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(He began his directing career in the 90s making skiing films called Addicted and Free Radicals).
Of course, any show about plastic surgery called "Addicted to Beauty" ought to be called "Addicted to Looking Like Joan Rivers" because nobody looks good; everybody merely appears as desperate as Gary sounds.
"If you've decided to quit, you will," he wrote in "How to Quit Smoking in 50 Years or Less," which was included in the book called "Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast," published last fall in Canada by Greystone Books.
The second entry, a "commercial, yet heavy" album called Addicted, was released in November 2009.
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