She’s not a monster. She’s just an ordinary person pushed by circumstances to do very bad things.

She’s no Waingro, no Buffalo Bill, and certainly no Michael Corleone. Villainy of that sort requires a man’s touch.

WHY MEN ARE BETTER VILLAINS BY GRAHAM DASELER 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 49

One of my own favorite screen scumbags has long been Waingro, the trailer-trash police informant played by Kevin Gage in Heat (1995). Like Buffalo Bill, Waingro has…