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More than 90% paralyzed and unable to speak by the time she came to Haven House, Lane controls her world by computer. The ALS Association of Georgia, with help from Lane's church, installed $2,000 worth of software in her omnipresent laptop. She can move her left shoulder enough to make her elbow control a mouse, allowing her to scroll through the alphabet--and communicate. Taped up on two walls of her room are one-page instructions to the staff that detail just how she is to be positioned at the computer and given drinks, including the angle...
...private nurse $150 a week for help beyond what the hospice staff can provide. Along with paying for a private nurse, Kita and her husband John, both city of Atlanta employees, spend about $300 a month on medications not covered by Medicare. Ultimately, respiratory failure kills ALS patients, and Lane has signed a do-not-resuscitate order, which will keep her off a ventilator. An ordained Baptist minister, she says she is "ready to do whatever God would have me do." --By Greg Fulton...
...real person, played by Terry Chen) to profile an up-and-coming (fictional) rock band called Stillwater. Trying to get an interview with Stillwater guitarist Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup), young Miller finds himself traveling with the band and falling in love with the guitarist's pet groupie, Penny Lane (Kate Hudson), all the while remaining bound to the apron strings of his mother (Frances McDormand), a liberal crusader who sees rock 'n' roll as nothing more than a drug-laden detour on her son's path to law school...
...with waist-length red hair, moved to Los Angeles to be with a keyboard player for Steppenwolf. There she became enamored of musicians and their milieu, and when she returned to Portland, she continued hanging out with the bands that came through town. Adopting the name Pennie Lane and a vintage 1940s wardrobe of dresses, hats and gloves, she became one of the era's more notable groupies, playing den mother to a group of attractive acolytes known as "the Flying Garter Girls." "They had to be good students, and they couldn't get drunk, and they couldn...
Around 1973, Crowe and Lane met at a Portland concert. "I could always tell if someone had that star quality," says Lane, who retired from the groupie scene at age 21, received her M.B.A. and now owns a marketing firm in Portland. "He had it all over him, the aura. I said, 'You're gonna be huge! Huge!' He was so cute...