Word: rehab
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...Today, these matters and manners may strike you as so very once-upon-a-time. Nobody "behaves" any more. In the post-Audrey age, when stars are in rehab before they're out of their teens, when British royals rut as strenuously as rock stars and a President gets impeached for accepting fellatio from an intern, deportment is a Victorian concept. Even in the 50s, a decade of such screen seraphs as Vivien Leigh, Claire Bloom, Grace Kelly and Jean Simmons (William Wyler's first choice for the role of Princess Ann), Hepburn was a glorious anachronism. She represented...
...mind have its way all the time when physical realities challenge it. In a patient stubbornly working to rehab after surgery, in a child practicing an instrument or struggling to create, a mind or will, clearly separate, hovers under the machinery, forcing it toward a goal. It's wonderful to see, such tangible evidence of that fine thing's power over the mere clumps of particles that, however pretty, will eventually clump differently and vanish...
...would have forgiven her, as Trump did. And steered her right. I don't know that I would have packed her off to rehab just yet, as Trump...
...Poundstone in 2001, when she was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol with her adopted children in the car. Allegations of child abuse were later dropped, and she pleaded guilty to a felony charge of child endangerment, was sentenced to probation and spent six months in a rehab facility. She's back on the stand-up circuit and is out with a book, There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say (Harmony), in which she talks about her legal problems - and many other things - through the lives of historical characters, from Joan...
...rehab for six months, and I started working the second I got out. Did every place want me back? Absolutely not. There are some places that will probably never have me back. But I have a certain core of fans that continue to come...