Silver screen fiend learning about life from an addiction to film
"Between 1995 and 1999, Patton Oswalt lived with an unshakable addiction. It wasn't drugs, alcohol or sex: it was film. After moving to L.A., Oswalt became a huge film buff (or as he calls it, a sprocket fiend), absorbing classics, cult hits, and new releases at the New Beverly Cinema. Silver screen...
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2015.
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| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Movie freaks and sprocket fiends : the New Beverly Cinema, May 20, 1995
- My first four Night Cafés : Arles, France, September 1888
- The Largo : Los Angeles, 1996
- No small actors : Down periscope, 1995
- Meat and potatoes : Los Angeles, August 1995
- Overdosing : Los Angeles, October 21-22, 1995
- You can, unfortunately, go home again : Sterling, Virginia, Thanksgiving 1996
- The day the clown didn't cry : the Powerhouse Theatre, January 27, 1997
- Amsterdam : January 7-13, 1998
- The knave of Queens : March 26-27, 1998
- Killer Burger and the myth of the Largo : March 4-20, 1999
- The end of the addiction : Thursday, May 20, 1999, the Vista Theatre
- Whistling in the dark
- The second-to-last Night Café : April 15, 2009.
