Bear Necessities
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The other week your correspondent purchased a copy of the much-acclaimed 2005 Werner Herzog documentary Grizzly Man, the story of Timothy Treadwell, a guy who spent 13 summers in Katmai National Park and Preserve on the Alaskan peninsula studying and filming wild bears before he and his girlfriend were killed by one.
The subject was obviously a seriously disturbed individual (and, to be honest, an insufferably irritating one). Treadwell was a recovered alcoholic, failed actor and wannabe TV star who found meaning in his life through communing with these awesome creatures. Except as the years went by, he became more and ...