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- June 07, 1993: Got a Problem? Get in Line
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jun. 07, 1993 The Incredible Shrinking President
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- PEOPLE, Page 73
- Got a Problem? Get in Line
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- <p>By GINIA BELLAFANTE
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- <p> Yes, Hillary, affordable mental-health care can be made available
- to all Americans. Just clone the ADVICE LADIES. For the past
- five years, this trio of gab-happy, Lycra-clad gal pals has
- spent each Saturday on the same Lower Manhattan corner doling
- out free counsel to angst-plagued passersby. Throughout their
- weekend career (they weekday in the ad world), the Advice Ladies
- have guided a New Yorker writer on love and makeup, helped a
- mounted cop understand his traffic-paranoid horse and listened
- earnestly to men who want simultaneous multiple marriages. "It's
- weird, but we get a lot of bigamy questions," says Amy Alkon
- (left). What the Ladies are really getting a lot of lately is
- attention. Robert DeNiro's Tribeca Films is developing a talk
- show around the lively street shrinks for fall, and book offers
- seem to be coming as frequently as odd clients. In the meantime,
- New York just keeps lining up. Why? "People used to solve their
- problems with beer and cheap sex," says Marlowe Minnick (center).
- "Now they're looking for more creative solutions."
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