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Among the highlights of the workshop was a discussion with Seymour Cassel. In his energetic, irreverent manner, Cassel, who most recently appeared in "Indecent Proposal" (1993), spoke about acting, film, his experiences working with director John Cassavetes and his starring role in Rockwell's new film...
...film exposure given by Eastman Kodak. The Boston premiere of "In the Soup" at Coolidge Corner's antique theatre closed the festivites. As the antic story of an aspiring independent filmmaker driven to crime to fund his work, Rockwell's film proved a fitting close to a work-shop. Cassel, Rockwell, and his wife, actress Jennifer Beals, afterwards answered questions on the film, made on a minuscule budget of $800,000. Rockwell, a Harvard Square native, belongs to a rare species of directors who are independent by choice; he has been offered studio deals, but has chosen to remain...
From the start, it seemed like a classic case of "grandpa dumping." Some stressed-out family member, experts conjectured, had suddenly broken under the pressure of caring for a confused and ailing spouse or parent. "It's shocking and terrible," says University of Chicago geriatrician Dr. Christine Cassel, "but it doesn't surprise me at all. The families of Alzheimer's patients sometimes just give up in despair." Such families have been known to drop their elderly charges off at hospital emergency rooms and then disappear. "It happens here probably once a month," says University of Chicago emergency- room physician...
...comes as something of a jolt to be told by the experts that human beings have taken life about as far as it can go. That is the sobering conclusion of a report in Science magazine last week by demographer S. Jay Olshansky and gerontologist Christine Cassel of the University of Chicago and biostatistician Bruce Carnes of Argonne National Laboratory. Barring an unexpected breakthrough in basic science that would forestall the aging process, they say, the era of rapid increases in human longevity has come to an end -- at least in developed countries. Even if science could eliminate heart disease...
...were moving back and forth from pictures to actual buildings. We had to extrapolate the building and come up with a design. It was a very difficult feat," says Martha Cassel, a second year GSD student who worked with Burns. "It was an unusual combination of art history and studio work," she says...