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Hair News - May 2002 |
| Author: Karen Shelton |
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Date: May 2002 |
HOT FROM FOX...
James Cameron To Direct Season
Finale Of Dark Angel Airing on May 3, 2002
Starring Jessica Alba On FOX
Episode Marks Oscar Winner's TV Directing Debut
Jessica Alba is the long haired dark beauty who made
a name for herself on Dark Angel. The season finale will have a
very special director.
Academy Award-winning director James Cameron,
co-creator and executive producer of DARK ANGEL, will helm the
season finale of the series, airing Friday, May 3 (9:00 - 10:00 PM
ET/PT) on FOX. Production of the season finale episode will
begin later this month.
The DARK ANGEL episode marks Cameron's television
directing debut. His last feature film was 1997's worldwide
box office smash "Titanic" for which he personally won
three of the film's 11 Academy Award - Best Picture, Best Director
and Best Editing. The film currently holds both the domestic
and worldwide box office records, having grossed over $1.8 billion
at the global box office.
"We are thrilled that Jim Cameron will make his
television directorial debut on the season finale of DARK ANGEL,
said Gail Berman, President of Entertainment FOX "He
revolutionized feature filmmaking and we are fortunate that he is
brining his directing talents to FOX"
"I believe in our show, and think it is one of
the coolest things on network television. I have wanted to
direct an episode for sometime, so when our director for the season
finale dropped out just as I was completing photography on another
project, I seized the moment," said Cameron.
"I love our cast and am looking forward to working with them in
the mud and the blood and the beer. In any event, it will be
good discipline for me to direct one hour on a TV-size budget when
my last project was three hours for $200 million. Wish me
luck. This should be interesting."
DARK ANGEL is Cameron's first project for
television. It stars Jessica Alba as Max, a
genetically-enhanced human prototype who escaped Manticore, the
nefarious government laboratory that spawned her, and made a life
for herself in edgy, 21st century Seattle. While trying to
reunite with her Manticore "siblings" who escaped with her
but have scattered in the aftermath, she has teamed up with Logan
Cale (Michael Weatherly), an underground cyber-journalist, lending
her unique abilities to his crusade against corruption.
Currently on the run from evil pursuers looking to capture her -- or
worse -- she is desperately attempting to keep her genetic origins
and identify from falling into the wrong hands, while trying to find
her way in an often cruel world.
DARK ANGEL is produced by Cameron/Eglee Productions
in association with 20th Century Fox Television. Cameron,
Charles H. Eglee and Rene Echevarria are executive producers.
Rae Sanchini and Ken Biller are co-executive producers.
'THE X-FILES' CLOSES WITH SPECIAL TWO-HOUR
SERIES FINALE
MAY 19 ON FOX
Season Finales of THE SIMPSONS and MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE
Scheduled for Special Times that Evening
The search for the truth finally draws to a close after nine
seasons when the critically acclaimed drama THE X-FILES reaches its
conclusion with a climactic two-hour series finale Sunday, May 19
(8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
Leading off the night at special times are the season finales of
THE SIMPSONS (7:00-7:30 PM ET/PT), winding up its 13th season, and
MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE (7:30-8:00 PM ET/PT), completing its third
season.
In THE SIMPSONS season finale, "Poppa's Got a Brand New
Badge," when Homer accidentally causes an electrical blackout
in Springfield, all of the citizens begin looting the town's
businesses. Chief Wiggum is useless at restoring order, so Homer
takes the law into his own hands and becomes a policeman. Joe
Mantegna makes a guest voice appearance as Fat Tony.
Information on THE X-FILES and MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE finales is
TBA.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: FUTURAMA and KING OF THE HILL are
pre-empted this night.
Behavioral Study Of Trichotillomania
May, 2002
A Dutch study has found that behavior therapy can be
highly effective in reducing many, if not all, the symptoms of
trichotillomania which is an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
characterized by the irresistible urge to pull one's hair.
The Dutch study findings were based on a 12-week study that
compared the efficacy of behavioral therapy and the antidepressant
fluoxetine in treating the condition.
Forty three people suffering from trichotillomania were included in
the study. The researchers, from the University of Nijmegen,
assigned them to one of three groups. The first attended six
sessions of behavior therapy, the second were given 60 mg of
fluoxetine a day, and the third spent 12 weeks on a waiting list
with no treatment.
As part of the behavioral therapy treatment, the patients were asked
to write down how many hairs they had pulled and the total amount of
time they had spent hair pulling during every hour of therapy. They
were also told to put on gloves in high-risk situations. The therapy
was designed to improve self-control, teaching patients to control
unwanted behavior in their own environment.
Using the Massachusetts General Hospital Hairpulling Scale as a
reference, the team found that patients who received behavioral
therapy showed a greater reduction in symptoms of trichotillomania
than patients in the fluoxetine and waiting-list groups.
'When the hair loss was rated by others using videotapes, patients
who had undergone behavioral therapy were found to have improved
significantly,' the researchers said.
Interestingly, patients who were in the 'waiting-list' group, and
who received no treatment, also showed a significant reduction in
hair-pulling symptoms. The researchers believe that this finding
could be due to 'expectancy effects', as the patients had been
promised treatment after 12 weeks.
In contrast, fluoxetine was found to be ineffective in reducing the
symptoms of trichotillomania.
'The challenge for the future is to further refine this treatment to
obtain long-term improvement,' they conclude.
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