Oliver Sacks Discusses "The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat."
Neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks, whose book of case studies, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, has been made into a music theater production. Sacks is also the author of Awakenings, a work about victims of sleeping sickness, to whom he administered the experimental drug L-dopa.
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Cult Favorite Squeeze's Clever Wordplay.
Rock Critic Ken Tucker will review "Babylon and On," by the British group Squeeze.
Evolution of a Blonde Bombshell.
Mamie Van Doren, one of Hollywood's blond bombshells in the fifties and sixties. She starred in the cult classics "Untamed Youth," "High School Confidential," and "Born Reckless." She's written a kiss-and-tell memoir called Playing the Field.
"The Pick-up Artist" is a Delight.
Guest Film Critic Michael Sragow, film critic for "The San Francisco Examiner," will review the new James Toback film "The Pick-up Artist," starring Molly Ringwald and Robert Downey.
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