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Savannah achieves perfect-pitch campiness while steering clear of the baroque absurdity in which Melrose has lately dabbled. There is little chance, for example, that anyone on Savannah will enter an insane asylum and emerge a psychoanalyst--which is not to say Savannah is lacking in comedy. This is a show, after all, in which actors and actresses are made to address each other as "you cheap piece of white trash" with as much sweaty disgust as they can muster...
Rather than trying to mirror the overexposed world of upper-middle-class urban life, Dr. Katz creates its own absurd version of it. The show revolves around Dr. Katz (his voice belongs to creator and writer Jonathan Katz), a divorced psychoanalyst saddled with a 23-year-old son who still lives at home. Unlike almost every other new sitcom on TV, Dr. Katz does not rely on fast and furious quips filled with trendy pop-cultural references. Instead it features surreal, laconic riffs, many of them between the doctor and his son Ben (who, after seeing himself mentioned...
...while money is part of it, the deal can be fully understood only by laying the spreadsheets over a psychoanalyst's couch. For Iacocca, triumph followed by setbacks and then vindication has been a lifelong theme. "After Chrysler's bailout," says a close associate of Iacocca's, "the Secretary of the Treasury saw him arriving at a football game in his private jet. He called him and told him to get rid of the plane. Lee did, but then turned around and bought Gulfstream. Don't get mad, get even. That's pure Lee.'' His best-selling autobiography opens with...
Pizer is a psychologist and psychoanalyst whosaid yesterday that he has worked with people whohave been victims of family violence and parentalemotional abuse...
After losing the case in an earlier trial,New Yorkerwriter Janet Malcolmwas cleared of libel in a lawsuit brought by a psychoanalyst who said she'd made up quotes in an unflattering article about him. A U.S. District Court jury in San Francisco found that two quotes used by Malcolm were indeed false, but it ruled that Jeffrey Masson failed to prove a deliberate or reckless disregard for the truth -- a higher standard that applies to public figures under fire. The 1992 New Yorker article focused on Masson's firing as projects director of the Sigmund Freud Archives. After Masson...