Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 17, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free july is it leg f i i m Nappy pins j Al to severe disorders berserk behaviour Edmonton up unable to shake a crushing sadness that dog ged her for several Laura asked her doctor for me put her on a six month wait ing list for a psychiatrist and Oil an Ait depressant drug called pro to was Bye Bye blues for the 29 Yea fold Vancouver healthcare work t Call them my Happy says Laura not her real manufactured by Eli Lilly and of prozac has been hailed by some As a Miracle treatment for unlike Many other it Doest cause Side effects such As weight Low blood irregular heart beat or slug and it int deadly in Over but theres another Side to the about the time Laura began taking she started hearing on daytime talk shows about users who had gone the details were tailor made for Oprah and Donahue violent outburst u a suicidal manic depressive named Joseph who was taking sprayed ak47 fire at coworkers at a printing Plant in Kentucky in he killed himself and eight Wesbecker sons and the families of three of the shooting victims claim prozac caused the violent there suing Eli Lilly and its the Best known of about 100 lawsuits connected with the and defendants in about 20 criminal cases have pleaded Insan Ity based on their taking the in what is called the prozac de Martin Teicher of Harvard medical school last year published a report citing Case studies where Mil mannered patients abruptly changed into suicidal maniacs while taking g a few months Edmonton Alderman Ken Kozak pleaded guilty to beating his estranged he said prozac made him do birthdays Wesbecker shooting spree the Church of scientology has launched a Well publicized ant pro Zac calling it a psych drug time h All adds up to an extra strength headache for the drugs manufacture which has tried to counter the bad publicity by citing clinical trials that dismiss any link Between prozac and violent suicidal tendency is a symptom of the not of says Marie a beleaguered sounding spokesman for Russell who Heads the mood disorders clinic at the Clarke Institute of psychiatry in Toron says prozac is getting a bad theres not a lot of debate in the medical Community about he its largely an Issue that has been played out in the Media and has almost no scientific Credi Bili Joffe dismisses teachers saying that of 170 users heightened suicidal fantasizing was found in Only a Hal dozen patients with Complex psychiatric the problem is we give prozac to patients who do have suicidal he the prozac based insanity defence has failed in All 10 of the criminal cases where it has been tried before a jury in the United each Case resulted in a conviction against the but that Hast stopped Calls for More tests and for warning labels on the drug in the United health and welfare Canada does not support claims the drug causes suicidal tendencies and says there Are no plans to add a warning to the birthdays of has he joined another either Way Well Clink our As he adds another year Donna Robinson Nee Kendrick Donna Happy 40th birthday love mum Kendrick and family the million Book Gamble rvtlm4i of photo Fly Coget Cohen new York times news service while the spending of More than million an Arnold Schwarzenegger Capers in cat dices new Termi Flator strikes Many As bold but quite possibly the payment of close to million for a Mere Book with a few Hundred pages and a handful of motionless pictures still seems yet that is what Bantam a subsidiary of Bertelsmann a of has recently agreed to spend for the world rights to the memoirs of a real life Norman in so it is betting like Lee Donald Trump and Chuck the hero of the persian Gulf War has a Story that will sell books in unusual life Story the celebrity life writ ten with a is now such a Staple of american life that few big stars or heroes have but the recent history of the genre is so Check ered that a pre diction is for every Iacocca there is a Ronald Reagan Memoir that flops for every Trump a Trump sequel that is a once in a Long you sell a million hardcover copies of this kind of and that causes the entrepreneurial spirit of publish ers to said Roger the publisher of but if you dont do its very easy to lose a couple of million although there Are Many Vari Ables that affect a books profit it appears from some pub Lishers estimates that the Schwarzkopf Book will have to sell at least copies in hardback and million copies in paperback to break Brown bid what Donald called a great Deal of Money for the Schwarzkopf but not Macmillan bid million Viking about Mil and random Mil the very Range of these offers reflects the extreme unpredictability of such the Only big House that did not bid was Simon which lost what other publishers Esti mated As a seven figure sum on reagans Book last having paid an estimated million in 1989 for reagans Mem As Well As a Book of the House fell victim to the ephemeral whims of Ameri when we signed that there was a warm feeling in everyone hearts for Rea but we did not realize How thin that a Simon Schus Bantam stands to win if it Sells More than a million copies of Schwarzkopf Ter executive Reagan just and the nostalgia we hoped would sell the Book was not and Charles who collaborated with Trump on his calamitous second Sun iving at the the ultimate thing with this kind of Book is the Public perception of the person at the time it is mobbed at a booksellers convention in june Trump was a dubious loser by the time his Book came out two months his first the Art of the sold More than a million copies Sunhi if it sold about a tenth of random House is believed by other publishers to have lost Well Over million on so could the Man that Bantam executives refer to As the Good general be As vulnerable to an abrupt swing in the Public mood by the fall of when his Book is due to be published when you go into a project like you give it a great Deal of said Linda bantams we would not have pursued it if we Felt there could be a turnabout in feel ing for the could i be wrong of i could in search of heroes she added i believe America is a country in search of weve had our problems weve been told were no Good that we cant compete with Schwarzkopf is the Antithesis of he stands for american doing a Job he embodies such As the very work ethic this country was founded that have enduring popular if the House can sell More than a million copies with Schwarz it will make a i suspect that the Book is probably a pretty smart buy for Donald of Brown but what Bantam cannot do with is hedge As effectively As a film maker by Selling the product abroad and in other forms like videos and pay for said it had earned Back most of its ii vestment on terminator 2 judg ment Day through foreign sales before the movie came even the most generous assess ment of bantams rights sales would not allow the House to earn Back More than half its invest ment before on the movie you can spread the risk much More both geographically and through products such As said Ste Ven a general partner and head of the Media depart ment at Lazard Freres Bantam is clearly concerned both about the generals image Over the next year and what it perceives As the need for enor Mous Speed in getting the Book out before a Reagan like the general will work very hard on the Book and make Only a few selected Public Grey Grey has told agents representing writers who May work with the general that the Manu script must be delivered by May 1992 leaving just eight months to write it from the Gener als retirement and that it is essential the Book be out before the 1992 the autobiography will have to compete against several Quick books on general including one by this but Grey dismissed the rival people want the generals she aside from the Money the Book Stuart a ban Tam argued that his entire company would Benefit from the fact that Schwarzkopf is now a Bantam generals presence the generals presence at sales conventions and at the american 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