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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 15, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Enter pamment Winnipeg free press january Page 18 Chuck features editor Lewis feeds off therapy sessions comedian find jokes in neuroses by Andrew Mccarthy entertainment news service us Magazine Calls him the coolest neurotic since Woody rolling Stone says he has cornered the shrink joke the Hollywood reporter affectionately terms him a therapy Junkie he is Richard one of americas hottest who has created an entire comedy stockpile out of his psychiatric therapy Lewis plays Marty Gold in the hit series anything but love wednesday on co starring Jamie Lee but As Lewis explains Marty Gold int exactly Richard Why because Lewis is a lot More what else problems Marty Gold is a Little bit like me in some in that Hes got you big says but Marty also has better which i never had my postures been bad for years As soon As the show wraps on a Friday night i relax and skulk Back to my its Back to my bad i really have to act when it comes to its no joke when Lewis says he has spent nearly a fifth of his life talking with Ive been seeing shrinks since he i was just out of College i was that when i began to see have i seen some the first was a woman from she wore a Ruby on her forehead and was so bad that she could charge Only a Dollar an from India i she didst know what i was talking about no Trust Lewis says Hes very Down about psychiatrists West of the Mississippi he Doest Trust that a problem he sipping a cup of theres no Way that they can relate to my East coast in from new Jersey How can a Westerner Lewis with Jamie Lee Curtis Felt like celebrity at College football game but introduction went relate to a Guy from new Jersey How Are they going to understand my neuroses i went to a therapist in Texas once you try and cry in front of a doctor who wears a 10gallon Lewis says neuroses Are too easy to come by out Here in los Angeles its easy to get says i just spent for French ladies and that right that would make anyone to make matters i think they feel guilty about charging so much How can you Richard came the natural he they put raisins on but the really telling guilt sign was the a Strawberry Only goes on if they feel guilty about something you they throw you a and nothing goes worse with strawberries than Maple Many of these suspicions and doubts go Back to when Lewis was a Schoolboy in new it was during that period that things got and laughter was it was All very says putting his hand up to his brow in a familiar Richard Lewis esque in school i just could not keep a straight face in front of authoritative the More they looked at me and talked to the louder i would As one might this caused Lewis a few uncomfortable i used to lose he and i Stop until they dragged me to the principals at that Point i would laugh still what a mad but Lewis was never he thinks he knows my theory on that is the school officials could never expel me for merely i How could they put expelled for laughing on my record through it Lewis muddled on College so he enrolled at Ohio state majoring in that was he somehow i was Able to Stop the the highlight of College was getting they invited me Back two years ago to be grand marshal at a football Felt like a in the Middle of his big everything came crashing it was a Case of mistaken Lewis i wanted to be introduced to the crowd As the Man who just did his 40th show on late night with David this suited gent told the crowd i was the newest Star on the new Hollywood i nearly i searched the crowd for a i what else could i do i wanted to stick my head inside the the new Hollywood squares was fun because you could be but that int my claim to Lewis recovered from that experience Only to be hit with still another my Mother called me about a show i did on Lewis she said the audience seemed to like this disturbed because i thought the audience loved it was a particularly Good show and i thought mom was giving it Short she Means i Tell Lewis adds that his mothers doubts about him Are caused by the fact that he was always different As a in still he in the Only Gypsy in the while in Here in doing the circuit and pretending i have Good the rest of the family is Back East and All that Motherly doubt has affected Lewis in another Way As his love life has he my expectations have been i just want the woman to like me As Long As they dont spit at me i consider it a successful and last but not theres anything but and Jamie Lee after a successful run of six episodes last the show has been renewed with High expectations from Abc its a hip says with More writers this year it should be even better than last Lewis grows i remember when i first got the part of he i gave one of the Best cold reads i have Ever Jamie Lee jumped gave me a and exclaimed that this Guy is my Marty i thanked bowed gracefully to the and politely made my Way out of the they probably thought i was such a when they called me with the Good news i told my agent to rape them for All the Money they did Lewis get millions he says like my last they just spit at 108 Angeles times Syndicate renowned psychologist dead at 70 by Gary Norris the Canadian press Laurence the Canadian born discoverer of the principle that explains Why everything tends to go has died in his sleep at his los Angeles he was Peter was a psychologist and a professor of but his Best known the Peter was a elegant