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	Lloyd C. Douglas
		Magnificent Obsession introduced themes that reappeared in the author's later books - a medical setting, the wealthy background, the conversion of the atheist hero to a practising Christian, due to feelings of guilt, this time after causing a death of a brain surgeon, Wayne Hudson.
		He is a genius who believes that if man harbors any sort of fear, no matter how benign and apparently harmless, it percolates through all his thinking and damages his personality.
		One of the characters says, "whoever loveth a genius is out of luck with his devotion except he beareth all things, endureth all things, suffered long and is kind." DOCTOR HUDSON'S SECRET JOURNAL (1939) was a prequel to the story.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /lcdougla.htm (1019 words)

	Magnificent Obsession - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Magnificent Obsession is a 1929 novel by Lloyd C. Douglas.
		The novel tells the story of Robert Merrick, who is resuscitated by a rescue crew after a boating accident.
		Magnificent Obsession a 1954 film directed by Douglas Sirk.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Magnificent_Obsession (143 words)

	Magnificent Obsession
		In the 90’s the term obsession has taken on rather negative connotations with images of people constantly washing their hands, taking five or six showers a day or becoming obsessed with not stepping on the cracks on a concrete sidewalk, such as Jack Nicholson’s character in "As Good As It Gets".
		I would like to suggest, however, that there is a "magnificent obsession" that we can become preoccupied with and that is not only positive but healthy.
		Some of my obsessions I’m sure have come out of a mid life desire to redeem as much as possible of the 86,400 seconds God has given me everyday in which to live my life.
	www.angelfire.com /hi3/stoked/magnificent.html (1223 words)

	MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION Columbia Journalism Review - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		BOOKS MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION The Power of Passionate Writing THE NEW NEW JOURNALISM: Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft by Robert S. Boynton Vintage Books.
		Jonathan Harr, the author of A Civil Action, spent eight harrowing years plowing through a stack of legal documents as high as a three-story building, and nearly went broke in the process.
		What it takes to belong to this elite company is the ardor to burrow inside a subject, the skill to win confidences, and the stamina to persist through inevitable setbacks - as well as to transform voluminous raw material into graceful, compelling prose.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3613/is_200503/ai_n13602201 (845 words)

	IGN: Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession Review
		With Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession, director Xan Cassavetes not only documents Harvey's rise and fall - which ended with a bizarre murder/suicide - but chronicles a time when cable, then still in its infancy, managed to surpass scores of channels that have since become available with but one single, ambitious network.
		Unlike many of their contemporaries, who where content to present mainstream theatrical releases, Z Channel championed extended and director's cuts long before they were en vogue; they celebrated films that suffered from unnecessarily bad reputations, and presented great ones that went overlooked.
		Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession is presented with an English 2.0 stereo track with optional English subtitles.
	dvd.ign.com /articles/680/680813p1.html (1175 words)

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		In order to qualify as a Magnificent Obsession (M.E.) -- at least according to my definition -- the hobby must strike me as slightly-to-extremely insane while, at the same time, fill me with admiration for the hobbyist's discipline.
		It seems arrogant to qualify my obsession as magnificent, but some have called it "slightly insane," and it is undoubtedly useless.
		They may lack the scale to qualify as truly magnificent, but I think BEAM robotics - making robot critters out of recycled electronics - is worth a mention.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/11092 (3292 words)

	» Blog Archive Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession » solace in cinema : A vast wasteland of movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Through interviews with his friends and co-workers, its revealed programming the channel was a complete obsession for Harvey and the lengths he would go to, to get the films he wanted to show were limitless.
		Stories like that are numerous throughout 'A Magnificent Obsession'; Tarantino talks about how the owner of the video store he worked at would lend him VHS copies of rare Sam Fuller films they had shown on 'Z', or F.X.Feeney, An eventual reviewer for the Channel's magazine recalls seeing 'Chinatown' four times in one week.
		'Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession' is a really interesting documentary, that even though I had no frame of reference for, I enjoyed very much.
	www.solaceincinema.com /2006/03/28/z-channel-a-magnificent-obsession (667 words)

	Magnificent Obsession (1954) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Continuity: In early scenes of Bob Merrick boat racing on the lake, he is warned to be careful because "...it is really kicking up out there!" but we immediately see the lake and it is calm, almost without any waves at all.
		Referenced in "The Facts of Life: Magnificent Obsession (#4.13)" (1983) more
		And after this flick, he was also a star.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0047203 (469 words)

	Magnificent Obsession (1954) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In "Magnificent Obsession" he shows why he was probably the man that was born to direct this film, as well as others of the genre.
		"Magnificent Obsession" proved to be a hit for its stars.
		In a way, it's easy to see why fans were attracted to it, with its many twists and turns and the impossible love between Helen and Dr. Bob Merrick, the playboy who becomes contrite after he causes the accident that makes Helen blind.
	imdb.com /rg/title-lhs/title-next/title/tt0047203 (437 words)

