Word: obsessive
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...relatively unnoticed. No matter. Purple still reigns. Just ask Cam’ron. So don’t blame The-Dream for being in thrall to Prince. Any aspiring R&B singer would do well to study an album like “Dirty Mind,” to obsess over “1999,” to worship “Purple Rain.” However, you can blame The-Dream for not looking beyond Prince—and a handful of other influences—on his lifeless debut, “Love Hate...
...which have been produced.‘SENSE OF VERTIGO’Evans says the writing process is one that she almost doesn’t control.“I’ve found that the subject matter chooses us. Playwrights tend to have things that obsess them whether try acknowledge them to or not,” says Evans. “My plays all deal with the collision of the interior and poetic world with external world of politics. They mix a kind of poetic intensity with gritty real world situations.”For aspiring playwrights...
They use up vacation time, obsess over schedules and plot the shortest walking path between theaters. And for ten days each September, they disappear into the dark for hours at a time, emerging dazed or euphoric, tearful or bored before heading back to do it again. True festival junkies see three, four, even six movies a day, often eschewing the blockbusters-to-be in favor of films that won't make it to DVD, much less mainstream theaters. We asked a few veterans about their tight schedules, the days before advance ticket sales, and the rush they get from...
...almost goes without saying that Dengler's story would attract (and obsess) Werner Herzog, a director drawn to portrayals of men driven to extreme behavior in extreme situations. Herzog's features - Aguirre the Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo - and his conditions - notably the great Grizzly Man- provide ample and thrilling testimony to the uniqueness of his enterprise. He is willing to go places no other filmmaker goes and he simply has no competitors when it comes to strenuous risk-taking. About a decade ago he made a hypnotic documentary about Dengler's exploits, entitled Little Dieter Needs...
...with the footage of a group of rusty thirty-somethings practicing in the woods. It’s as if an Opportunes recording were played over a video of a First-Year Outdoor Program excursion—the two just don’t jive. Most of the guys obsess over their ages, and the onset of their mid-life crises becomes the focus of the movie. Meanwhile, their wives and girlfriends form cliques, mock the men, and joke about swapping husbands. In fact, the characters refuse to discuss anything but sex and old age. The racy scenes spiral...