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Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disorder where the sufferer’s lungs produce an excessive amount of mucus. Nowadays CF sufferers only live till their mid-30s. When Bob Flanagan was born in 1952, people with CF rarely lived into their 20s. Bob lived to be 43. This arresting documentary about his life and art seems to claim that extreme masochism helped keep him alive.

Director Kirby Dick followed Flanagan for several years chronicling his stand-up comedy, performance art, installation exhibits and personal life. At an early age, Flanagan began experimenting with masochism, evolving into more and more extreme behavior as he got older. When he met Sheree Rose, he found his soul mate. She became his lover and dominatrix. Dick remarkably makes the couple likable and understandable in the face of some bleeding-edge fetishes.
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Just a peek inside Christopher Nolan’s Inception

Giddy up film fans, it been two week since a non-special edition of Getting Buzzed. DARK KNIGHT’s Christopher Nolan is bringing us a creepy looking sci-fi flick INCEPTION next summer and that tops the buzz list in my book even after two weeks on the net. There also a couple other fall releases that just missed my top 30 anticipated films of the fall list.
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