Everyone who ever worked with him testifies that he was a fiend for preparation, for knowing exactly what he was going to shoot, and for how long it would take, and how much it would cost.
He was a fiend for tobacco.
Though Pelaccio is a big greenmarket shopper and scours the outer boroughs for his ingredients, mainly he's a fiend for pig.
He is a fiend for tectonic shifts in human behavior, sweeping theories that explain the world in several-hundred-year chunks, Ages of.
Cramer, in his early 60s, has said that he is "a fiend about remodeling". A founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and a member of the board of trustees of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Cramer is also a collector of post-1960 artrican art, which he keeps in several locations, including a 12,000-square-foot gallery he built adjacent to his 110-acre Santa Ynez Valley ranch.
But he is still a fiend for releases from the '60s label Arctic Records, especially the Philadelphia soul singer Barbara Mason.
He's also a fiend for smokiness, achieved with abandon and efficiency through the addition of a bacon purée — liquid pork belly!
It was pneumonia, but Irving had had a weak heart for years and he worked like a fiend to make his studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the best and to guard his position there.
Some nights he would drink like a fiend.
"I ate a lot and worked out like a fiend," he revealed to The Gossip Table at the "Man of Steel" premiere.
