret Alice Murray's The Witch-Cult in Western Europe and Dimension and Being; and translations of Joris-Karl Huysmans's Là Bas and the Marquis de Sade's Juliette.
		Bates then dug up and mummified Mother, and began to pretend he was her, to bring her back to life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psycho (1884 words)

	"Meddling Parents & Norman Bates"
		While my Norman is not a cow, she is like Billy's calf an orphan trapped in a system that does not so much care for her needs, but more so calculates her worth by placement in a financial system.
		For my Norman is much like Norman Bates, haunted by a disassociated mother, uncanny in her personality shifts, both tender and endearing like Norman's desire for grilled cheese sandwiches and shrift of violence.
		Norman was prone to walk the halls with me instead of being in her assigned classroom, she would reach up and grab my hand and skip through the halls.
	www.mrkay.org /mrk/progframe.html (1585 words)

	Psycho (1960)
		Bates" - "Norman took a wife?" An over-anxious Lila believes "there's something wrong out there" because Arbogast has inexplicably disappeared after reporting he was "dissatisfied and he was going back there." The common-sense country sheriff is also suspicious, but questions the integrity of the detective.
		I think he got himself a hot lead as to where your sister was going, probably from Norman Bates, and called you to keep you still while he took off after her and the money.
		Bates poisoned this guy she was involved with when she found out he was married.
	www.filmsite.org /psyc4.html (3759 words)

	The Terror Trap: PSYCHO
		Norman, in a fit of jealous rage, killed his mother and her lover years before.
		Norman assumed also the "identity" of his mother, her voice, her actions, her strict ascetic beliefs.
		The figure that attacks Marion Crane in the famous shower scene is not Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates.
	www.terrortrap.com /topten/psycho/index.shtml (1053 words)

	Hollywood Gothique: Actor Interview: Psycho Star Anthony Perkins
		Norman is memorable because he appears, at first, to be shy and sympathetic – a lonely boy-man under his mother’s thumb.
		Of reprising Norman Bates in three sequels, Perkins was upbeat, stating that the character was interesting enough to warrant revisiting: “I don’t want to use the quote again, but it’s never failed me, so I will: it is the Hamlet of horror roles, and you can never quite get enough of playing Norman Bates.
		Norman’s case is a tragic one, and the pictures are tragedies.
	hollywoodgothique.com /perkins.html (1132 words)

	Psycho (1960)
		Anthony Perkins filled the shoes of Norman Bates perfectly.
		Hitchcock had her in mind for the role after she had to quit working on his last film "Vertigo".
		She was probably the key role here, since she was the one who discovered Norman's terrifying secret.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0054215 (593 words)

	Psycho
		Marion has a pleasant dinner with Norman, for whom she feels sorry because of the way his mother has him under her thumb.
		True, Norman himself wasn’t a homosexual in the traditional sense, but an audience seeing the film for the first time in 1960 wasn’t going to know the difference between a transvestite and a homosexual.
		Once we are left with only Norman (and his terrible mother), the audience has no choice but to identify with him.
	www.tranquility.net /~benedict/psycho.html (2104 words)

	Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (Site not responding. Last check: )
		There she meets a rather shy young man (Norman) who is controlled by a domineering mother.
		Bates isn't going to let anyone get in the way of her and Norman's life and she will stop at nothing to keep their little secret....secret.
		Norman Bates character was based on 50's serial killer, Ed Gein.
	www.houseofhorrors.com /psycho.htm (1466 words)

	The PSYCHO Sequels: article by James Futch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Naturally, the wayward nun ends up at the motel and her scenes with Norman are among the most touching in the film.
		Norman juggles his budding romance with his duties as motel manager, ice machine repairman, and mama's little helper.
		As the legendary Norman Bates, Perkins actually surpasses his first performance back in 1960, taking advantage of the fact that this third incarnation of Norman is more complex than ever.
	www.feoamante.com /Movies/Psycho/psycho_art5.html (2251 words)

	Psycho
		Norman Bates was just supposed to be another quirky character she meets along the way, just like the car salesman and the policeman.
		Norman Bates, the prototypical crazy: killer of women, stuffer of "birds," (a British joke most Americans don't catch), and lover of mothers.
		In this one Norman, apparently cured and now married, calls up a radio talk show about "men who kill their mothers" (wow, what luck!) and spills the beans about his life with his mother.
	www.greenmanreview.com /film/film_psycho.html (1584 words)

