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There are many people in Hollywood whose work I grew up watching, many of whom turned me in the direction of loving movies and TV. One was Meryl Streep, another was Leonardo DiCaprio, and the last was Angelina Jolie. I grew up loving Angelina Jolie in all her films, thinking that she was one of the best actresses around. And, to this day, I still do, with her having taken on even more roles, from playing the iconic villain
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However, thereâs plenty more coming up for this star of the cinema. From the new Marvel enterprise called
When my late husband David Israel was diagnosed with ALS in 2010, I couldn’t imagine how I’d ever cope. Someone in his neurologist’s office handed me a manual called the “ALS Caregivers Guide.” There were sections for “Drooling,” “Choking,” and “Feeding Tubes.” The last one was “Saying Goodbye.”
“How will I possibly handle this?” I asked a friend.
“Call Ron Hoffman!” she said.
I waited for him in a café south of Boston. A long-haired guy in jeans showed up, speaking in a Southern twang. I remembered that moment when, years later, I asked a man whose father had ALS if he’d ever heard of Ron Hoffman. “You mean the hippie ALS guy?” he said.
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Voices welcomes Alzheimer s expert
Neuroscientist and author Lisa Genova describes the experience as incredibly rewarding, surreal, amazing.
Not everybody s book is turned into a movie, and not every lead character in a movie is an Academy Award winner.
Genova s Still Alice was turned into a movie starring Julianne Moore as a linguistics professor who deals with early-onset Alzheimer s disease, and Moore won the 2015 Oscar for best actress. I m forever grateful to everyone involved for dedicating their extraordinary talents and hard work to creating this film, Genova said. It profoundly expanded the global conversation about Alzheimer s and helped everyone living with Alzheimer s feel seen and heard human. That s no small thing.