'Things obsess me," Jeremy Deller says, "but I don't think of myself as obsessive". At 9.30 on the morning before his show opens in the British pavilion at the Venice Biennale the artist is sitting in the sunshine in a cafe across the water from the domes and towers of San Marco, having a go at explaining himself.
Thoreau comes off as a good writer, an enthusiast about exploring the self and nature and an engaging antimaterialist thinker, but also, undeniably, as a brat, not to mention downright nasty and obsessive at times.
The hit Sundance comedy Dope, about a bullied hip-hop obsessive at a Californian high school, opened in fifth space with $6m, and was the only other new film on the North American top 10 this week.
Jake's mother said his nature had always bordered on the obsessive: At age 5, he would spend hours on end hunched over his paints, making pictures of minute detail.At one point, she said, his parents offered Jake $1,000 to quit gymnastics".I was so sick of the sport," she said".I was so sick of the injuries.I wanted him to be a kid".
"To be blunt," as Emma John puts it in her gloriously funny yet poignant memoir of growing up as a cricket obsessive at this time, "the England team I followed with such ardour were one of the worst in the country's history".
The facile answer: a focus on love: married, obsessive, at first sight.
For the following week after that, I was just sitting there like obsessive at the computer just trying to find out more and more and more".
It's a fairly common tendency to become obsessive at the beginning of a relationship.
The five, seven or 15-course menu arrives beautifully presented on rough-cut slate plates and in ceramic bowls, with attention to detail as obsessive as at Noma.
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He plays a man on an implacable, obsessive stop-at-nothing quest to recover his stolen car, with an unrecognizable Robert Pattinson equally strong as a weaker man who gets pulled along in his wake.
