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AEROBICS, assertiveness training, behavior modification, body language, biofeedback, creative divorce, do-it-yourself psychotherapy, dream analysis, egospeak, est, esp, high-fiber diets, homeotherapy, i ching, isometrics, macrobiotics, mega-vitamins, metatalk, numerology, open marriage, parenting, psychodrama, reality training, psychocybernetics, sense relation, silva mine control, tantric sex, transactional analysis...
...presence of "God Sir" can be had for well under $100, including a gourmet vegetarian diet. Typically the Poona seekers are in their late 20s, or older, searching frantically for spiritual answers. Ma Prem Ida, who dropped out after 15 years as a Las Vegas waitress, then tried est, says, "I want to get out of myself, have fun with myself, do what my feelings tell me." A 35-year-old psychotherapist named Tim who practices in the Midwest found his techniques running dry and is searching for what he calls "radical autonomy." America, he says, is "an emotional desert...
Seattle has almost none of the hassles and almost all of the amenities of many bigger American cities. As Post-Intelligencer Columnist Emmett Watson remarks, "The people of Seattle, like every place else, are into punk rock, tofu, lifespring, frozen yogurt, est and diet beer. People here are using words like parenting, ambience, trendy and psycho- babble." They also, quite often, are using words like symphony, museum and pro football...
...with the screenplay in a recent Sports Illustrated article--but director Michael Ritchie has loaded up the old story of two country boys (and one country girl) who come to the city and make good with New York cocktail party jokes, including a sometimes flat parody of Erhardt's est, and the result is, well not exactly semi-bad, but still disappointing...
...Hunts, and Robbies of today. David Merrick depends on an abrasive charm as the Werner Erhardt figure who is a kind of camp follower cum guru, but in the end he is just abrasive. In fairness to Ritchie, the great part of the movie that involves Merrick and his est-parody probably had to be inserted quickly as the NFL refused to lend much assistance to his movie. Semi-Tough the novel never contained much actual football in the first place, Semi-Tough the movie even less, because only Joe Robbie of the Miami Dolphins would cooperate with the production...