	The magnificent obsession of Jonny Wilkinson
		He was incisive in attack and, as always, tackled magnificently.
		In the meantime he will redefine the meaning of obsession, pursuing excellence as an individual within a team sport.
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	www.rediff.com /sports/2003/nov/21rugby.htm (643 words)

	The Magnificent Obsession 2004
		Well, doubtful any would call The Ukrainian Observer a knight, errant or otherwise, but it has been an obsession of sorts, and some would call our tilting at windmills the strangest of notions.
		On its fourth birthday, if I were to say only one line as a toast, it would simply be: The UO has been different.
		However, if we can make a difference once or twice a year, this magnificent obsession is worthwhile.
	www.ukraine-observer.com /articles/193/311 (944 words)

	LIFE'S MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION
		The idea that an obsession could be called "magnificent" came as a surprise and shock to many people.
		But looking for dictionary definitions we come to realize that an obsession is "an urgent and inescapable preoccupation with an idea or emotion." The word "magnificent," of course, means supreme, sublime, noble, or exalted." Thus a "magnificent obsession" is the urgent and inescapable preoccupation with a supreme idea or exalted emotion.
		But of all these obsessions -- power, wealth, fame, pleasure, authority -- not one can properly be called "magnificent," because not one of them is concerned with ideas and endeavors that are supreme or sublime or noble or exalted.
	www.raptureready.com /resource/fisher/S1C2.html (4847 words)

	Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession - Preview Online
		What I did know was that Z Channel had more interesting movies than almost anyone else (unless you counted the classic Warner Bros gangster movies KTLA ran between three and five am) and, within a year, would be running 24 hours a day.
		Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession, Xan Cassavetes’ IFC-produced documentary about Harvey and his mission to unearth lost masterpieces and restore butchered movies to their full length, proves that I was not alone in my little obsession.
		Jim Jarmusch, it turns out, used to ask friends to tape films from Z Channel - which broadcast under the supposed auspices of ‘Theta, Goddess of Television’ - and mail them to him in New York.
	www.preview-online.com /s2004/feature_articles/obsession (470 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Magnificent Obsession : Main
		This second film version of Lloyd C. Douglas' spiritual novel Magnificent Obsession is in...
		Magnificent Obsession is arguably director Douglas Sirk's masterpiece, even though there are many who find it campy or ridiculous.
		This second film version of Lloyd C. Douglas' spiritual novel Magnificent Obsession is in its own way as successful as the first (filmed in 1935) in glossing over the plot holes and logic gaps in the original novel.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/21708/moviemain.jhtml (156 words)

	Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
		Z Channel: a Magnificent Obsession is a documentary about a hitherto little-regarded corner of the film-consuming universe: a small subscription cable TV service that served a patch of Los Angeles between 1974 and 1989.
		Though it never had more than 90,000 subscribers, Z Channel performed an extraordinary role in film culture - largely, you have to suspect, because its main audience was made up of the most concentrated film-oriented community on the planet.
		This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
	worshiptheglitch.com /2005/08/z-channel-magnificent-obsession.html (183 words)

	Magnificent Obsession Film Review - Time Out Film
		Magnificent Obsession Film Review - Time Out Film
		Assuming the dead man's role, Hudson starts practising the same kind of secretive Christianity, but has to resort to an alias to win the widow herself.
		Sirk turns all this into an extraordinary film about vision: sight, destiny, blindness (literal and figurative), colour and light; the convoluted, rather absurd actions (a magnificent repression?) tellingly counterpointed by the clean compositions and the straight lines and space of modern architecture.
	www.timeout.com /film/72562.html (202 words)

	Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession review - movie review of the Xan Cassavetes film starring Jerry Harvey
		While she never met Jerry Harvey, Z's main programmer and central figure of this documentary, director Xan Cassavetes did get to watch Z when she was little and, most importantly, she certainly understands what great cinema is, thanks to her own genetic heritage.
		Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession focuses on Harvey, the emblematic programmer of the channel who, following the beginning of Z's downfall, killed himself after killing his wife.
		Harvey, a disturbed and psychotic film geek, was invited to work for Z, after sending a string of angry letters complaining about the channel's poor programming.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/zchannel.html (446 words)

	Magnificent Obsession
		In any case, for my review to make sense, you must be aware that Magnificent Obsession is itself completely and utterly free of irony.
		Randolph leaves smiling, the heavenly choir kicks up again, and we hear his line about, "a Magnificent Obsession!," for the third time in the picture.
		That’s what makes the picture so ‘romantic.’) And in spite of all the stuff that the lovers have to go through to end up together, their relationship isn’t the title "Magnificent Obsession." That, as we are constantly reminded, is Merrick’s adoption of Randolph’s and Phillips’ path.
	www.jabootu.com /mo.htm (8738 words)

