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...which they told one another their dreams. Samuel Goldwyn, the movie-studio magnate, offered Freud $100,000 to write a love story that Goldwyn could turn into a motion picture. (He was rebuffed.) But Freud died in 1939, and the golden age of psychoanalysis lasted only until the 1950s. By then competing psychotherapeutic theories and approaches had begun to spring up, among them ego psychology, self-psychology, the object-relations school, interpersonal therapy and existential therapy. All revised Freud, and some rejected him outright...
...help him do so he comes up with systems. Clearly a fundamentally creative and intelligent person, he fills reams of paper with writing that can then be organized and reorganized. He obsesses over names, memorizing the full legal name of every member of congress who has served from the 1950s to the present. Most fascinating of all, he performs versions of "Meet the Press" and "Face the Nation" starring these politicos. He performs other shows as well, like the old "Superman" series, in condensed but otherwise verbatim versions that go on at regular schedules...
...quest for a nuclear weapon has obsessed the Pyongyang regime since the 1950s, when Kim Il Sung began working to amass an arsenal potent enough to deter a feared U.S. attack. Though Pyongyang has made gestures suggesting it was ready to make concessions in exchange for aid and security guarantees, neither Kim Il Sung nor his son gave up the raw material for bombmaking or renounced the desire to obtain the Bomb; in their mind, doing so would sap the country's bargaining strength and make the regime's survival dependent on its neighbors' goodwill...
...feet tapping to the jazzy rhythms of the Tin Pan Alley hit “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)”, these boys make looking good their job. And, well, it is. Over a three day shoot in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, the Din and Tonics masqueraded as their 1950s counterparts in a film that has already generated Oscar buzz...
Mona Lisa Smile stars Julia Roberts as a free-spirited and idealistic Berkeley graduate who comes to the conservative all-women’s college in the 1950s to teach art history. Her unconventional teaching methods both inside and outside the classroom inspire her traditional-minded students, including Joan (Julia Stiles) and Betty (Kirsten Dunst), to challenge their pre-determined futures as they come...