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It is not hard to find patients at St. Christopher's who will complain about the lack of honesty when they were in the hospital. Or of the suffering because medication was only given when the pain became too enormous to bear. Or of the indignities forced on the dying...
She has never lost her sense that death "is an outrage" for those left behind. "It's an outrage when a young father or mother dies, leaving two kids, or two old people who have spent 50 years together are parted." She is sustained by her belief that "this isn...
Mandela's illness triggered fresh demands from around the world for his release. Botha knows if Mandela dies an imprisoned martyr, widespread violence is likely. On the other hand, his release might be greeted by an uncontrollable uprising of millions of black South Africans for whom he is the leading...
One way or another, Kirk Douglas has been repeating that gesture most of his life. In this vigorous, anecdotal autobiography, the actor maintains that the clamorous spirit of Issur "has never left me. He is always somewhere within me, often out of sight, but never too far away . . . Often, I...
Two biographical films, soon to be released, will limn the twin toxicities of heroin and pop celebrity. Bird is Clint Eastwood's meditation on the pioneering jazzman junkie Charlie Parker; Wired adapts Bob Woodward's book about the life and drug-induced death of John Belushi. Both movies fit a...