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FIRST ya read it in People Magazine, THEN ya saw it on your local TV stations, SOON there'll be a mini-series, and THEN there's gonna be a movie! Liz Taylor will host a star-filled benefit, with Christopher Reeves making a guest appearance AND he'll have a cameo part in the movie. WAIT! THERE'S MORE! Tom Hanks will play Robin Elliott and Dennis Rodman will play Janet Reno. The role of Mother Teresa is still being cast, but rumor has it that popular contenders are Camilla Flintermann, Judith Richards, and Janet Patterson. (tho there's some question regarding the suitability of Ms. Patterson for this role, as it HAS been suggested that no doubt she'd spend a lotta time poking holes in puffed up Cyberspace snake-oil-salesmen-types, and debunking urban legends while tweaking the respective tails of assorted sleeping tigers (GO JANET, GO!) <giggle> Finally plans are in the offing to create a "Parkinson's Sitcom," which will start production as soon as a cure is announced (don't hold your breath for THIS one, folks!) News at 11.... Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Parkinson's Disease Foundation <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> Date: Monday, January 04, 1999 1:35 PM Subject: People Strikes Again ... >ListFriends: > >Fresh off their tour de ofrce with last month's article on Michael J. Fox and >Parkinspon's disease, People magazine has struck again in the edition now on >the stands (January 11) with a three-page "Q and A" on Parkinson's disease, >featuring Dr. Stanley Fahn, Houston Merritt professor of neurology at Columbia >University and (yes, we're proud!) scientific director of the Parkinson's >Disease Foundation. > >It's a compact, useful little piece, with good celeb pix. It wil be helpful >both educationally (to a general People readership which doesn't know much >about Parkinson's) and in public relations terms (that is, telling the world >about the importance of a medical condition that most people were not aware of >until quite recently). > >It's not at all "downbeat" (would be out of character with the magazine if it >were!) but at the same time I do believe that it will NOT offend those of our >ListServ members who feel that much of the recent coverage of PD has been just >a bit too cheery -- almost as if PD were not a serious business. I hope I'm >right. > >For those who are interested, the idea for the piece came right out of the >earlier one (on Fox). The people at People got so much response from the >earlier article that they decided to run this as a follow-up for those folks >who wanted to know more about the disease. Their Chicago bureau called Judy >Rosner at the UPF ... Judy called me ... and Dr. Fahn said he would be >available. > >Does any one else have an impression that the Parkinson's community is on a >bit of a roll here? Happy New Year, everyone! > >robin elliott, exec dir, parkinson's disease foundation > >ps i apologize for not putting this posting out earlier; on new year's eve, i >was told they were holding the piece for two weeks. yeah, right! >