Word: addictions
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...Meanwhile, what's a multichannel-TV addict to do? Junk his cable box and join the switchers? Or steer clear of the stormy satellite business until the skies clear...
...Crane (Greg Kinnear) was an L.A. disc jockey. Then he became the star of the TV series Hogan's Heroes. In due course, abetted by a video geek named John Carpenter (Willem Dafoe), he became a sex addict. This destroyed his career. Reduced to the dinner-theater circuit, he met lots of willing women and took pictures of them in flagrante with the equipment Carpenter supplied. Then he was murdered, almost certainly by Carpenter. Auto Focus tells this story as affectlessly as we just have. It's a conscious aesthetic choice by director Paul Schrader, not an accident of ineptitude...
Veronica Fowler and her husband Giles just dismantled the living room in their 1930s Cape Cod--style home in Ames, tearing down two walls to add volume and connect it to the needs of the present. Says Veronica, a garden writer and renovation addict: "When you move into a house, you're moving into the lifestyle of that era. If it's a 1970s house, you will have to suffer the conversation pit. Our 1930s house was small. People's needs, desires and expectations were completely different than they...
...this film, Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane (embodied here with scary blandness by Greg Kinnear) was a sex addict who enjoyed having his erotic acts recorded on video by a technician (Willem Dafoe) who often joined Crane in four-way frolics. As a cut-rate American satyr, Crane was Hugh Hefner without the mansion or the moves. And Paul Schrader's clinical docu-comedy is as grim as an autopsy after an electrocution...
...Collins' life has been steeped in aggression. He was a battered teenager who saw his mother, a small-time dealer and full-time addict, murdered by drug runners when he was eight. After being sentenced to a maximum security prison in California for armed robbery in 1991, he found Islam. From there he headed to Afghanistan to train with Harakat-ul Jihad, then to Chechnya, where he lost a leg in a firefight with Russian special forces, and finally to Kosovo to help fight the Serbs. He describes with childlike glee his love of weapons and tactics. A daring nighttime...