[ExI] A Small Request [was Re: Impressive book: Farewell toAlms]

[spike]

> Olga Bourlin
...
> 
> My husband remembers seeing a newsreel of how, during the 
> Reagan years, so many of the mentally ill were 
> de-institutionalized...

Olga did you mean the Lanterman-Petris-Short years?

http://www.claytoncramer.com/mental.htm

> reporter asked one of them: "What are you going to do now?  
> Where are you going?"  The answer came back:  "I'm going to 
> Hollywood ... to be a movie star!" Olga

Only some of them went there.  The particularly bad ones went to Washington
DC.

spike