Spending Spree Prozac 18/12/1996 Texas Woman Goes on Spending Spree: Feels Lack of Guilt for Spending So Much
 
 Summary:<br><br><div><font size="3">Paragraphs 6 &amp; 7 read:&nbsp; &quot;``<strong>I suggested she could go of<u>f Prozac, b</u>ut she doesn&#39;t want to.&#39;&#39;<br /><br />``She says,&#39;&#39; (here&#39;s the BIG discovery) `<u>`when she takes it, she doesn&#39;t feel guilty about spending a lot of money shopping.&#39;&#39;<br /><br /><br /></u></strong>_______________________________________________________________________________________________<br />Does shopping go better with <strong>Prozac</strong>? <br />San Antonio Express-News<br />December 18, 1996<br />Author: Susan Yerkes <br />Estimated printed pages: 2 <br /><br /><br />I may have latched onto the secret of the credit crunch at an innocent Christmas lunch at Paesano&#39;s.<br /><br />One member of our tight-knit group and his wife had a family crisis recently. (I&#39;ll call them George and Sally , not their real names). <br /><br />Their son had big problems two years back. Sally was so devastated, she sought professional therapy and began taking <strong>Prozac</strong>. It helped.<br /><br />At lunch George announced happily that their son is back to normal, and doing fine.<br /><br />``Sally said goodbye to her therapist,&#39;&#39; George said.<br /><br />``I suggested she could go off <strong>Prozac</strong>, but she doesn&#39;t want to.&#39;&#39;<br /><br />``She says,&#39;&#39; (here&#39;s the BIG discovery) ``when she takes it, she doesn&#39;t feel guilty about spending a lot of money shopping.&#39;&#39;<br /><br />Next Christmas, look for introductory <strong>Prozac</strong>-paks in the mail with free credit cards . . . and stand back at the mall!<br /><br />Familiar places<br /><br />Big news from Hollywood - Jim Robinson , S.A.-born director of the new film ``Still Breathing&#39;&#39; with the breathtaking Brendan Fraser and Joanna Going , called to say it hit big in Tinseltown.<br /><br />After the film&#39;s acquisition premiere last Wednesday, Robinson immediately sold Euro-rights. This week, he said he&#39;s entertaining offers from several major studios.<br /><br />One of the major elements in the movie&#39;s appeal is the work of Jim&#39;s wife, Denice Pizzini , an eighth-generation S.A. gal whose art direction in ``Like Water for Chocolate&#39;&#39; won international awards.<br /><br />Another is the Jim Cullum Jazz Band, with a prominent role in a party scene playing brilliant bassist Don Mopsick &#39;s original tune ``Fantasy.&#39;&#39;<br /><br />Music maven Mopsick tells me that another tune in the show, ``Alberta,&#39;&#39; is an oldie sung by the late Lloyd Glen , an S.A. piano player and arranger from the &#39;30s and &#39;40s.<br /><br />Get back, Hollywood! S.A. is hot!<br /><br />Gruene Christmas<br /><br />Christmas Day, John Travolta &#39;s much-ballyhooed new movie `` Michael &#39;&#39; opens in S.A.<br /><br />Meanwhile, movie-goers are getting a Gruene Christmas in the previews. About half the preview scenes were <strong>shot</strong> last March in Pat Molak &#39;s historic Gruene Hall.<br /><br />``We&#39;re really excited that one of the world&#39;s most famous dancers graces Gruene Hall&#39;s old dance floor,&#39;&#39; Molak says.<br /><br />Gruene is a far cry from Grease. Check it out.<br /><br />Bingle jells?<br /><br />At a sumptuous feast before the fabulous ``Holiday Saxes&#39;&#39; at the Guadalupe Theater Sunday night, bilingual education expert Sulema Sanchez described a linguistic contortion even her training couldn&#39;t unscramble.<br /><br />``I was in Galveston, and a taxi driver told me to be sure to see Dixon On A String,&#39;&#39; she said.<br /><br />``I kept asking about it, and somebody finally told me he meant Galveston&#39;s wonderful holiday fest, `Dickens on the Strand.&#39;&#39;<br /><br />Dixon on a String has a nice ring, though, doesn&#39;t it? <br />Section:&nbsp; S.A. Life<br />Page:&nbsp; 1G<br />Copyright 1996, 1997 San Antonio Express-News<br />Record Number:&nbsp; SAEN178306 <br /><br />OpenURL Article Bookmark (right click, and copy the link location):<br /><a href="http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&amp;rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:SANB&amp;rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&amp;rft_dat=0EB03DA34825C699&amp;svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated4&amp;req_dat=0FC00B934DD580D0">Does shopping go better with Prozac?<br /></a></font></div> 
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