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...will further embarrass Paris Hilton in Fox's new The Simple Life--needs more talent than ever. Assistants at Bunim/Murray Productions are gofers, but banality begets opportunity. While chauffeuring company co-founder Mary-Ellis Bunim to the airport four years ago, Benjamin Greenberg told her that he wanted to write screenplays. Bunim recommended a book, and the pair discussed script structure on subsequent trips. Impressed, Bunim promoted him, and now Greenberg, 26, is a supervising story producer on another new Bunim/Murray show, Starting Over...
...thing is certain: if it is political, none of its employees or fans will believe that it is. I write about TV and media for a living. Few subjects, I've found, incite more reader mail than media bias. And yet--though media bias is supposedly everywhere and universally despised--no one has ever written me to complain that a network or newspaper was biased in favor of his political view. There is no subject about which people are less objective than objectivity...
...pediatrician, I often find myself becoming uneasy as I write a prescription for an antidepressant, mood stabilizer or stimulant. When medication is unsuccessful, I am reminded that a drug will not help an abused or neglected child feel safer or manage a parent with a poorly controlled bipolar disorder. A child's behavior, in large part, is influenced by his environment: witnessing or experiencing abuse will cause anxiety and depression; an empty stomach will contribute to distraction, loss of interest and a sullen state of mind. Before prescribing a drug for mood and behavior, health-care providers must consider genetic...
...anticipation of all those letters you'll get about how parents medicate rather than discipline or love their kids, I have to write. My son, 13, is on five different medications for attention-deficit/hyperactivity and bipolar disorder. The entire family has suffered through his bouts of suicidal thoughts, violence and mania. Although I am not entirely comfortable with having him on medication, it is the only thing that has worked. There may be another approach out there, but right now I am too sapped of energy, emotion and time from dealing with my son and the effects...
...DIED. DON GIBSON, 75, second-grade dropout who went on to write classic country ballads about loneliness and heartache; in Nashville, Tennessee. Gibson was a pioneer of the Nashville Sound, a spare style without fiddles or pedal steel guitars, and wrote two of his most famous songs-Oh Lonesome Me and I Can't Stop Loving You, a Ray Charles hit in 1962-on the day his television and vacuum cleaner were repossessed. "When I wrote those songs, I couldn't have been any closer to the bottom," he said...