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DAILY JOURNAL, JOHNSON COUNTY. IND. ACCENT SATURDAY-SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25-26, 1999 TV and rists are 7iii' yehiat By Ronald Bergan Hitchcock's mise en scene usually goes far deeper than the half-baked psychological explanations for his protagonists' anti-social -behavior. In "Psycho" (1960), Dr, Richman explains the behind Norman Bates's homicidal' actions: "If he felt a strong attraction to another woman, the mother side of him Would go wild. It was the jealous mother who killed the girl." Hollywood, which has always been simpler about complexes, has tended to depict psychiatrists as either pompous gurus or as crazier than their patients.

At the start of "Analyze This," Billy Crystal is stoically listening to a female patient droning on about her marriage woes when he imagines himself suddenly standing up in front of her and shouting, "Shut up. Stop moaning and get a life!" If a few more film psychiatrists had said this, we might have been spared all those flashbacks and dream sequences that led to pat solutions and hasty cures. To paraphrase Sam Goldwyn: "Anyone who wants to learn about psychiatry from the movies should have their head examined." sequence, with her hair down, she wears a wedding gown of gigantic proportions. Her psychoanalyst interprets this f.o mean that a woman's place is in a wedding dress and that her obsession with clothes disguises her fear of the naked body. In 1946 alone, there were three films "Shock," "The Seventh Veil" and "Spellbound" which used psychiatrists as deus ex machina.

"Shock" was the first of a number of movies to show a therapist (Vincent Price) as a murderer. It outraged psychiatrists in America who protested that it was "a loathsome portrayal of a highly respected profession." (What would they have said of Dr. Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Alfred Hitchcock recognized that "Spellbound" was "a manhunt story wrapped up in Psychiatrist Ingrid Bergman tries to solve a murder mystery by analyzing why amnesiac Gregory Peck becomes inexplicably disturbed when staring at the impressions left by a fork on a white tablecloth. By interpreting Peck's heavily symbolic dream, she realizes that the lines remind him of ski tracks on snow, which leads to the discovery of a American and British films did- n't tackle psychiatry until long after it had become a social institution. It was only after the trauma of World War II that the "new science" was deemed a fit subject for the movies.

John Huston brought his cameras to a war veterans' mental hospital in Long Island, where he recorded the patients' encounters with staff psychiatrists. The result was the impressive documentary "Let There Be Light," the intent being to demonstrate that neurotic problems could be successfully treated, and that those suffering from them deserve as much respect from civilian society as those who had been wounded in other ways. Among the few fictional films to use this theme was the British-made "Mine Own Executioner" (1947), based on the Nigel Balchin novel, which had a mentally disturbed war veteran being helped by a lay psychologist. At the same time, Hollywood discovered that a touch of Freud could be photogenic, and produced several films to prove it. One of the first was "Lady in the starred Ginger Rogers as the unmarried editor of a fashion magazine who wears severely tailored suits and has her hair up.

During a Freudian dream 1 SCRim HOWARD PHOTO Bruce Willis stars as child psychologist Dr. Malcolm Crowe, an emotionally shattered man haunted by his past, in the thriller "The Sixth Sense." Ronald Bergan writes for The Guardian in London. Friends Meet" "Where Appearing Tonight at The Willard 1 ill -rT icihieoos l- lie (Music starts at 10:00) 99 N. Main, Franklin, IN (317) 738-9668 Psychiatry featured in German Expressionist films as early as 1919 in "The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari," in which the eponymous doctor is a director of an asylum though he himself is mad.

Pabst's "Secrets of a Soul" (1926), co-scripted by two of Freud's collaborators, concerned a professor consulting a psychoanalyst because he has nightmares whenever he sees or thinks of a knife, a phobia which leads to an attempt to stab his wife. PAGE CI here," Pile says. Many men still ftel more comfortable at a barbershop than another hair-cutting place. Mike Lauster of Greenwood says he's been going to Ward's shop for 30 years to have his hair cut. "I've been to a stylist but keep coming back to (Ward).

He knows how I like it done," Lauster says. Josh Edwards, 24, of Whiteland, who was having his hair cut by Shay on Thursday, shares the same sentiment. "I sit in the chair and they know how to cut my hair. I know it's done right," Edwards says. Men's confidence in them is what keeps barbers working six days a week.

