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...comedy series, The Larry Sanders Show. GARRY SHANDLING, a former Tonight guest host, plays the host of a Tonight-style talk show. Each episode begins with Larry's opening monologue, which sounds just like Garry's real monologues, and brings on real-world guests like Carol Burnett. The twist is that we get to peek behind the scenes, where all is phoniness and petty bickering. It's show- biz satire of the dryest, most in-jokish sort but undeniably funny. Shandling and a guest try to schmooze as the closing credits roll. "Just pretend like you're talking...
...from schizophrenia must acquire the skills needed to live independently while contending with the disorientation, neurological damage and emotional problems left behind by the disease. To manage all this takes more than a great drug; it demands months, even years, of painstaking therapy. "Clozapine gets their attention," says Sarah Burnett, supervisor of Case Western Reserve's Psychosocial Rehabilitation Clinic, "then counseling starts...
...counselor's first goal is to coax newly awakened patients out of the cocoon of their former life. "They are like children at first," says Burnett. "Everything frightens them." Once their trust is gained, they must learn the most fundamental, practical facts about how to organize their life. In a group session, for instance, participants are asked to make a pie chart of a typical day. How big a slice does sleep get? Work? Television? Many schizophrenics are accustomed to sleeping 16 hours a day. To enforce normal habits, Burnett often uses peer pressure. When new arrivals realize that other...
...patient. "I have no idea what a computer is. It's really embarrassing. Just about everybody with an I.Q. over 70 can do things I can't do." Another problem: parents who have suffered through decades of caretaking have trouble letting go. "That can really slow things down," says Burnett. She and her team conduct therapy sessions with the patients' families to help them adjust...
...well on clozapine that she moved into her own apartment, got a job, found a boyfriend and bought a car. Then she lost it all, lapsing into homelessness and insanity, after she developed the dreaded blood-cell deficiency and had to be taken off the drug. Burnett remembers the woman begging to return to clozapine, insisting she'd "rather be dead" than endure madness again. She was ultimately killed in a street robbery...