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After his stroke in 1996, KIRK DOUGLAS figured his acting career was over. "I thought unless silent films come back, I won't be in movies again," the 83-year-old actor says. Next month he will appear in the new film Diamonds. "Originally, my character suffered from Alzheimer's," he reports, "but I made some suggestions, and now I play a man recovering from a stroke." Douglas' influence also extended to casting: "I told Lauren Bacall there was a perfect part for her," he recalls. "When I said she'd play the madam of a whorehouse, she uttered some...
...midst of his otherwise serious biography, Morris caused an uproar over the standards of factual and historical accuracy in the literary world while asserting his belief in the artistic merit of biography. Although perhaps compromising the historical integrity of the book, Morris' use of fictional elements is a deft stroke used to illustrate the workings of his subject's mind...
...film's heart is the forced relationship between two dramatically different residents of the same New York apartment complex. Robert De Niro is Walt Koontz, a bigoted former cop, while Philip Seymour Hoffman is Rusty, a drag queen desperate for a sex change. When Walt suffers a stroke while trying to foil a robbery, he reluctantly turns to Rusty for singing lessons as therapy. Needless to say, the one-time enemies learn there's more to each other than meets...
...stroke of midnight yesterday morning, candidates for the presidency and vice presidency of the Undergraduate Council officially began their feverish pitches for office. The posters--and the endorsements--are already flying...
CLINK! Here's something to toast on New Year's: a major study shows that besides warding off heart disease, moderate amounts of alcohol may reduce the risk of stroke. The likelihood of suffering a stroke dropped 20% in men who drank anywhere from one glass a week to one glass a day. Any kind of alcohol works, but don't go overboard. Excessive booze--more than a few drinks a day--raises blood pressure, which dramatically heightens your risk of stroke...