	Psycho Movies I-IV \| Norman Bates \| Movie Forum
		Norman, to me, has always been about an eternal crisis of identity between the teenage Norman, Mother and the adult Norman who looks after Mother.
		Norman Bates is a nice guy, except he kills people.
		In this movie, Norman is a different person than he has been in the other films - he's married to his psychologist, lives in a house that isn't anywhere near an old motel and is, to all intents and purposes, sane.
	www.movieforum.com /movies/titles/psycho/normanbates.shtml (539 words)

	The Virtual Wall® - Norman Bates, PVT, Army, Louisville KY, 10Jan68 34E013
		Norman W."Spanky" Bates, you had the brightest blue eyes that had that certain twinkle of mischief.
		Private Norman W. Bates and Corporal Gordon L. Goins were part of a Foward Observer team with the 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry.
		On 10 January 1968, 3/60 was heavily engaged in the border areas of Dinh Tuong and Go Cong Provinces southeast of Saigon.
	www.virtualwall.org /db/BatesNW01a.htm (150 words)

	Amazon.com: Psycho (Collector's Edition): DVD: Frank Albertson,John Anderson,Martin Balsam,George Eldredge,Sam ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Anthony Perkins is unforgettable as Norman Bates, the mama's boy proprietor of the Bates Motel; and so is Janet Leigh as Marion Crane, who makes an impulsive decision and becomes a fugitive from the law, hiding out at Norman's roadside inn for one fateful night.
		Bates appears to be very much alive according to Lila, John McIntire is memorable as the gruff but essentially tender-hearted sheriff.
		Norman is a meek and mild mannered man who wouldn't harm anyone; it is his mother one needs to beware.
	www.amazon.com /Psycho-Collectors-Frank-Albertson/dp/0783225849 (2453 words)

	CBC - Ontario Votes 2003 - Parties - Dalton McGuinty
		Indeed, he did better than survive: despite a disastrous campaign in 1999 (in which Howard Hampton publicly made the Norman Bates comparison), the Liberals drew more of the popular vote than either the Tories or New Democrats and improved their standing in the legislature at the expense of both those parties.
		During the campaign, McGuinty refers to Tory premier Mike Harris as a "thug" and NDP leader Howard Hampton compares the Liberal leader to fictional killer Norman Bates.
		Despite a disastrous performance in a TV debate, McGuinty is generally credited with improving the Liberals' share of popular vote (to 40 per cent) and seats in Legislature (up five to 35).
	www.cbc.ca /ontariovotes2003/parties/mcguinty_052003.html (568 words)

	purevolume™ \| The Norman Bates (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Norman Bates are from Portugal...and play some whatever-core style.
		The Norman Bates hasn't posted a blog yet.
		The Norman Bates hasn't posted any shows yet.
	www.purevolume.com /thenormanbates (73 words)

	Norman Bates vs. Hannibal Lecter - :: LEAST I COULD DO FORUM::
		Bates was psychotic sure but Lecter was a hell of a lot more twisted.
		What Norman Bates had in sheer psychotic eagerness, Hannibal Lecter overmatches in cunning, ferocity and wit.
		Lector is more intrigueing and just generally more evil than bates in a sense.
	www.leasticoulddo.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=14418 (877 words)

	Arrow In The Head's movie review of Psycho 2: Anthony Perkins/Norman Bates, Meg Tilly/Mary, Vera Miles/Lila Loomis
		Holland expanded on the Bates character masterfully while nodding the original at just the right level (Having Lila Loomis back was genius).
		Perkins slightly shifted his Norman into a more “sympathetic” direction, running further with the sense of pathos that he displayed in the original.
		A Norman we fall in love with, one we root for, while at the same time, one we fear due to his mental instability.
	www.joblo.com /arrow/reviews.php?id=649 (1124 words)

	ESPN.com Soccernet Column by Matthew Norman: Bates still a martyr to himself
		Turning the other cheek has not generally been the Batesian way, while were Ken to come upon someone lying injured on the road, it is less easy to imagine him helping the wounded wayfarer to an inn than shouting at him for blocking the traffic.
		Rather than putrefying on a large piece of wood, Kenneth is now sunning himself on a boat in the Caribbean with his bafflingly sweet and perplexingly charming girlfriend Suzannah.
		For all his faults, Ken Bates does adore Chelsea and it is his restoration of the club that will serve as a gleaming footballing epitaph long after his Wembley failure is forgotten.
	www.soccernet.com /columns/2001/0212/20010212featnorman.html (858 words)

	www.myspace.com/normanbates2
		Bates Motel: $20.95 for a single, $25.95 for a double.
		we love u norman bates...we shall pass by and visit.
		Norman, thanks for adding our song on your page, does mother like it too?
	www.myspace.com /normanbates2 (708 words)

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