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In the course of her career as a psychotherapist, Shelley De Angelus counseled schizophrenics, patients with multiple personality disorder, and garden-variety neurotics.

Long exposure to people with inflated expectations, economy-size fantasies and delusions of grandeur serves her well in her current slot as the office manager of Mail Mann, Inc., a Los Angeles-based fan-mail and fan-club service. Daily, she or her colleague Marie Kehoe stops at the post office to pick up white plastic bins of letters addressed to such clients as Anna Paquin, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Gere, Reese Witherspoon, Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Bacon, Joe Cocker and Samuel L. Jackson, as well as some cast members of the series Two and a Half Men, 30 Rock and Brothers & Sisters.

They've got mail, thousands of missives a week -- from fans who want to express approval/disapproval of their idols' political stands, religious beliefs, recent headline-making behavior, taste in mates or taste in movie roles. From fans who want to express sympathy or support when there's been a death in the celeb's family. From straitened fans seeking cash (five- and six-figure requests are not uncommon) and from fans seeking a far more precious commodity: a date for the high-school prom.

What surprises me is the intensity of the expectations, said Ms. De Angelus in a recent phone interview. It's one thing when a 14-year-old writes 'take me to the prom.' But when a mother writes saying 'take my daughter to the prom,' you have to wonder.

She wonders equally about the woman who keeps those cards and letters coming for Chad Michael Murray, star of the series One Tree Hill. This fan seems to see him as her best friend, said Ms. De Angelus. I find it astonishing seeing that she has written many times a week for years and has never gotten a response. Her letters are incredibly boring, she added.

The requests contained in such notes may vary, but the opening salvo and closing line are strikingly similar. Everyone tends to start with 'I am your number one fan,' Ms. De Angelus said. And all the letters end with 'please send a picture.==Career As A Psychotherapist== In the course of her career as a psychotherapist, Shelley De Angelus counseled schizophrenics, patients with multiple personality disorder, and garden-variety neurotics.

Long exposure to people with inflated expectations, economy-size fantasies and delusions of grandeur serves her well in her current slot as the office manager of Mail Mann, Inc., a Los Angeles-based fan-mail and fan-club service. Daily, she or her colleague Marie Kehoe stops at the post office to pick up white plastic bins of letters addressed to such clients as Anna Paquin, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Gere, Reese Witherspoon, Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Bacon, Joe Cocker and Samuel L. Jackson, as well as some cast members of the series Two and a Half Men, 30 Rock and Brothers & Sisters.

They've got mail, thousands of missives a week -- from fans who want to express approval/disapproval of their idols' political stands, religious beliefs, recent headline-making behavior, taste in mates or taste in movie roles. From fans who want to express sympathy or support when there's been a death in the celeb's family. From straitened fans seeking cash (five- and six-figure requests are not uncommon) and from fans seeking a far more precious commodity: a date for the high-school prom.

What surprises me is the intensity of the expectations, said Ms. De Angelus in a recent phone interview. It's one thing when a 14-year-old writes 'take me to the prom.' But when a mother writes saying 'take my daughter to the prom,' you have to wonder.

She wonders equally about the woman who keeps those cards and letters coming for Chad Michael Murray, star of the series One Tree Hill. This fan seems to see him as her best friend, said Ms. De Angelus. I find it astonishing seeing that she has written many times a week for years and has never gotten a response. Her letters are incredibly boring, she added.

The requests contained in such notes may vary, but the opening salvo and closing line are strikingly similar. Everyone tends to start with 'I am your number one fan,' Ms. De Angelus said. And all the letters end with 'please send a picture.==Career As A Psychotherapist== In the course of her career as a psychotherapist, Shelley De Angelus counseled schizophrenics, patients with multiple personality disorder, and garden-variety neurotics.

Long exposure to people with inflated expectations, economy-size fantasies and delusions of grandeur serves her well in her current slot as the office manager of Mail Mann, Inc., a Los Angeles-based fan-mail and fan-club service. Daily, she or her colleague Marie Kehoe stops at the post office to pick up white plastic bins of letters addressed to such clients as Anna Paquin, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Gere, Reese Witherspoon, Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Bacon, Joe Cocker and Samuel L. Jackson, as well as some cast members of the series Two and a Half Men, 30 Rock and Brothers & Sisters.

They've got mail, thousands of missives a week -- from fans who want to express approval/disapproval of their idols' political stands, religious beliefs, recent headline-making behavior, taste in mates or taste in movie roles. From fans who want to express sympathy or support when there's been a death in the celeb's family. From straitened fans seeking cash (five- and six-figure requests are not uncommon) and from fans seeking a far more precious commodity: a date for the high-school prom.

What surprises me is the intensity of the expectations, said Ms. De Angelus in a recent phone interview. It's one thing when a 14-year-old writes 'take me to the prom.' But when a mother writes saying 'take my daughter to the prom,' you have to wonder.

She wonders equally about the woman who keeps those cards and letters coming for Chad Michael Murray, star of the series One Tree Hill. This fan seems to see him as her best friend, said Ms. De Angelus. I find it astonishing seeing that she has written many times a week for years and has never gotten a response. Her letters are incredibly boring, she added.

The requests contained in such notes may vary, but the opening salvo and closing line are strikingly similar. Everyone tends to start with 'I am your number one fan,' Ms. De Angelus said. And all the letters end with 'please send a picture.==Career As A Psychotherapist== Mail Mann is one of a small handful of companies that has taken over a job once handled solely by movie studios. Years ago, that mail was seen as a very important gauge of an actor's popularity, said veteran publicist Lee Solters. Now it's all about the box office: You're bankable or you're not bankable.

Named for its founder, Mackie Mann, a child actor who grew up to be a producer of TV commercials, Mail Mann was launched 25 years ago. A friend who was a talent agent asked me if I knew anyone who did fan mail, recalled Ms. Mann. She had a client, Peter Reckell, who's on 'Days of Our Lives.' At the time he was very big, a teen heartthrob, and I said I'd look into it. I started looking and I couldn't find anyone -- and I thought, hmmm.

She began Mail Mann in her garage, handling Mr. Reckell's correspondence, and soon signed up David Hasselhoff, then the star of the series Knight Rider. Ms. Mann's husband, a dolly grip, was very helpful with client recruitment. When he went on location, he would talk to stars about my business, she said. I got a lot of people that way.