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Monday, August 28, 2006

Dept of Mind in Gutter

Posted by on August 28 at 14:25 PM

Seeing this headline, triggered an image of this guy doing something unsavory.

In slightly more civilized news: A 1947 issue of the New Yorker published this item on a psychologist who helps performers fight stage fright. His treatment (which can be reduced, simply, to “think happy thoughts”) does not include any of the methods pursued by the celebrities mentioned in John Lahr’s good—not great, but good—essay on stage fright in this week’s New Yorker (Sorry, it’s not online.) Some go for drinking. Some go for spanking. Some go for “slapping the shit out of De Niro.” Some go for disappearing in the middle of a run, driving to Jutland, and swearing never to perform on stage again. The latter was Stephen Fry, the “man with the brain the size of Kent.” The others you’ll have to find out for yourselves.