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...much as America’s. All his movies are trapped between the violence of the images and the characters and the intellectual discussion of his chosen theme. His 1996 film “Crash,” for example, about strangers coming together over a car crash fetish is violent and sordid, but also an earnest examination of the place machines hold in our lives...
...even if the customer will never see it. Borg-Warner, a manufacturing conglomerate, makes a five-speed transmission used in Nissan's popular 280Z and 300ZX sports cars. While the driver sees only the stick shift, Nissan insisted that the whole transmission must shine. "We ran into the Japanese fetish for appearance," says Thomas Hague, the firm's Asian area director. "It's an emotional thing with them." After Borg-Warner polished up its act, Nissan was happy...
...words “economic documentary” and “sexy good time” are rarely used to describe the same movie, and despite a brief tribute to one executive’s stripper fetish, Alex Gibney’s “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” continues this trend...
Consider the Feb. 17 episode of CSI. A form complaint letter available at the PTC website describes the episode, and it's icky stuff. The plot is about infantilism, a sexual fetish that involves adults wearing diapers and suckling at women's breasts. But the letter includes a curious argument: "COMPLAINANT urges the Commission to take notice of the high ratings for this episode of CSI ratings [sic]--reportedly viewed in 30.72 million households. Given its relatively early broadcast time [9 p.m. E.T.], it was without question viewed by millions of children...
Personally, I found the film’s preoccupation with the New World-Old World cultural divide more like a Henry James novel with a beverage fetish. Despite winemaking’s age-old European heritage, much of its current jargon is so new, and so clearly American, that it still has no place in the languages of Europe’s great wine countries. The French word for “wine marketing,” for example, is just “wine marketing...