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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