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...Broadway a decade after it opened, is hardly a perfect musical. The songs are functional, not indelible. The dialogue wallows in the least engaging of performer emotions, narcissism and self-pity. The plot asks you to believe that performers in a musical are selected on a kind of psychiatrist's casting couch, spilling their secret sordid pasts to the director. Yet the thing worked onstage as a puissant metaphor for shab-elegant show biz, where exhibitionism and humiliation dance in precise sync, where each passion must be displayed nakedly and clothed in artifice, where a dedicated pro's highest hope...
...house and whose dead father was once a popular highbrow novelist. Harry has had two wives, both of whom died young. For the past two years he has conducted a secret, passionate affair with his second wife's younger sister Midge, who is married to a Scottish, half-Jewish psychiatrist named Thomas McCaskerville. Harry wants Midge to leave her husband, and her stalling makes him fretful: "I love her, she loves me, yet we're in hell...
Dave Whiteman (Richard Dreyfuss) has made a fortune in coat hangers and has a life-style, but not much of a life, to show for it. He drives a Rolls, has a white-on-white-on-white living room and employs a psychiatrist for his dog, a lovable mutt named Matisse. Like any good Beverly Hills matron, Barbara Whiteman (Bette Midler) employs a guru and a nutritionist among the many other functionaries who cannot seem to solve her problems, which include too many migraines and too few orgasms. Their adolescent children, naturally, are having trouble with their sexual identities...
Last week Manes' political saga came to an abrupt end. He was in the kitchen of his Tudor-style home in tony Jamaica Estates, talking on the telephone with his psychiatrist about committing himself to a mental hospital. Increasingly despondent, the 52-year-old politician suddenly began rummaging through a drawer, pulled out an eight-inch knife and plunged it into his heart. His wife Marlene found him slumping to the floor moments later and pulled the blade from his chest, but he was dead in minutes. There was no suicide note; explanations were unnecessary. Federal prosecutors seemed poised...
After the war, political neutrality, social stability and cultural heritage helped spawn a popular aphorism: Austria's greatest postwar feat was to convince the world that Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler a German. Says Vienna Psychiatrist Harald Leupold-Löwenthal: "Waldheim is not such a surprising case. He adjusted, as many did, and then forgot the truth...