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...even then, when family and friends have suffered the heartbreaking deterioration of a loved one, it is still impossible to name the slow killer with absolute certainty. Only after the patient has died and an autopsy is done can the core of the brain be examined for the telltale dead nerve cells and tangled fibers that denote Alzheimer's disease, the senile dementia now recognized as the nation's fourth largest killer...
Defense lawyers say the pad contains no such recipe for killing but just "writing on a piece of paper." They say Levin was facing grand-theft charges for receiving stolen goods, and is probably not dead at all. Says Defense Attorney Arthur Barens: "Mr. Levin has ample reason to absent himself from the proceedings...
...thought I'd be dead before I was 30. Turning 40 stunned me. Fifty is a major miracle, and I think I may even make 70." So say other men who have just rounded the half-century mark, but Dennis Hopper is neither joking nor exaggerating. He is telling the sober truth. For a man whose name was once synonymous with drugs and booze to have survived to the age of 50 -- and have the audacity even to contemplate trying for the standard threescore and ten -- is no minor accomplishment. It is a megamiracle worthy of a Hollywood movie...
Though he had been drinking heavily and taking drugs for years, in the '70s he became an addict. "Some of the folks alongside me went Establishment or dropped dead. I was more fortunate. I went insane. I became paranoid and schizophrenic. I heard voices and was convinced that friends were being murdered in the next room. Since I was isolated, living in Taos, no one told me any different." In Mexico to make a movie in 1983, he panicked, tore off his clothes and, after walking naked through the countryside, was arrested and sent back to the U.S. "Dennis tapped...
...Ellen conceives of her story as a tribute to "my poor dear, dead dad," and that is pretty much what she provides. Billy Henshaw inherits sole responsibility for his young daughter after his wife and son die during the influenza epidemic that swept through Britain in World War I. "My dad always called himself not a pianist but a pianoplayer," Ellen recalls. "Pianoplayer gives you the idea of him and the instrument being like all one thing, jammed together." Billy makes his way by accompanying the silent films at a Manchester movie house during the mid-1920s. Unfortunately, he possesses...