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Sometimes North would work 24 hours at a time, and it seemed to affect his judgment. "When Ollie didn't sleep at night, he'd come up with even crazier ideas," says a colleague. "During the TWA hijacking in 1985, he called me in the middle of the night with some absolutely foolish idea. I told him, 'What you suggested is the most ridiculous idea I ever heard. Go home and get some sleep...
Which raises the question whether Beyond Therapy is just a not always lighthearted attack on the modern self indulgences of uncertain sexuality, crazier-than-thou psychoanalysts and Perrier water. Even if they are old hat, the problems of loneliness and confusion with which the play deals are real to most and too realistically explored to fit in with the farce of this...
...lonely and exacting business. Paul Theroux (The Mosquito Coast, The Great Railway Bazaar) is succinct: "Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves." Robert Stone (Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise) is windy and funny: "I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner. So, I thought, I'm really feeling crazy today, I think I'll go see a shrink ... He was everything that a psychiatrist should be: ... Jewish ... very together, very humane. I went to him, and I talked to him, and he said, 'What you need is religion...
Which is exactly what she does. Mother Erma, who lives with her husband in nearby Sun City, admits that she "never had a sense of humor growing up. But as I get older, I get crazier. Me and Erma are both sort of silly together. The humor helped us to get closer. We began to see life as it is and not take it so seriously...
...months in Terminal Island federal prison for contempt of court; near Los Angeles. Just after he was sentenced to a total of nine months in jail for disrupting two earlier federal court hearings, Flynt began shouting obscenities at Federal Judge Manuel Real and declaring, "I'm crazier than hell! I want a competency hearing." When he yelled, "Give me more!" Judge Real obligingly tacked on six additional months...