Word: couchful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Night gig in 2000, the headlines might as well have read ANDY RICHTER LOSES MIND. Richter, 35, seemed the definition of a lucky stiff. An actor-comic whose brief pre-Conan resume included doing stage productions of Brady Bunch scripts, he was now being paid to sit on a couch, scope out the guests' jowls for plastic-surgery scars and make wisecracks. "There were some days when I would joke to people, 'If I play my cards right, I won't have to say a word tonight,'" he says...
...seven years on the couch was enough for Richter. "I didn't want to resent the show," he says. "If I stayed longer, I would have become like a kid who didn't leave home when he should have. I'd start thinking, 'My parents suck,' when the truth is really, 'No, you should have gotten a job.'" He has one now, starring in the funniest new sitcom of the spring, Andy Richter Controls the Universe (Fox, Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m. E.T.), which not only shows that Richter has not lost his mind but also invites you inside his head...
...Virginia Woolf: Becoming a Writer, psychologist Katherine Dalsimer explores the relationship between mental illness and artistic genius by putting Virgina Woolf on a psychiatric “couch.” The link between madness and genius has recently become a topic of national attention, especially as this year’s Oscar race focuses on A Beautiful Mind, the story of the schizophrenic, Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash...
Whatever the accommodations, Zahir Shah says he has no ambitions to retake the throne. "My principle is that I am subject to the free will of the people," he told Time during a rare interview at his house in Rome. Sitting cross-legged on a living room couch in his contemporary-style concrete villa in the northern part of the city, Zahir Shah described his mixed emotions on the eve of his return: "It has been a great desire to be back among the Afghan people. But there will also be great sadness and nostalgia for all that has happened...
...girl who grew up too fast is jumping off the shrink’s couch and expressing with clarity born of self-exploration exactly what she wants. She pinpoints the “21 Things I Want in a Lover,” underscoring her wishlist with a dictatorial drumbeat and distorted guitars courtesy of ex-Red Hot Chili Pepper Dave Navarro. Meet Alanis Morisette the empowered woman instead of the confused post-teenager...