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...Coma, Cook...
...Daddy was playing another of his mysterious, macabre jokes last week-or so it seemed. From Uganda came reports that President for Life Idi Amin Dada had gone into a coma following surgery-at the hands of a Soviet doctor-for an undisclosed ailment. "It looks serious," said an aide. But as with so many other dramatic moments in Amin's life, there was less here than met the eye. The operation, it turned out, apparently lasted all of three minutes and was for the removal of a swelling on the lower part of his neck. At week...
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...Coma, Cook...
Performing with suspended, comatose bodies is a tough assignment for any actress. No wonder Genevieve Bujold read the script of Coma, based on Robin Cook's bestselling chiller, and said, "Oh, my God, I don't know about this!" But her doctor-writer friend Michael Crichton (The Andromeda Strain), author of the screenplay and the director, cajoled her into accepting the part. Bujold plays a surgical resident in a large Boston hospital who wonders why certain patients never regain consciousness after routine operations-and unravels a diabolical traffic in human organs. To inject as much realism as possible...