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Ironically enough, the family member most blessed with these qualities is Diana, the outsider now determined to follow her own path. Last month she opened a drug-rehab center in Brixton, a London slum that was the scene of grim riots in 1981. In a sense she was updating her grandmother-in-law's forays into blitz-ravaged areas. Despite the best efforts of the staff, not all the planned events came off, and the visit looked to come up short. Diana read the situation at once, and asked to hear more from the lusty gospel choir that had sung...
...Rehab Time...
...smitten girl, he sits by the phone, head to it, waiting for it to ring. He's miffed when she's late for a date. After sex, he says, "You make me feel dirty" and "I'm calling my mother." It makes for good comedy -- and clever career rehab...
...shadow world of Dysfunction: amid drugs or booze or binge eating. Or else in Denial of something, of incest, say, or child abuse, or another shameful secret. This is the Exemplary Ordeal. Celebrity Hits Bottom (descent into underworld). Then stumbles halfway up, to Betty Ford or some equivalent purgatorial rehab. At last, fallen angel reascends to the upper air, finds new life (often new mate as well, or else peace with the truth that, hey, it's O.K. to be alone). The rebirth is celebrated on the cover of PEOPLE: Drew Barrymore, Richard Pryor, Kitty Dukakis, Roseanne Arnold...
Give Tyson a break for a second and hope he can make the distinction between life and sport, between what he is and what he does -- what he has been trained, molded, programmed to achieve since he was a 13-year-old reform- school rehab project for fight manager Cus D'Amato. Tyson can't be convicted for the role he plays or the work he chooses. And in the half of his life devoted to boxing, he has attracted mentors, sportswriters and, yes, Givens with evidence of softness, hints of heart: the odd fluty pitch of his voice...