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...tales of how much his hotel accommodations cost on a recent trip. "Very much expensive," he repeats, as they dutifully nod. Across the room a powerfully built man in his 30s - displaying the latest Tokyo gangster style with his buzz cut and loud, metallic-colored tracksuit - sprawls on a couch, sleeping. A young blond sits by his side staring into space...
...rental car and drive like hell back to Jackson Hole, change my flight and head back to sweet, sweet Jersey. No more skiing. No more hills, no more lactic acid hell. Just hug my wife, play with my kids for a while, take a nap on the couch and forget this ever happened...
TREND More men who used to shun psychotherapy are now spending time on the couch...
...helped him figure out that his mother was trying to kill him, but it hasn't got rid of the panic attacks--and the new girlfriend he met in Dr. Melfi's waiting room isn't doing a lot to help his rocky marriage. Still, those sessions on the couch in The Sopranos may be having an impact outside the show. More tough guys who never would have considered therapy are breaking down and seeing a shrink, and some say Tony is one reason. "Tony's a tough guy. But he is a tough guy who cries, takes Prozac...
...Survivor" is still king. What is it about this show? There's the high-school-flashback factor, getting to watch alliances form and shift and disintegrate according to social winds none of us have ever fully understood. There's the simple lure of schadenfreude, getting to cackle on the couch as 16 Real, Ordinary People are stranded far from civilization and have to scratch, claw and starve their way to 15 runners-up and one winner. (And there's the "bah" factor. "Bah," we say. "Can't these people even catch a fish...