Striving4Zen

DONNA McKECHNIE, Tony-winning star of "A Chorus Line," is out with her Simon & Schuster bio "Time Steps: My Musical Comedy Life." But no lightweight fluff, this. It's a heavy-duty saga of her own emotional and physical survival.
"I left show business for nine years," she told me. "I'd been stricken with rheumatoid arthritis. So ill that all I really needed to do was survive. They said I'd never walk again let alone dance. Only now can I talk about it, and that's why I wrote this.
"I'm no medical expert, but medicine wasn't helping, nor was psychiatry, for my clinical depression, so I had to educate myself. I found a New Jersey doctor who had a vitamin theory. He prescribed a cleansing diet - oats, brown rice, chicken, fish, all green veggies, no tomatoes or citrus because my system's acid had to neutralize to regain its alkali balance - plus suitable exercise like stretching, yoga, nothing strenuous. He said in three weeks the pain will subside, six weeks I'll be able to walk, one year I'll actually dance again. And that happened. My book tells it all in detail.
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