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WITH HER NEW NOVEL, An Indecent Obsession, Colleen McCullough appears to have forsworn the model for guaranteed success she patented four years ago. With The Thorn Birds she proved she knows how to tell a good tale; as soon as her sweeping saga of love and tragedy on the Australian...
An Indecent Obsession is a novel of modest proportions. Most of the action takes place on Ward X--for psychologically disturbed veterans of tropical warfare--in an Australian army hospital somewhere in the islands of New Guinea. Where The Thorn Birds spanned three generations, life with the inhabitants of Ward...
I first saw Jodie in the movie Taxi Driver, which was the summer of 1976. I saw her over and over and over again over the next five years. I saw all of her movies and most of her TV appearances. My devotion for Jodie became an obsession in the...
The business of this intricately designed yet simply stated movie is to turn obsession into irony. This is always a useful enterprise. In life, it is the great antidote to insomnia; in movies, it is the alternative to melodrama and an excess of gunshots in the final reel.
François, however, makes all sorts of connections, most of them erroneous. When he spots the aviator leaving her apartment early one morning, he mistakenly assumes that it is after a night of revels and decides to follow him. Sure enough, his quarry picks up another woman, and Fran...