Word: dementia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Except of course that Jim Carey is a big psycho, a role in which he is all too convincing. Matthew Broderick does a fine if not spectacular job as the lone island of sanity in Carey's ocean of dementia, but Carey's seduction to the dark side of the force does not prove terribly moving. His portrayal of a character split between "Fatal Attraction" and "The Three Stooges" does not pull convincingly one way or another. Jim Carey does not, nor will he likely ever, move us to tears, and unfortunately as the Cable Guy he barely moves...
...arthritic knees. More alarming, his mind is failing, and his doctors do not believe he will ever recover. "His behavior has been stubborn, bizarre and unpredictable," says a diplomat. "There has been a decline to the point where essentially most of the time he is in a state of dementia." Often, the King does not even know where he is. "Basically, he has no short-term memory," says this source. "There are stories of his speaking to a brother or a son. This person will leave the room, and a few seconds later Fahd will ask, 'Who was that...
...Third-Dementia...
Maybe we will never really know what drove DuPont to dementia or why he finally snapped. But it's clear that even a huge inheritance can't buy sanity. In fact, DuPont's wealth may have contributed to his problems. DuPont's bankroll gave him the freedom and the resources to concentrate on cultivating his odd obsessions...
...Medicaid recipients around the country, may have saved for their retirement, but their care remains either unaffordable or unmanageable. Lois Horn neglected her now bankrupt lamp business to care for her aging mother until the burden became too much. The 89-year-old mother currently lives, wheelchair bound and dementia-stricken, in the Carondelet Holy Family Center in Tucson, which costs more than $3,000 a month. "We don't have the money to pay for her care. She has to have assistance. I've given up taking her home for holidays, like I used to do, because...