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Theodosakis' TV appearance was part of the media blitz marking publication of his book, The Arthritis Cure (St. Martin's Press; $22.95). With 16 million Americans suffering from the crippling pain of osteoarthritis, it's not surprising that a personable young doctor promising a "cure" would get his minutes of fame. Or that his book's initial printing of 100,000 copies would vanish from the shelves within days...
...N.Y.U. Medical Center's rheumatology division. Other doctors point out that it's impossible to separate the effects of the supplements from those of the other steps in Dr. Theo's program. And many are harshly critical of the book's title--noting that there is no known "cure" for osteoarthritis...
...mother of an epileptic boy first looks at doctors as exorcists. But as she sees them prescribe a series of harsh medications, each creating side effects that the next is supposed to treat, she wonders if they aren't sadists--and if they know of a potential cure that they smugly refuse to recommend...
Every problem movie is really a solution movie; it must offer a cure at the end of the agony; parents may surrender to copelessness but never to hopelessness. So Lori hears of the Ketogenic Diet, a regimen that has quelled seizures in perhaps a third of the epileptic children who've tried it. Among the controversial diet's true believers are the film's director, Jim Abrahams (of the team that created the Airplane! and Naked Gun farces), and his son Charlie, 4, whose seizures ceased after he went on the diet and who plays a cameo role here...
MOVIES . . . TOUCH: Writer-director Paul Schrader's sly and nicely understated adaptation of novelist Elmore Leonard's 'Touch' is the story of Juvenal, a Christ figure who has adapted to the modern era. Played by Skeet Ulrich, he has done time in the wilderness, suffers the stigmata and can cure the incurable by the laying on of hands. Otherwise, though, he's a cool dude. He likes girls, shows no particular interest in spreading any sort of gospel and turns a politely bemused face toward the hustlers and lowlifes who swarm around when word of his preternatural healing gifts starts...