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For Oates' pretensions--his impassioned defense of abused children; his overassiduous note-taking; his obsessions with criminality, mesmerism, and his wife's sister--parrot Dickens' own well-documented preoccupations.
On Columbine, before I forget: I don't, in general, buy as a sufficient explanation for media obsessions that "it's all about ratings and selling papers," for two reasons.
He even recycles his sex obsessions: Sliver and Basic Instinct both devote inordinate amounts of attention to the fact that Sharon Stone is not wearing any underwear.
I will graciously forgive your East Coast obsessions if you will indulge me in the San Francisco media sport du jour--writing your own obituary.
You might as well blame the Beatles for the Monkees or Matt Groening for The Family Guy . But the second accusation is both more interesting and more complicated, especially because the trivialization of politics has long been one of Dowd's obsessions.