Word: rehabing
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...Hollywood couplings are as enduring as success and rehab. GEORGE CARLIN has managed to elude that phenomenon longer than most, but last week, as his latest book, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, spent its ninth week on the New York Times best-seller list, the comic announced that he was checking into a substance-abuse facility. In a statement, Carlin revealed he was headed to an unnamed clinic "because I use too much wine and Vicodin." He said his addiction is "nowhere near the worst you hear about ... but my use would have progressed, and I didn...
Merry Christmas, moviegoers! What does Hollywood have in store for you this wintry holiday season? Paris Hilton with clothes? Lindsey Lohan tying up loose ends with dear old dad in rehab? Creepy men with masks stalking around the opera house? Super-mega-ultra-epic biopics directed by Martin Scorcese? Nope. Sorry. You’ll be too busy buying late presents for the family you’ve neglected to catch a flick any time before New Year’s. What to buy? DVDs, of course...
...provisional lifestyle they've led for the past year, but Iranian authorities have yet to approve a master plan for the $1 billion reconstruction effort. An even more daunting challenge is rebuilding people's spirit. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is running a psychosocial rehab program, aimed at helping Bam's children come to terms with the death and destruction they witnessed. Shokrollah Arab, 10, was lying next to his parents when they were crushed by a collapsing wall. Since then he's lived in an orphanage, with a tidy bed that he never sleeps in. Fearing another...
...word rehab typically conjures up stark visions of hospital beds and group therapy in drafty rooms. Hoping to change that is the Sanctuary?a new, five-star detoxification center for those with problems of addiction (to anything from alcohol to drugs to gambling), located in the stunningly beautiful surrounds of Australia's Byron Bay. Its clients are entrepreneurs, top professionals and other affluent individuals for whom the subject of addiction may be painfully taboo. Instead of opting for a neighborhood 12-step program, they would rather ensconce themselves in the opulent seclusion of the Sanctuary's beachfront villas, which come...
...funky, feckless Peppers' dues-paying years is vivid and inspiring. Good-natured and up for anything, he ground out those early days drifting from couch to couch, ingesting Costco-size quantities of coke and heroin and touring on the cheap. Success arrives on cue, as do groupies, rehab and relapses. He drinks yaks' milk with the Dalai Lama, makes out with Sinéad O'Connor and opens for the Stones...