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...Fandom?the obsessional identification with a sports team?is universal. The greatest book ever on the psychology of being a fan, Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch, was written about a London soccer team but easily translated into a film about the Boston Red Sox. Particularly in the U.S., it seems possible to be a fan of a team that's based far from where you have ever lived, but I suspect the origins of my obsession are more common. I didn't have much choice in the matter. Both my parents were born in tiny row houses a stone...
...both about the lies men and women tell each other and both running in London, come with his signature caveats: trust no one, and there are no happy endings. "A good relationship equals a sh__ty story," LaBute says. "Drama's fundamental building block is conflict. You have to pitch people at one another. So my job is to look for ways to ruin a perfectly good day for people." This cheerful observation issues from a bear of a man with tortoiseshell glasses and a mass of curly hair. His voice is soft, but LaBute has been honing his hard...
Hornby is not unacquainted with misfortune. His parents split when he was 11, and he's divorced himself. Like Maureen, he has a disabled child; his son Danny is autistic. And although at 48 he's on a serious roll-the movie Fever Pitch is based on a memoir of his, and Johnny Depp just bought the rights to A Long Way Down-like JJ, Hornby knows the pain of a stalled career. "A lot of that is about remembering how frustrated and hopeless I felt when I was 30 and didn't think I'd ever be able...
Boldly designed -- the front, back and spine are without identifying text -- Stevens uses a painstaking cross-hatched style to bring out shades and textures from the black and white palette. Its detailed, photo-based images and its pitch-perfect, "overheard" dialogue, give "Guilty" the sense of a verite documentary. Even minor characters seem alive, like Mark's acid-tongued work mate who asks, "If she's your 'friend,' when was the last time you hung out with her since you broke up?" Fans of Richard Linklater will immediately pick up on the similarities between "Guilty" and the director's smartly...
...Fandom - the obsessional identification with a sports team - is universal. The greatest book ever on the psychology of being a fan - Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch - written about a London soccer team and happily translated into a film about the Boston Red Sox. Particularly in the U.S. it seems possible to be a fan of a team that's based miles from where you have ever lived, but I suspect my fandom's origins are more common. I didn't have much choice in the matter. Both my parents were born in tiny row-houses a stone's throw from...