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During this period, his first marriage broke up, he underwent a course of psychiatric treatment with a disciple of Jung in a sanatorium near Lucerne. From 1912, he lived in Switzerland, where, until his death, he continued his spiritual struggle. "The true profession of a man," he said, "is to find his way to himself. I have become a writer, but I have not become a human being." This obsession was to be the driving factor in all of his novels...
...scribbled furiously all of his short life (twelve volumes of novels, poems, sketches, short stories), none of his later works ever remotely approached the success of The Red Badge, written before he had ever heard a shot fired in anger. When he died of tuberculosis in a German sanatorium on June 5, 1900, not yet 29, he was destitute and had been begging money from his literary friends, including Henry James and Joseph Conrad. His brother had to pay to have his body brought home to New Jersey for burial. It was the sort of end most people had predicted...
Quite Mad. By the time Killy was eight, he had won his first competition - a jumping contest. A bout with tuberculosis sent him to a sanatorium for four months, but by 14, he was promising enough to be picked for the French team that competed in a junior meet at Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy. He fell in the slalom at Cortina and suffered the first of two broken legs. "I was quite mad when I was young," he says. "I took too many chances." But he was also learning - developing the power, control and techniques that would make...
...anything-except numbness-after ingesting this filmed version of Jacqueline Susann's wide screen novel, loose ly based on the troubles of some semi-recognizable showbiz sickies. Among them are a platinum blonde (Sharon Tate) who makes nudies to pay for her husband's stay in a sanatorium; a young singer (Patty Duke) who later turns to bedding down with strangers; and a brassy voiced Broadway zircon in the rough (Susan Hayward...
When his father died in 1962, Rooks repaired his shattered psyche at a Swiss sanatorium, along lines that suggest the substance of the film and his ultimate redemption. Currently, he neither drinks nor smokes, lives in a Manhattan town house, and bristles with new film projects. He already has a contract with U.S. Distributor Walter Reade to film Hermann Hesse's mystical Siddhartha in India next January. "Hesse," says Rooks, "answers the three questions: Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going? If I can make a film showing this, I can reassure people...