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...from baseball on many occasions in the early 90s for cocaine use and was once found carrying a gun onto an airplane. Howe though, decides not to come out of retirement. To his disappointment, GM John Hart also discovers that one-time Tampa Bay Devil Rays super-prospect Toe Nash will not be available for this season, as he awaits his trial for theft and the rape of a 15-year-old girl in Louisiana—too bad for the Rangers...
...Denzel Washington (Training Day), Will Smith (Ali) and Halle Berry (Monster's Ball) are accused of playing the race card--whispering that if an actor of color doesn't win, it proves that Hollywood is antiblack. Some people competing against A Beautiful Mind--the biopic of schizophrenic mathematician John Nash, with the burly, brawly Crowe as its star--are drawing attention to incidents in the film's source book of anti-Semitic delusions and intense emotional relationships with other men, neither of which appeared in the movie; they're playing the Jewish card and the gay card. (Hollywood deals from...
Howard and producer Brian Grazer acquired the rights to Sylvia Nasar's unauthorized biography of John Forbes Nash and his wife Alicia. But they also had to pay Nash for his "life" rights. Nash negotiated a deal containing a "can't include without consent" clause and insisted he not be depicted as a homosexual because it wouldn't be true. He made no demands about his episode of anti-Jewish delusions described in the book or his relationship with another woman, with whom he fathered a son. Howard just didn't care to focus on those aspects, which he thought...
...Woolf on a psychiatric “couch.” The link between madness and genius has recently become a topic of national attention, especially as this year’s Oscar race focuses on A Beautiful Mind, the story of the schizophrenic, Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash...
...fascination with the connection between mental illness and genius, whether mathematic or artistic, seems to focus on the idea that geniuses can channel their illnesses into a creative power and that their extraordinary capabilities can act as a form of therapy. In A Beautiful Mind, for instance, Nash claims to “solve” his schizophrenia with the same part of his brain that he uses to solve mathematical puzzles. In her psychoanalysis of Virginia Woolf, Dalsimer provides a thoughtful, elegant exploration of the idea that a creative outlet can enable an artist to escape her inner life...