Russell Bryant of Franklin has been barbering for 52 years, 35 of those in the same building on North Main Street in Franklin. He still works five days a week, taking Wednesdays off "When I was a boy in Shelbyville and Edinburgh, haircuts were 25 cents," he remembers. "In union shops, 75 cents." Bryant was secretary of the local union when 21 barbers worked in Franklin. Currently, about four barbershops are left. He now charges $6.

Bryant says the burr and flat top haircuts started after World War II, when young men copied the military style. He says he's less impressed with the chili bowl, but if asked, Bryant will do it. His customers include a lot of retired preachers from the Methodist and Masonic homes, as well as young people. Tuesday, Cale Setser, a customer of Bryant's for 50 years, came in for "a trim and a little off the back." Brenda Morin, Lea Slater and Lynn Chesser, who also taught Namiki. Namiki was chosen Miss Yokohama in 1998.

Alan Leonard, a southside Indianapolis professional photographer, won the highest print score for a first-time entry at the Professional Photographers Guild fall seminar irr Columbus Convenient Affordable Home Tutoring Educational Smkis SCR1PPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE It is a sobering fact that more people are seeing psychiatrists this year than ever before. At least, in the movies and on televi- sion. Psychiatrists have featured Z. in two box-office hits, "The Sixth Sense" and "Analyze This," and in the HBO series "The Sopranos." some strange coincidence, both "Analyze This" and "The '1 Sopranos" revolve around the quaint notion of a mobster having to consult a psychoanalyst. Comedian Billy Crystal, behind a beard in an attempt to give him gravitas, is the psychiatrist con- fronted by mafioso Robert Pe Niro, who has suffered a panic attack.

When he isn't dealing in "waste management," Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) manages to get in touch witl his ten-i der side when telling all to his therapist, a convenient narrative device, in a trend begun by hit man John Cusack visiting a terrified Alan Arkin in "Grosse Pointe Blank." 1 In the smash hit "The Sixth Sense," Bruce Willis plays a child psychologist. The question is, would you send your child to Bruce Willis? But Crystal and Willis are no Barbers neck. They also trim mustaches. "Shaving is kind of a lost art," Ward says. Electric shavers had a lot to do with the demise of the facial shave, barbers say that and the danger of HI and hepatitis.

Business has been good for Ward, so much that he's adding another chair to his shop in November when Debbie's hus band, Steve Shay, finishes barber college. And though he is learning to color and perm, he won't be doing it at Tracy Plaza. "We'll leave that to the beauty shops," Ward says. Besides prices which ran about $1 a head 30 to 40 years ago to $6 to $9 currently in Johnson County there have been few major changes in the profession in the last 30 years. Standard equipment such as scissors and razors have improved, but the shops have changed little.

"I still try to maintain the old-time atmosphere," says Ward, a Whiteland barber for 30 years. Ward has a lour-chair shop with two male barbers and two female barbers. A year ago he began taking appointments and saw his business expand. "We used to have people wait an hour and a half," he says. Ward's customers range in age from 16 to 91.

"I'm doing some fourth-generation haircuts," he says. "I'd like to be (barbering) for the fifth generation and tell some kid I knew his great-great-grandfather." Although the number of barbershops is decreasing, those that remain still seem like men's People He added some additional spices, which might have done the trick, he says. Angrick was featured in a story about the chili cookoff Sept. 15 in the Daily Journal. Kvle Leslie of Indianapolis, also representing Perry Township Fire Department, placed third "It was nice to win something," Leslie says.

Fresh spices were likely what made his chili a winner as well. "It. was hot, though. That was for darn sure," he says. Teresa Mankin has joined the staff of the Johnson County Community Foundation as a program associate for grants and scholarship programs.

She comes to the foundation "from Indepen MANKIN dent Colleges of Indiana, where RAGE "When I'm too hairy, I say I want a hair cut," Setser says. Bryant says doesn't plan to retire. "I could never loaf," he says. Barbering is an ancient trade. Razors dating from the Bronze Age have been unearthed by archaeologists.

