Sian

TiVo makes obsessive compulsive behaviour so much easier.  It really does.  I would never have had the patience, or for that matter, the interest, to track any actor for long, if I had to do it the old fashioned way, by cross referencing TV guide with his filmography, and then watching the movies when they come on, and I certainly would never spend the kind of money that's involved in building up the all-Jean Marais video library.  But, TiVo allows me to program a computer to obsess for me.  I program the computer to look up said actor or actors.  And they are almost all actors--only part of whom I love for their minds-and then it just records, and I can obsess at my leisure.  The truth is that I pay absolutely no attention, as a general rule.  Most of the people I've entered in the thing are people who pop into my head while I'm watching TV.  As in "Oh, yeah... him.  What else is he in?"  And when I find out, I usually realize that I've been watching said person for most of my life.  As in
Really?  He was in that?  Are you sure?  So I watch whatever it is, and sure enough, there's such and so, up to his shoulder in a cow, pretending to be a veterinarian. 

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