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Article: `THE BRADSHAW DIFFERENCE' IN TALK SHOWS: `NO NUTS AND SLUTS'.(Television)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- October 22, 1996
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Put someone who resembles Timothy Leary in an Oprah-like setting, have him dispense guidance like radio shrink Dr. Laura, televise it from Houston and you get some idea of the ``The Bradshaw Difference.''
While the show may have a familiar look, with a host wandering through the audience and a procession of guests growing on the stage with each segment, the ``difference'' is John Bradshaw, says the best-selling author, lecturer and therapist, himself a frequent guest on the Oprah-and-Sally circuit.
``America says they want this, they want positive television,'' Bradshaw says. ``They don't want the sleaze. They don't want revictimizing, a voyeuristic ...