Before the time of Henry VIII, the barber not only cut hair but also pulled teeth and performed surgery. It was during Henry VIH's reign that a law was passed that forbade barbers to perform surgery except for bloodletting and tooth pulling. Likewise, the law forbade surgeons from cutting hair. In Western culture, the practice of barbering has remained the same since colonial days, according to the article "Barbershops Going Out of Style" in the January February issue of Preservationist, published by Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana. When barbering was at its peak before the Fab Four barbershops could be found in train or bus stations to accommodate travelers, or near factories where men worked.

"There used to be (a barber shop) on every corner," says Reed, whose shop on Madison Avenue across from Greenwood Park Mall has three chairs and is Open six days a week. When Reed started barbering, he charged $1 a head. Now, 50 years later, the price is $8. "Not much," he says. With the shortage of barbershops, Reed keeps busy.

He's open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 to 5 p.m. Saturdays. Six days a week, every week.

"You've got to like it or you wouldn't stay with it," he says. Tupperwcrc Call to earn free Tupperware. Jill 859-9353 New Rainbow Sales Kindergarten Adult Reading, Writing, Study Skills and Assessment Testing Computer Training Elementary-College Math, English, Spanish, French Including Algebra Geometry Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics One on One Tutoring No Prepayment Required Head of the Class Educational Services Toll Free 1-877-210-2528 less acceptable as psychiatrists than many other actors who have preceded them over the years. Think of the heavily sedated Montgomery Clift, mumbling behind whiskers in the title role of John Huston's "Freud" (1962), or Peter Sellers in a fright wig as Dr Fritz Fassbender, the manic German psychiatrist in "What's New Pussycat?" (1965) outlining his theory of sexual psychology: "A lascivious adulterer is a man who is a lascivious adulterer." FROM "'This is where the men come. This is a man's place" Alex Stucker, 5 on Sherman' Barber Shop clubs.

Conversations usually center on sports or local issues. Bob Pile of Edinburgh, a barber for 39 years, took over his father-in-law's barbershop, Sherman's. It has occupied the same building since 1942. Pile remembers when flat tops cost $1.25. "If you couldn't cut a flat top, you were out of business," he says.

While other barbers were going out of business in the '60s, Sherman's stayed because of its proximity to Camp Atterbury. "It's been our mainstay," Pile says. "We do a lot of Army business, from colonels on down." But even his business has changed. "I cut a lot of women's hair now," Pile admits. Yet as 5-year-old Alex Stucker climbs in the chair for a flat top, it seems as if nothing has changed.

Alex's mom, Misti Burton, says Alex used to cry when he had his hair cut. "Now he says, 'This is where the men come. This is a man's she says. In past years, the barbershop was considered the male's domain. "We solved a lot of problems she helped administer the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Program.

She spent five years in the U.S. Army as a journalist and is a 1998 IUPUI graduate. She and her husband, Matthew, live in Franklin. They have a son, Michael. The 77th consecutive annual reunion of the Cort and Adelheid Bruns family will be Sunday at the home of Dr.

Joseph and Lorianne Meek in Bargersville. The first Bruns reunion was in 1923 in unman, and only one family member Geneva Dreyer Tapscott, who lives just north of Greenwood has succeeded in attending each of the gatherings over the years. Cort and Adelheid and the three oldest of their nine children came to America in 1846 from Wachendorf Germany. They settled in the southeastern part of Indiana, mostly around Sunman in Ripley County. Noriko Namiki of Yokohama, Japan, was recently the dinner guest of Margaret Mardis of Franklin, her former teacher at Shelbyville High School.

Other guests were Shelbyville teachers 10 E. County Line Greenwood 'r The Greenwood Friends of the Library FALL BOOK SALE October 7 Friends Night 5:30 p.m. 9:00 p.m. Open to current Friends Members only. Not sure of your renewal date? Renewals new memberships sold at the door.

October 8 Public Sale 9:00 a.m. 7:00 p.m. October 9 Public Sale 9:00 a.m. 3:00 p.m. "Bargains by the Bag" Starts at Noon Some items for sale include: books, videos, audio tapes, computer components, an electronic typewriter odd 'n ends.

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