Word: fiending
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...forced to quit the shoot. (Mick Jagger, another member of the cast, also had to leave.) Herzog wound up with Klaus Kinski, an actor so extreme and unruly, he was his own volcano. They made five films together; Herzog's memoir movie about Kinski is called My Best Fiend...
...Keating (below) and Howard, the dominant politicians of their generation, are the joint fathers of today's affluence-and partners in the disruptive reforms that have transformed Australia over the past two decades. Some commentators in these matters rely on spleen, others on lofty remoteness. Megalogenis is a data fiend and a diviner of patterns and types. Few know their way around a statistical time series like he does; no one can match his ingenuity in figuring out what to do with it. When Megalogenis describes the rise of the McMansion, for instance, you get acute social observation, street-cred...
...Father’s Eyes”—Eric Clapton. Clapton is sick at guitar, but this song is a little emo. 3) “Say Goodbye”—Dave Matthews Band. This is just Dave being his drunken, pot-smoking, sex-fiend self. 4) “Jigga What”—Jay-Z. No seriously… Jigga what? 5) “Am I Missing”—Dashboard Confessional. Some girl really messed with this dude’s head. Slightly bitter...
...ideal, and his pursuit often drives himself toward madness and those around him near despair. That is the grand theme that Herzog has examined, and embodied, for more than three decades, in fiction films like Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo, and in such documentaries as My Best Fiend (about his frequent leading man Klaus Kinski) and La Soufri?re (about his own journey toward an active Guadaloupe volcano from which all others were fleeing). Recently he found two other suitable subjects, made two extraordinary films. One is Timothy Treadwell, the very engaging, and borderline bonkers, ?star? of Grizzly...
...Despite bein’ a busy [redacted]-player fiend, she’s really into stuff going on around campus,” the punch book entry about one junior reads...