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Converts find anonymity to be online therapy's greatest selling point. Too embarrassed, ashamed or self-conscious to look a therapist in the eye, some find typing onscreen as direct and honest as writing in a journal. "I've never been good at expressing myself face to face," says Steele, 36, who says she feels less inhibited when typing onscreen. Elizabeth, 27, a graduate student in Southern California who has hidden her eating disorders from her family for more than 14 years, says online therapy helps her think less about her weight and more about the feelings that cause...
Every time I return to California, for example, from my sometime home in Japan, I find that every current movie not based on Thomas Hardy seems to be derived from Henry James. The only reason not to catch Victor Hugo onscreen is that we caught him on Broadway a few years ago. This week sees Ally McBeal venturing into an "Athenian" forest in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Indeed, the hottest writer of treatments in Hollywood (as he was three years ago) is that high-concept old guy Shakespeare. Keanu Reeves in Shamela? Bette Midler and Stephen Dorff...
DIED. DANA PLATO, 34, child star of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes; of an apparent drug overdose; at the home of her fiance's parents; in Moore, Okla. Plato, who suffered from drug and alcohol addiction, was arrested in 1991 for robbing a video store. Her onscreen siblings Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges have also had run-ins with the law since the hit series was canceled...
...Maxis will present The Sims, a fresh take on the company's SimCity3000 franchise--you still play God, but now you run (or ruin) the lives of those itty-bitty folk who live in your computer. Crafty adults will like Wrebbit's jigsaw puzzles: fit the pieces together onscreen to create a Bavarian castle or Victorian mansion, then explore the finished building in 3-D. Austin Powers goes head-to-head with Dr. Evil in Berkeley Systems' newest addition to the cheeky You Don't Know Jack trivia series. And in keeping with the latest trend in the toy business...
...right. My first reaction, once I got moving, was, "Wow! This is fun!" I loved how the picture changed onscreen whenever I moved my head. Swinging to the left, I could peer out a window and see the Atlanta skyline; looking up, I saw overhead bins; straight ahead was my pull-down tray and a row of empty seats. Sure, some essential details were missing--barf bags, crying babies, passengers jabbing me with their elbows--but that was O.K. It would have taken a lot more than that to fool me into thinking I was really flying...