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...mythic figures forever identified with the American landscape are the itinerant evangelist and the salesman on the road. Right now, John Bradshaw, 58, is both. It is a Sunday afternoon, and for the second day he stands before an enthralled crowd at Manhattan's main convention center. All of us, he tells them, had traumatic childhoods and from them spring the unresolved anxieties of adulthood. He plays the theme in masterly fashion: the faithful are spellbound...
...Bradshaw is the biggest draw and most revered name on America's insatiable pop-psychology circuit. For millions of people who are recovering from every imaginable -- and sometimes unimaginable -- addiction, he is the guru of the moment, the supersalesman of self-help. His name is invoked in meetings of 12- step groups that range from Molesters Anonymous to Overachievers Anonymous. His three books -- including the 1990 Homecoming -- have sold 2.5 million copies since 1988, and audiotape versions consistently top best-selling advice-cassette lists. A new book, tentatively titled Creating Love, is due in the fall of 1992. This year...
...Terry Bradshaw didn't seem to think so. In the CBS Super Bowl pre-game show, the former two-time Super Bowl MVP for the Steelers argued: "Would the Steelers beat the 49ers? What do you want me to say? Of course they would...
...Shirley Bradshaw, nee Valentine, could be a bit of a bore, and a one-woman play about her could degenerate into a dutiful journey through familiar terrain in the regions of feminist anger and mid-life crisis. But the beguiling comedy by Willy Russell (Educating Rita) that opened on Broadway last week has three invaluable things going for it: an unflagging sense of humor; an authenticity of language and logic that keeps the central character's conversation from ever turning into stand-up comedy or sermonette; and, foremost, a hugely likable performance by Pauline Collins (Upstairs, Downstairs...
...more win will put Joe Montana nearly on a par with Terry Bradshaw as the definitive Super Bowl championship quarterbacks...