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...correcting misimpressions he had developed: "One day, approaching the Holland Tunnel, he realized that he was interpreting the tightness in his chest as a sign he was suffocating," Weishaar writes. He wasn't, of course, and when he "worked that through cognitively," the phobia vanished. Similarly, his stage fright eased "with continued practice and challenging his automatic thoughts...
...sensitive, vulnerable and laying one's self bare before the camera. The resulting meltdowns-from Marilyn Monroe's to Robert Downey Jr.'s-are legendary and have created a booming aftermarket in therapists and therapies designed to help actors maintain peak performance in the face of depression, anxiety, stage fright, creative blocks, narcissistic disorders, substance abuse and all the other ills their profession is heir to. In the 1970s, actors queued up for est seminars. In the '80s and '90s, others signed up for Scientology. The latest vogue in Hollywood is mind-body therapy, which encompasses a variety of techniques...
...York Times review noted the fright make-up is completely gratuitous. ‘Nuff said...
Haneke, an Austrian who now works in France, is a master of elegant film pranks. (He called one of his movies Funny Games.) Hidden is a creepy, complicitous thriller that ratchets up the tension even as it asks us to study the mechanics of film fright. Haneke's camera, so quietly predatory, is the herald of disaster. And we the viewers are its beneficiaries, watching and waiting for something awful to happen. Here it does, first subtly, then spectacularly. The twist is not revealed until the last shot--if you keep your avid eyes open...
...uncommon to fear speaking in public. But with Microsoft readying a revamp of its ubiquitous PowerPoint, Apple leaping ahead with its user-friendly Keynote 2, and new gadgets and software making it easier to shine up your speeches, now's the perfect time to conquer stage fright with some cool new tools...