Word: gallin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kabbalah's original context. Another thing entirely is the empire of Kabbalah Learning Center leader Rabbi Philip Berg, which claims to serve 10,000 students through programs in eight countries. Berg offers a profitable self-help program featuring a regimen of personal "corrections"; devotees like Hollywood producer Sandy Gallin admit its basics are similar to those offered by Deepak Chopra or Marianne Williamson. Yet the center seems simultaneously embedded in a religiosity that verges on the magical. Students learn that just running their eyes over the Zohar's original Aramaic can ensure good luck, and they chat blithely about which...
Carey intends to use her new independence to move her career beyond music, as Whitney Houston and Brandy have done. She has hired Hollywood manager Sandy Gallin to help her break into film and television and has begun taking acting classes...
...David Geffen, Shirley MacLaine, Bette Midler, painter David Hockney and 20th Century Fox head Barry Diller. Most of those celebrities are not devotees of Williamson's think-positive course lectures, but a few are, and the glamour has rubbed off. "There's so much to worry about," says Sandy Gallin, Hollywood manager of top stars, who attended Williamson's lectures and then invited her to bless his star-studded birthday party for Geffen. "Put together the ecological breakdown, disease and the recession: we gotta pray to get out of this one." Actor Tony Perkins credits the course with quieting...