based on his experience with educational and other the Peter principle can be briefly stated in a Hierarchy every employee tends to Rise to his level of what this Means is that if you can do your Job to your superiors Satis you will be if you function appropriately in your new you Are eligible for promo Tion you will be promoted to a Job you cannot do and there you will As a meddlesome and obstructive income in Peter every Post tends to be occupied by someone incompetent to carry out its he the Only people who accomplish any useful Are those who have not yet been promoted to their level of the Book has sold eight million copies and is still available in paper Back in North America More than two decades after it was first pub born in Vancouver on worked in the school system and became a professor at the University of British leaving in 1966 to work at the univer sity of Southern he died peacefully in re cent years he had been in poor suffering heart trouble and a he is survived by his four children from a previous marriage and three As Raymond coauthor of the Peter wrote in the books introduction dare you read it dare you in one blinding the reason Why schools do not bestow Why govern ments cannot maintain Why courts do not dispense Why Prosperity fails to produce Happi Why your utopian plans never generate if you you can never regain your present state of Blissful Igno Rance you will never again unthinkingly venerate your superiors or dominate your never the Peter principle once cannot be u of m to feature Early works of dramatist Tennessee Williams what has turned out to be some thing of a Tennessee Williams Festi Val on Winnipeg stages this theatre season continues this week at the University of Manitoba with a pair of the famous playwrights Early admirers of the pulitzer prize winning dramatist have been treated recently to some of his most me Morable plays cat on a hot tin roof at Manitoba theatre Centre and Mac warehouses current production of the Glass beginning the u of is Black Hole theatre company will stage two of his More obscure hello from Bertha and i Rise in cried the they form two thirds of an evening of one act plays collectively called sex in the am i Blue by american playwright Beth Henley rounds out the Henley is Best known for her play crimes of the which Hollywood adapted to film in we called them sex in the South because its a title which contains words that would be enticing to Manitoban in the Middle of said Victor the English pro Fessor who directs hello from All of them Deal with male female relationships and have an erotic ele Williams wrote hello from Bertha in the Many years before the Mississippi born writer Rose to world wide prominence with the Glass menagerie in 1945 and a Streetcar named desire in there is evidence that Bertha was a forerunner of two of his Best known theatrical i see Bertha As a prototype of Blanche Dubois in a Streetcar named desire and Laura in the Glass Menag said like is very flamboyant and the and like alone and one of lifes hello from set in a Louis is a Short sketch of the doomed heroine in the throes of a mental Bertha is a Dis traught who fantasizes about her Williams finds human suffering said a some times he finds people inter Esting at the Point where they break Down from adversity or Williams Drew on human suffering for his on stage Kevin Prokosh its a fascinating Little especially knowing what Williams did with those themes in i Rise in cried the Williams looks at the last Days of English writer dying of tuberculosis on the French he presents Lawrence As a male supremacist who believes women strive to undermine the natural dominance of that belief is juxtaposed with the bedridden novelists dependence on his wife sex in the South runs nightly tues Day through saturday and 2327 at the Black Hole located in the basement of u of is University col 5 Odd for aviation buffs who cant forget when Canada once developed the most advanced Jet fighter in the the legend of the Avro Arrow opens at the National arts Centre in Ottawa a co production of the nac and Toronto Canadian stage the legend of the Avro Arrow was written by Clinton Bomp Hray and directed by Guy in 1959 the John Diefenbaker government terminated the develop ment of the forcing the firing of Over skilled workers across Odd for those who Are willing to Fly a Little further to see Mac is sponsoring a nine Day Spring tour to London West Mac artistic director Steven Schipper will accompany about 30 Winni Eggers to famous tourist such As Buck Ingham Pauls Cathedral and big As Well As to the Best that London stages have to the which is being offered through quinns International features tickets to six including Andrew Lloyd web Bers aspects of miss Saigon and a Royal Shakespeare company the tour costs about and includes air and surface transport seven nights accommodation in a fourstar hotel and various the Mac group leaves for England april 29 and returns May its a so interested people should Contact Mac i v e r s a r y National champions Wayne Natalie Seybold Winnipeg free press family night All tickets be Price for the january 24th performance treat the whole family to the opening performance of Winnipeg free press family night of ice Capanes at the Winnipeg Arena january for half the regular tickets Inu Orch til available at All select seat locations and Arena in Box 98th of Mcdill for group ticket information Call 7807328 excluding special vip Golden anniversary seats ;