around them functions as supporting cast, picking up their
cues, their entrances and exits, from the crazymaker’s
(crazy) whims.
Some of the most profoundly destructive crazymakers I
have ever encountered are themselves famous artists. They
are the kind of artists that give the rest of us bad names.
Often larger than life, they acquire that status by feeding on
the life energies of those around them. For this reason, many
of the most crazy artists in America are found surrounded
by a cadre of supporters as talented as they are but
determined to subvert their own talent in the service of the
Crazymaking King.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself
and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
ELISABETH
KÜBLER-ROSSI am thinking of a movie set I visited several years ago.
The filmmaker was one of the giants of American cinema.
His stature was unmistakable, and so was his identity as a
crazymaker. Given that all filmmaking is demanding, his
sets are far more so: longer hours; long bouts of paranoia;
intrigue and internecine politics. Amid rumors that the set
was bugged, this Crazymaker King addressed his actors
over a loudspeaker system while he, like the Wizard of Oz,
secreted himself away in a large and luxuriously equipped