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...shrink. His weekly half-hour talk show, Tom Cottle: Up Close, is syndicated on 50 stations around the country, usually in the daytime hours when the schedule is awash in soap operas. Typical guests include such stars as Liv Ullmann, Jack Lemmon, Rod Steiger, Sid Caesar, Phyllis Diller and Milton Berle. But a Merv Griffin he is not; no idle chitchat for Cottle, who oozes edge-of-the-chair empathy as he delves into his guests' hurts, histories, loves and divorces. Their upholstered chair might as well be a couch...
...naughty word. For example, he inquired of an effervescent Debbie Reynolds: "Let me ask you a naive question. Why did you send your husband Eddie Fisher over to console Elizabeth Taylor?" He also has an annoying habit of asking such unanswerable questions as "Who are you?" When Milton Berle confessed to once wanting to kill himself, Cottle replied: "I know what it means, but what does it mean...
...dwelling on his guests' everyday suffering, instead of their ability to sublimate it into performance, Cottle sometimes misses what makes them special. Still, there are times when they surmount his failures. Milton Berle was a study in self-pity while describing the anguish of fathering an illegitimate son, but displayed his comic mastery when he narrated a story of his attempted suicide. Perched at the window, Berle was about to leap. He was discovered by his secretary, who begged him not to jump and said, "Let's order some turkey." Berle looked away, inconsolable, then slowly turned...
...hockey, it's 21-year-old Wayne Gretzky, who is re-writing the NHL scoring record book for the Edmonton Oilers. In pro football, the Scattle Scahawks have then fingers crossed. They may just have uncovered a star of that calibre in Dave Krieg, the kid from tiny Milton College...
...equally savage blast comes from Michael Evans, chief economist for the Wall Street investment firm of McMahan, Brafman, Morgan & Co. Evans, a fallen-away supply-sider, blames high unemployment on the monetarist theories of 1976 Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman, who holds that slow and steady money growth is the key to economic health. Evans charges that some overzealous Friedman followers believed that the money supply could be squeezed without harming the economy. Says he: "Those people are now proved to be nuts, and they're gone forever. That aspect of monetarism belongs on the trash heap of economics...