Louise Smoczynski is enjoying a quiet retirement in Madison, Wis., but she and her friends are starting to have health problems. Ken Diller is a biomedical…
dismaying that the word is completely common in our life. it s no surprise that someone has cancer. someone else has cancer. we just did a story on the perception coming up, with joe beth williams plays my mother and she has cancer. so i was doing scenes about my mother having cancer, which is how my mom died. it makes you angry and it s underrated, too. how do we get to a point, maybe our kids will get to a point where they talk about it like we talk about polio. who tells you that your tv character mom was going to have cancer. who breaks the news? the creator of the show, ken diller. i remember every year on will and grace the director would tell the writers don t be afraid to paint your seselves into a