lady-killer

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His skepticism toward feminist literary theory informed his 1979 literary debut, “Confessions of a Lady-Killer,” which New York Times reviewer Mark Shechner described as an irony-laced “study of feminism from the point of view of Jack the Ripper.”

From Washington Post

George Stade, a Columbia University literary scholar who became an early champion of “popular” fiction within the academy and worked as a critic, editor and novelist, most notably with the grisly satire “Confessions of a Lady-Killer,” died Feb. 26 at a hospital in Silver Spring, Md. He was 85.

From Washington Post

Beneath his nineties-style pompadour, his furrowed brow expressed the skeptical melancholy familiar to anyone who knew him in the role of Dylan McKay—the rich, troubled, but still essentially decent lady-killer—which he famously played between 1990 and 1995, and then, again, from 1998 to 2000, on the Fox teen drama “Beverly Hills, 90210.”

From The New Yorker

The masculine specimen the author had in mind was Ian Fleming’s suave, sophisticated bullet-dodger and lady-killer, “Bond, James Bond.”

From New York Times

His leadership bona fides were equally laughable, having presided over bankrupt casinos and failed real-estate projects, fabricated the persona of a lady-killer, and created a reality TV show about a tin-pot entrepreneur.

From Salon