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...they are maimed eaten, or resurrected as zombies. E.G. Marshall's role should garner the Laurence Olivier/Inchon bread winning award; even the Maalox commercials are a better fate than what happens to him here (hint: the cockroaches.) The other principal actors--Hal Holbrook, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, and Adrienne Barbeau--fare little better, and the entire cast seems rather confused and uncomfortable with the material. The one mild surprise is King himself, who in his acting debut plays a doltish farmer in the "Jordy" sketch...
Johnson and Barbeau are working with Western Air Lines flight attendants in the wake of the Mexico City crash last month. It marks the first time that grief counseling has been requested by an airline. Says Western Vice President Larry Lee: "We had a very heavy grief situation.Many had just graduated after seven weeks of training with some of the victims.They become so close in these classes...
Johnson and Barbeau met with relatives and colleagues of the victims. They also gave a quick course in grief counseling to senior Western employees, each of whom was assigned to help the family of one of the victims deal with their grief...
...Barbeau, who counseled relatives and colleagues of the dead after two air disasters that left no survivors-the 1978 San Diego crash of a 727 and the DC-10 crash in Chicago last May-says the shock resulting from these crashes was more widespread than usual I among airline employees. Reason: the outside observer always wards off fears of death by identifying with the survivor; with no survivors, those fears are harder to disperse...
...Diego and Chicago crashes really helped focus attention on the fears of aircraft personnel," says Barbeau. "It's slowly getting to be O.K. now to talk about fear of flying among flight attendants and the general public as well. People who have gone through something like this are not the same afterward...