This story has just made my year! And yes, I’m easily amused. While watching American Pyshco, all those years ago, I just knew that Patrick Bateman's "skin-crawling" smirk and crazy eyes seemed strangely familiar. That would be because Christian Bale (who I have a new respect for) used Tommy Cruise as his inspiration for the sexiest serial killer in North America. I know, it’s hysterical!

That's how it happened according to American Psycho director, Mary Harron who recently spoke to BlackBook Magazine when talking about how she developed the character of Patrick Bateman with Christian Bale, "It was definitely a process. We talked a lot, but he was in L.A. and I was in New York. We didn’t actually meet in person a lot, just talked on the phone. We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave. And then one day he called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy." Cue Tommy screaming to Christian, "You and me are f#@king done professionally!"

HAHAHAHA! Doesn't it make your soul sing to think that a crazed maniacal smiling nutter like Tommy was the inspiration for a crazed maniacal lunatic like Patrick Bateman?!