She answers the knock at the door, smiles exquisitely, floats through the afternoon light of her Brentwood home with casual grace.
It’s another full day for Hedda Bolgar, who sees patients four days a week, teaches on the fifth day, drives a Prius, is planning a trip to New Zealand, and needs to get through this interview before 5 p.m., when her personal trainer arrives.
She turned 99 last month.
“I was put on this Earth to accomplish certain things,” says Bolgar, a psychologist and psychoanalyst. “I’m so far behind, I can never die.”
“And, partly because she’s been a vegetarian for 85 years, she gets an upset stomach thinking about the NRA poster girl on the GOP presidential ticket.”
Ah, the subliminal messages – from the LAT and a woman who still calls Sigmund Fraud (sic) ‘the master’. Well, at 99 who could learn new lessons? Only Abraham, I suppose. And we *know what ‘the master’ thought about that stuff (universal neurosis etc).