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Quentin Tarantino’s new film centers on a woman known only as The Bride (Uma Thurman), who awakens from a coma four years after she is nearly assassinated at her wedding party by the elite fighting force to which she once belonged. Once she’s up and about again, The Bride sets out on a mission of revenge against her former compatriots. On paper, Kill Bill: Volume I sounds dangerously close to Charlie’s Angels: There are many martial arts action sequences, all of the main characters are women and one of them...
...doctors initially thought. Four months and four brain operations later, Big is in a coma in a Bangkok hospital. The odds are that he will die?not from injuries sustained in the car crash but from an infection by a lethal fungus that blooms in Bangkok's klongs. The fungus entered Big's bloodstream when his heart stopped and his lungs filled with water. Undetected, it attacked blood vessels in Big's brain, causing a massive hemorrhage two weeks after the crash...
...arms, seeing me in agony, and said to me, 'Let's go, come, come, it is over ... '" he wrote in his autobiography. Instead, the French fireman, then 19, was wrenched back to life again and again by doctors, machines and good intentions. After nine months in a coma and 15 more as a mute, nearly blind quadriplegic (he wrote his memoir by using small movements of one thumb), Humbert pleaded with his mother - and President Jacques Chirac - to help him die. On Sept. 26, he got his wish, and France exhaled a sad sigh of relief. Now the nation...
Chaussoy had not known Humbert well. But as head of the intensive-care unit at his hospital in Berck-sur-Mer, he was in charge after Humbert slipped back into the coma. The morning after Marie Humbert's failed attempt, Chaussoy and his team discussed the case. "I had only one fear - that Vincent would find himself in his former condition," Chaussoy would later say. And so, with the backing of Humbert's other doctors and nurses, he shut off the artificial respirator the next day. Humbert gasped, as sometimes happens when respirators are removed, Chaussoy says. So the doctor...
...between the rousing power-pop of “Coma Girl” and “All in a Day” lilts the touching ballad “Long Shadow.” Though written for Johnny Cash, the lyrics easily fit Strummer’s own life when he concludes, “somewhere in my soul / there’s always rock and roll.” Like Cash, Strummer will live on forever in his rightful place as a rock and roll icon...