Paul Schrader is best known as a chronicler of America's sordid margins, whether writing (Taxi Driver)or directing (American Gigolo), but here he finds the perfect cloak for his obsessions:a bright, almost chirpy, biopic of wholesome 60s TV star-turned- incorrigible pervert Bob Crane.
The event reflects one of Putin's main obsessions: "a healthy way of life," which means no drinking, no drugs, and celebration of sports and exercise.
Baseball is one of those useful, useless obsessions, a beautiful diversion into which we fans pour our free-floating anxieties, dreams and frustrations.
Dr. Ovrut said hardly anyone seemed to understand either of his obsessions: "A million people have asked me over the years: 'Why do you do physics?
Her songs had a few lines of exposition that would suddenly be answered by her whole band — which included harp, cello and violin — with choirlike vocal harmonies, pushing Ms. Mvula toward exultant incantations that gave obsessions a cinematic glow.
Like its opening credits, "Kimmy Schmidt" is a peculiar, propulsive mashup of tabloid obsessions, a sitcom about one of the "Indiana mole women," Kimmy Schmidt, who was kidnapped by the Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne in eighth grade.
