34 | NOVEMBER 26 • 2020 

MORRIS ON LEARY; SCHIFF 
BATTLES COVID-19 ON TV 
AND IN REAL LIFE
The documentary My 
Psychedelic Love Story 
begins streaming on 
Showtime on Sunday, Nov. 
29 (9 p.m.). In the mid-’60s, 
Dr. Timothy Leary became 
what many called “the high 
priest of LSD.” He was a clin-
ical psychologist at Harvard 
when he began doing 
LSD experiments. Fired by 
Harvard in 1962, he con-
tinued his fervent pro-LSD 
advocacy and became a 
major media figure. In 1968, 
he was arrested on various 
charges and got a 10-year 
jail sentence. A radical group 
broke him out of jail, but he 
was recaptured in 1972. In 
prison, he turned FBI inform-

er and he got paroled early 
in 1976. 
The film focuses on his 
time on the run with Joanna 
Harcourt-Smith, who is inter-
viewed. Was she a CIA plant 
or just a rich young woman 
in love? The film was direct-
ed by Errol Morris, 74, who 
always makes good films 
(The Thin Blue Line and The 
Fog of War). Fun fact: Michael 
Horowitz, 82, the father of 
Winona (Horowitz) Ryder, 49, 
worked for a time as Leary’s 
archivist. Leary was Winona’s 
informal godfather. 
As I write this, veteran 
character actor Richard 
Schiff, 65, is in the 
hospital battling 
COVID-19. Reports 
say his condition 
is improving. Schiff 
co-starred on The 
West Wing (Toby 
Ziegler, White 
House Communications 
Director) and co-stars 

on The Good Doctor (Dr. 
Glassman). His (real-life) 
wife, actress Sheila Kelley, 
who plays his wife on The 
Good Doctor, has revealed 
that she has COVID-19, too, 
as does their son. 
Ironically, the new season 
of The Good Doctor began 
with two episodes about 
the impact of COVID-19 on 
the hospital that Glassman 
once headed up. These 
episodes found Glassman 
stewing because he couldn’t 
leave his house because of 
his age and because he’s a 
cancer survivor. (The 2020 
“winter season” of Doctor 
is only five episodes. All 
episodes were/will be first 
shown on ABC on Monday, 
at 10 p.m. Catch-up on-de-
mand or on Hulu).
The third Doctor episode 
(Nov. 16) began with a brief 
statement that this episode 
(and ones following) posits 
a world in which COVID-19 

has been beat. The episode 
drama begins with a lot of 
doctors applying for six pres-
tigious resident positions. Dr. 
Asher Wolke is ultimately 
selected. We see him first in 
an excerpt from his residen-
cy interview. He says that he 
grew up in a Hasidic com-
munity, the son of a rabbi. 
But he left when he was 18. 
He had decided he didn’t 
believe in God and he knew 
he was gay. Noah Galvin, 
26, plays Wolke. 
Galvin, whose mother is 
Jewish, grew-up exposed 
to both Judaism and 
Christianity, but identifies as 
Jewish as an adult. In 2017, 
he replaced Ben Platt in the 
title role in the hit Broadway 
musical Dear Evan Hansen. 
Last May, he and Platt 
announced they were a 
couple. On Nov. 15, Platt, 
27, revealed he contracted 
COVID-19 last March, but has 
completely recovered. 

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