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Dear List-family, Just a few comments for us "insiders" about the brand-new, 26-minute, videotaped interview about my life as a PWP, " The Challenge of Young Parkinson's Disease," just released on July 14, 1999. First, THANKS to List-member Barb Mallut, for her quickness! Her candid review was completed just 2 hours after I had called her this past evening, to find out if she had even received the video in the U.S. mail. She had already gone to work, having received it earlier in the day, and, having already watched the film through twice on her v.c.r. by that point in the evening. AT work, despite battling PD herself (Barb is a Younger-Onset PWP). Secondly, about the review. Barb has had the courage, and the brilliance, to appear on an episode of the Leeza show devoted to Parkinson's Disease, this past winter. Barb had found a way to slip through the wall that usually keeps folks like PWP's and their caregivers way off in audience-land. Barb found a way, undoubtedly with the vocal support of her many friends in greater Los Angeles, to get two younger married PWP's and their spouses (one PWP was a woman, one a man), plus herself, as guests on ONE show. That was an amazing achievement, to have championed FIVE of us PWP's and CG's to appear all-at-once on parts of a MAJOR, nationally seen, afternoon talk show. I hope as many of you as possible will find "The Challenge of Young Parkinson's Disease" worth COMMENTING on, whether to the List, to you local newpaper's film editor, to your librarian, to your radio, TV or other announcer, to your club's bandleader, to your neurologist, or even to your aspiring Hollywood or Manhattan agent! Again, "The Challenge of Young Parkinson's Disease" is available directly through me, by writing me at 9 Range St. Portland, Maine 04103 USA. Cost is $13.00 per videotape. Finally, a hopeful development. The videotape has been requested by Richard Kelly, now apparently a top-level assistant to Assignment Editor Todd Ciganek, at Fox-TV's New York City news desk. Thank you, Virginia's Hilary Blue and Texan Nina Brown - - Hilary, for initial telephone work, and Nina, for your moving , persuasive writing and fax-ing, as evidenced in our List's current post from you, "FRUSTRATED!", which has been CENTRAL in the developing interest in my filmed interview going NATIONWIDE by the folks at Fox. Mr. Ciganek told me on Thursday that we List-people ought to telephone our LOCAL FOX TV AFFILIATES, and urge them to request nationwide broadcast, by calling Fox at 212 301 3000. Cordially Yours (as best as I can manage at 5:20 AM - I awakened just 55 minutes ago for my pre-dawn medicines), Ivan Suzman 49 current age/ 39 diagnosis/ 36 appearance of symptoms/ ? age of onset