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by silverscreenselect » Tue Jun 25, 2024 12:36 pm
I've been more attuned to stories like this recently:
Gena Rowlands, star of ‘The Notebook,’ is living with Alzheimer’s
Gena Rowlands has Alzheimer’s, her son, director Nick Cassavetes has revealed. Cassavetes shared the news in a conversation with Entertainment Weekly about the 20th anniversary of their film, “The Notebook.”
Rowlands, an acclaimed two-time Oscar-nominated actress with more than 100 film and television credits, was directed by her son in “The Notebook” in which she played the older version of the lead character, Allie, as she was living with Alzheimer’s in the story. “I got my mom to play older Allie, and we spent a lot of time talking about Alzheimer’s and wanting to be authentic with it, and now, for the last five years, she’s had Alzheimer’s,” Cassavetes told the publication. “She’s in full dementia. And it’s so crazy — we lived it, she acted it, and now it’s on us.”
Rowlands’ own mother also struggled with the disease. “This last one — The Notebook, based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks — was particularly hard because I play a character who has Alzheimer’s,” Rowlands told O magazine in 2004. “I went through that with my mother, and if Nick hadn’t directed the film, I don’t think I would have gone for it — it’s just too hard. It was a tough but wonderful movie.”
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tlynn78
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by tlynn78 » Tue Jun 25, 2024 3:53 pm
The news stories about Shelly Duvall recently making the rounds are very sad, as well.
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jarnon
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by jarnon » Thu Aug 15, 2024 9:14 am
Sadly, Gena Rowlands passed away on Wednesday at age 94.
She was amazing in “The Notebook.”
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by jarnon » Thu Aug 15, 2024 9:30 am
The previous day, Wallace Amos Jr., baker of Famous Amos cookies, died of dementia at age 88.
Overall, over 450,000 Americans died from dementia in 2020, up from 150,000 in 1999.
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by Pastor Fireball » Thu Aug 15, 2024 12:56 pm
Sadly, Alzheimer's disease also claimed the life of rock star Greg Kihn, whose hit song "Jeopardy" was famously parodied by Weird Al. Kihn passed away on Tuesday at age 75, but his death wasn't announced until today.
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by SportsFan68 » Thu Aug 15, 2024 3:04 pm
Very sad -- she was brilliant.
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by jarnon » Fri Aug 16, 2024 7:08 pm
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