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Requiem for a Dream

Hubert Selby Jr.

In Coney Island, Brooklyn, Sarah Goldfarb, a lonely widow, wants nothing more than to lose weight and appear on a television game show. She becomes addicted to diet pills in her obsessive quest, while her junkie son, Harry, along with his girlfriend, Marion, and his best friend, Tyrone, have devised...

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Fresh Air

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Fresh Air

The book was referenced when the host mentioned having only vague memories of a scene from the novel.

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I have only vague memories of Jared Leto's gangrenous arm from Requiem for a Dream.

— Episode: Noah Wyle, Star Of 'The Pitt'

Episode: Noah Wyle, Star Of 'The Pitt'

The book was referenced when the host mentioned having only vague memories of a scene from the novel.

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I have only vague memories of Jared Leto's gangrenous arm from Requiem for a Dream.

StarTalk Radio

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StarTalk Radio

Darren Aronofsky mentioned the book 'Requiem for a Dream', which was discussed in the context of addiction and how it compared the addiction to drugs with the addiction to a goal such as weight loss, and the similar neurological processes involved.

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You see what I loved about the book is that it was this, you know, these two stories, one was like a typical drug story of young kids and one was an old lady who was just sort of addicted to a dream a...

— Episode: Science and Psyche in Film, with Darren...

Episode: Science and Psyche in Film, with Darren Aronofsky

Darren Aronofsky mentioned the book 'Requiem for a Dream', which was discussed in the context of addiction and how it compared the addiction to drugs with the addiction to a goal such as weight loss, and the similar neurological processes involved.

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You see what I loved about the book is that it was this, you know, these two stories, one was like a typical drug story of young kids and one was an old lady who was just sort of addicted to a dream and how being addicted to a drug could be the same as being addicted to not eating a chocolate because you want to lose weight and how that kind of goes into the book and how that kind of conversation in your head is the same sort of biochemical conversation that you're, you're grappling with, yeah.

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