	Magnificent Obsession Movie Review (1954) from Channel 4 Film
		Magnificent Obsession Movie Review (1954) from Channel 4 Film
		A wealthy gadabout decides to make the world a better place to win the heart of the woman he loves
		There are films that stretch the boundaries of credibility, and then there are movies that revel in ridiculousness - Magnificent Obsession is one such movie.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=105654 (178 words)

	Fort Mason Center - Museo ItaloAmericano: Magnificent Obsession
		What does one call a man who heard voices, created an illustrated tract that he considered a third book of the Bible, and slept on a cot in his mother’s bedroom while she was alive and even after her death (leaving her empty bed untouched)?
		But he was also an artist of phenomenal talent and vision – an "Outsider" artist who spent his lifetime creating elaborate, finely detailed renderings of a perfect world he would never inhabit.
		"A.G. Rizzoli: Architect of Magnificent Visions" is an exhibition of these works at the Museo ItaloAmericano.
	www.fortmason.org /features/2005/04/feature09.shtml (529 words)

	YouTube - MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (1954) trailer
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	One Magnificent Obsession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		That is why I wrote One Magnificent Obsession.
		I want to give you twelve compelling reasons to give your one and only life toward the cause of doubling the "capital-C" Church in the next twenty years by helping your micro-church (Sunday School class or small group) to double every two years or less.
		One Magnificent Obsession is not a book about numbers and statistics.
	www.joshhunt.com /mail57.htm (1578 words)

	Amazon.com: Magnificent Obsession: Books: Lloyd C. Douglas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In Magnificent Obsession, playboy Bobby Merrick becomes a physician after causing the death of renowned brain surgeon Wayne Hudson.
		With the Magnificent Obsession, I had read the book years ago and never forgot it.
		I decided to read MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION because of the enjoyment I found in reading Lloyd C. Douglas's other acclaimed novel, THE ROBE.
	www.amazon.com /Magnificent-Obsession-Lloyd-C-Douglas/dp/0395957745 (1305 words)

	CD Baby: TAREY WOLF: Magnificent Obsession
		Thoughtful lyrics that describe life on the edge, deep grooves armed with honesty, wry humor and a killer hook.
		As a result, each track is a unique journey - ear candy, for the listener.
		Magnificent Obssession has got some of the most arresting twists and turns in it's production and arrangements I've heard all year.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/tareywolf (518 words)

	Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		As led by visionary programmer Jerry Harvey, The Z Channel revived underseen movies and cult classics, providing a first-rate cinema education at a time when there were no video stores.
		Like the recent Henri Langlois: Phantom Of The Cinematheque, Alexandra Cassavetes' documentary Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession tells two stories at once: the story of a cineaste haven, and the story of the complicated man who made it happen.
		But Harvey was also depressive and unstable, and in 1988 he shot and killed his wife and himself.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/42218 (357 words)

	Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession - Rotten Tomatoes
		From 1974 to 1989, Z Channel graced the Los Angeles airwaves as one of the country's first pay-television stations.
		Xan Cassavetes’ new documentary Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession recaptures the thrill of catching a rare film on the channel.
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	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/z_channel (519 words)

	Chicago Public Radio - Magnificent Obsession
		There are many ways to support Chicago Public Radio.
		Magnificent Obsession brings listeners true stories of recovery from alcohol/drug dependency told by those who have lived the experience.
		Each unique story documents the remarkable changes that take place in the life of a recovering addict, capturing the heights and depths of emotion that seem to be a part of every story.
	www.wbez.org /programs/magobsession/magobsession.asp (140 words)

	The Hindu : A magnificent obsession?
		The veteran parliamentarian that he is, the Prime Minister seems to be having a magnificent obsession when it comes to joining issue with the Opposition.
		This obsession was very much evident again today when Mr.
		Vajpayee replied to the debate on the motion of thanks to the President's address in the Lok Sabha.
	www.hindu.com /2003/03/04/stories/2003030405460100.htm (232 words)

	Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession \| MTV MOVIES
		And The Z Channel aggressively championed pictures they believed were overlooked, and programmed deserving Oscar-nominated movies during the Academy's voting period, years before studios began distributing video "screeners" to potential voters.
		The Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession is a documentary that looks at the channel's short but remarkable history as well as Harvey's damaged personal life.
		It includes interviews with Robert Altman, Quentin Tarantino, James Woods, Jim Jarmusch, Alexander Payne and a number of other filmmakers and critics who attest to Z Channel's lasting impact.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/257223/moviemain.jhtml (422 words)

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