CHRISTOPHER LANE is associate professor of English at Emory University. He is the author of "The Ruling Passion: British Colonial Allegory and the Paradox of Homosexual Desire."
For most of us, the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California, has been a mysterious, almost mythical place where the rich and famous went to be cured. Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minelli, Tony Curtis, Mary Tyler Moore, and Robert Mitchum are only a few o...[SEE MORE]