{"id":1131,"date":"2002-11-26T10:20:22","date_gmt":"2002-11-26T17:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8stars.org\/aa\/2002\/11\/26\/auto-focus\/"},"modified":"2002-11-26T10:20:22","modified_gmt":"2002-11-26T17:20:22","slug":"auto-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2002\/11\/26\/auto-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0298744\">Auto Focus<\/a> last night. A good movie, but very emphatically <i>not<\/i> a bring-the-whole-family movie: I mentioned to Gwen midway through &#8220;we&#8217;ll need to bathe as soon as this is over.<\/p>\n<p>The bizarre story it tells, of <i>Hogan&#8217;s Heroes<\/i> star Bob Crane&#8217;s descent into an obsession with random sex and (ahem) home movies, and a relationship with a friend, John Carpenter, that can only be described in the psychobabble of today as &#8220;co-dependent,&#8221; is disturbing and absorbing. 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