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WHAT TO WATCH: What Are Your Favorite Documentaries? Plus "Mr. Organ!"

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Have you ever been friends with a narcissistic blowhard? I have been, when I was much younger, naive and susceptible to their charms. Only later did I realize that these so-called friends leeched the energy from every room they entered, dominated conversations with half-truths and lies to prop themselves up, and ensnared anybody within reach in their largely petty dramas. These friends lived for attention, and if you dared to cross them, the backlash could be fierce, especially if they were in your friends circle, which enabled them to turn everyone against you.  Take this basic personality and multiply it to the nnth degree and you have Michael Organ, the subject of "Mr. Organ," a new and genuinely hair-raising documentary by David Farrier, whom you may be familiar with from his previous documentary, " Tickled ," or his documentary series, " Dark Tourist ." Yet nothing Farrier has done before quite prepared me for "Mr. Organ," which begins innoc