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Since the Kelley Deal 6000 formed three years ago, it has undergone many incarnations, but Deal and Mund, who met in rehab, have been the core members. They started playing as a duo, but formed a band when the touring Red Red Meat summoned Kelley Deal as an opening act. Deal is frank about her time in rehab, but doesn't go into detail about why she ended up there. Though she started writing songs after she left rehab, she insists that song writing isn't therapeutic for her and that she's not using song writing to excavate...
...DRUG REHAB Thalidomide, banned 35 years ago for causing horrendous birth defects, may be okayed for a new role: treating leprosy...
...focus his modernizing campaign on the Prince of Wales, whom he had first met in the late 1980s. The Prime Minister regarded the Prince as a renovation, not demolition, project. "There were serious contacts between the new government and [Charles] to rehabilitate him," says a government official. The rehab campaign even extended as far as working to gain popular support for the Prince's relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles, who reportedly met several times with minister without portfolio Peter Mandelson, one of Blair's chief spin doctors...
...famous? Why do all these people seem to love me? I don't deserve it. I am a fraud." The anguished, neurotic internal monologue gets dramatized in self-destructive ways (drug overdoses, alcohol, rampages, broken marriages, suicides or, if the celebrities are lucky, a trudge through the rehab that ends with confession and absolution in prime time: "I feel more centered now, Barbara"); all this mess forms up as part of the great sobbing dysfunctional pageant on display at the supermarket check-out counters...
...also charges Southall with "a lot of trickery" in getting him to check into the Sierra Tucson drug-rehab center in Arizona last August. "I was there for one day and came home. I found that it took me to get myself together, instead of some program." Alluding to his new film, he says, "The flip side to having nothing to lose is having something to gain. I'm there--I'm getting there. I'm growing up. I'm happy as I'm going...