Word: rehabing
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...rather, Huh?--in a moment. But first, a bit of history. Dancing began as a British hit with the grammatically undiagrammable title Strictly Come Dancing. It has since been exported worldwide. In Australia, it even provided some image rehab for white-power politician Pauline Hanson, who danced on a stage rather than on the aspirations of Aborigines and immigrants. But ABC passed on the idea--"It's a hard sell on paper," admits executive producer Conrad Green--before producers persuaded reality-division head Andrea Wong to watch a tape with her staff. "I thought it was a big risk...
...tell you one that's as obvious as the nose on your face: Don't let recidivists out! I don't care what any shrink will tell you. I've been in the trenches for ten years. Sex offenders do not get rehabbed. I think that it's always been that way. I hate to sound jaded - I don't believe that every criminal should go to jail, I think people with drug problems, alcohol problems, burglaries, thefts, car-jackings, anything that's not a violent crime, should be tried to be treated through rehab. I really...
...child, psychologist Bedford, for example, often fought with her twin, Barbara, and her elder sister Margie. In adulthood, the three women harbored grudges and rarely saw one another. But in 1985, after Margie had a serious accident, her siblings teamed up to tend to her through months of rehab. The three of them talked through their childhood conflicts. Margie was their father's favorite, Barbara was their mother's, and Victoria felt like a neglected middle child. The women acknowledged those realities but also showed one another that there was a flip side to being a favorite, including a larger...
...congenial comedian who took off in the middle of making the third season of his acclaimed Comedy Central show, popped unannounced into two Los Angeles comedy clubs last week. They were Chappelle's first performances since his abrupt escape to South Africa. (Onstage, he ridiculed the rumors of rehab.) Meanwhile, sales of his second-season DVD package are breaking records, with 1.2 million copies sold in the first week alone. Now that's something nice to come home...
...hide your problems, at least disclose them on your terms. Take singer Bobby Brown and wife Whitney Houston: she just got out of rehab; two members of his entourage were stabbed at a restaurant last week. In Being Bobby Brown (debuts June 30), we meet them in the middle of a marital-bonding experience: his court hearing for allegedly beating her, a charge that Houston has denied. (We learn that their daughter gets out of school on daddy's "court days," like other kids do on snow days.) Brown has said he signed up for the show to counter...