In the pilot he cancels a bowling date with his best friend, Wade Nate Torrencee), to go to a club where his latest object of affection is hanging out; in the second episode Wade rents a limousine in a last-ditch attempt to win back his wife, but Stuart commandeers it for a club-hopping misadventure.
The novel takes the form of Webster's final, long letter written from prison to Eduardo Garcia, his Cuban object of affection.
Her -- written and directed by Spike Jonze and starring Joaquin Phoenix as the flesh-and-blood suitor and the voice of Scarlett Johansson as his digital object of affection (and co-starring Amy Adams and Rooney Mara) -- is sweeping up praise for its innovative take on the classic love story, but has its influence been overstated?
The robbery has its own set of consequences: the have-a-go hero whose unbearable smugness is the final straw for his wife; the cab driver for whom a carrier bag of mislaid cash is the means to pursue his own inappropriate object of affection.
He was done with fatherhood now; he needed the other side of the equation, the one in which his children owed him, would care for him, would provide cute infants to be his simple objects of affection.
"Carl had thick, wavy brown hair, down to his shoulders," recalled Jane Bartels, the object of his affection, decades later.
She Cracked contrasted his behaviour with that of the object of his affection: "She'd eat shit, eat garbage, get stoned/ I stay alone, eat health food at home".
The object of his affection — his wife, Regina, describes it as an obsession — is the couple's 1920s colonial style home, a house where Norman Rockwell lived and painted many memorable covers for The Saturday Evening Post.
