But what kind of showman would I be if, beneath the obvious silliness, there did not lurk some underlying themes, abstract or otherwise? And the notion of being trapped on various levels is definitely one of them. My show ''Lypsinka! The Boxed Set'' is primarily designed to make people laugh and give an audience a chance to lose itself in a mad visual and aural pop culture/show-biz collage. But what about the traps we don't make for ourselves? I'm referring to the stereotyping traps that others would have us inhabit. Whether willfully or unconsciously, we probably do. In the movie, Marion Crane responds to Bates, ''Sometimes we deliberately step into those traps.'' With all due respect to Joseph Stefano, the screenwriter of ''Psycho,'' I feel I am quoting the dark wisdom of Alfred Hitchcock. My friends look at me askance when I quote a psychopathic film character. And for all of it, we never budge an inch.'' Thus spake Norman Bates. We scratch and claw, but only at the air. Clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. YOU know what I think? I think that we're all in our private traps.
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