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Need a therapist?

Maybe a laugh

would do instead.

Meet the star

of the animated

Q: Do you believe your devotion to
your pets gives you a special bond
with children?

series and cartoon

strip, Dr. Katz:

A: Perhaps. I don't have children. My
dogs are my children, and they're
always children. It's part of their
charm that they need me all the time.
I just love them for company. Also,
dogs are very patient. Unlike children
who demand to be taken to
Disneyland or play baseball, dogs are
happy to sit under a drawing table and
wait until I get done.

Professional Therapist.

A Night of Comedy

in West Bloomfield

to benefit the

Q: Do you get a lot of mail from
children, and, if so, are there com-
mon threads to their comments or
questions?

Anti-Defamation League

Featuring Emmy Winning Comedian

A: I get very personal letters about
very personal problems. The fact that
they trust me through my books pleas-
es me, but it makes me sad to think
parents are losing out on talking about
matters that are of great interest to
children. If they could discuss the
problems with their parents, they
wouldn't write them to a perfectly
- strange man.
Probably the most common subject
is death. They don't understand it.
Their images of death are from my
books. I believe that children think of
death all the time. Rather than
deceive them and make them believe
it doesn't exist, it's better to open up
the subject.

Q: What are yourpurrent projects?

A: I'm finishing [sets for] another
opera, Hansel and Gretel. It will open
on Oct. 24 in Houston. Hansel and
Gretel is the primo opera on the suf-
fering of children and the betrayal of
children by their parents. I've been
working on it for six years, so I'm
going to be happy to see that it's done.
The book I'm working on I can't
discuss.
I'm very involved with The Night
Kitchen productions, but it's very hard
to get them off the ground because of
costs. To bring live theater to children
with subject matter that has the
volatility and truthfulness of what I
think is in my books is what I'd like to
do with live theater. I'm doing a ballet
version of Where the Wild Things Are.
The composer, Randy Woolf, is from
Detroit. 0

JONATHAN KATZ

Thursday, October 30, 1997 at 7:00 p.m.

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