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...sound lighthearted about his death obsession, it is because he does feel much better about life these days. One of the main reasons is that at the urging of his second wife Janie, who was hoping to save their marriage, he began to see an Atlanta psychiatrist, Dr. Frank Pittman, in 1985. Pittman did two important things for Turner. The first was to put him on the drug lithium, which is generally used to treat manic-depression as well as a milder tendency toward mood swings known as a cyclothymic personality. Turner's colleagues and J.J. Ebaugh, the woman...
TURNER AGREES THAT THE MEDICATION HELPED calm him down. But Pittman's second contribution was to help Turner exorcise his father. To understand why Turner and the father he worshipped had no ordinary filial competition, consider this: when young Turner did something bad, his father Ed beat him with a wire coat hanger. When young Turner did something very bad, Ed once ordered his son to beat him. "He laid down on the bed and gave me the razor strap and he said, 'Hit me harder,' " Turner told interviewer David Frost. "And that hurt me more than getting the beating...
...obligation to speak to them in terms they understand. MTV, USA Today, the PC and the VCR -- why, the acronym itself! -- are making the slow motion of words as obsolete as pictographs. The PLAY button's the thing. Writing in the New York Times not long ago, Robert W. Pittman, the developer of MTV, pointed out just how much the media have already adjusted to the music-video aesthetic he helped create. In newspapers, "graphs, charts and larger-than-ever pictures tell the big story at a glance. Today's movie scripts are some 25% shorter than those...
...actresses play five characters. Cheri Magnello plays Louise, the over-worked nurse; Andrea, a lawyer; and Sam, a painter. Victoria Pittman plays Alex and Dr. Emily Bernstein, an over-worked physician. The two succeed in avoiding confusion by making large changes of character and small changes of costume. The nurse grasps a briefcase to become a lawyer, a paintbrush to become a painter. Though Magnello and Pittman are convincing in each of their roles, in the quick changes, they often need more than a moment to find their new characters...
There is potential for Territories to be an intensely powerful show. The ideas are fresh, the issues pressing. Magnello and Pittman both have excellent voices and succeed in making comfortable an audience unused to opera...