Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film

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 Los Angeles, Oswalt became a huge film buff (or as he calls it, …

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