Word: self-help
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...also returned to the fold after marrying a Ukrainian Catholic. Mary, 40, married a lapsed Methodist and worships "God's creation" in her own unstructured fashion. Rosie, 38, drifted into the Hindu-influenced Self- Realization Fellowship. Chris, 34, picked Unitarianism, which offered some of Christianity's morality without its dogma. Theresa, 36, spent five years exploring the "Higher Power" in 12-step self-help programs. Ann, 30, called off her wedding when her nonpracticing Jewish fiance embraced Orthodoxy, a crisis that "sparked a whole new journey...
...eclectic, New Age-ish church has grown from 10 members to more than a thousand since 1977. It offers everything from self-help groups like Debtors Anonymous to a "pet ministry" for adopting stray animals. Songs one Sunday ranged from Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' to Danny Boy. In between, sneaker- shod Matoin bounded around like a school coach: "Everyone here was born to be a winner: you've got the choice." When he finished, the crowd sang, "Weave, weave us together in unity and love. Weave, weave us together. Let there be peace on earth, let it begin with...
Alas, The Goodbye Girl went wrong in at least four of those 50 ways. What arrived on Broadway last week is earnest, serviceable yet rarely stirring and almost never believable. It's never outright bad, it's occasionally funny, and twice -- when Peters sings the self-help anthem How Can I Win? and when Short courts her on a rooftop -- it's thrilling. But most of the craftsmanship is humdrum. The narrative lacks suspense and liberating flights of fancy. The production has no style, no look, no distinctive flavor or texture or sound. And it constantly brings to mind better...
...Dragon His Feet (Mark Baskin) is stolen unabashedly from Stuart Smalley, the Alan S. Franken '73 character on Saturday Night Live, Baskin is excellent as the co-dependent lizard, the "self-help salamander." His song, "Stop Dragon Your Heart Around," is fun, albeit a little long...
...Inaugural Address. "Let us embrace it." Last week he had an embrace for everyone, and not just the stars. This huggy-bear President needs to feel the electromagnetism of approval -- but in a New Age way. His seeming candor is an amalgam of born- * again witnessing and self-help testifying, of the church and the couch; you half expect his budget package to be a 12-step program. "I used to play my saxophone a lot, sometimes when I was angry but usually when I was lonely," Clinton told Mister Rogers during the Salute to Children. "I could play...