Word: leukemias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gloria Burgess, 30, is an american who has recently lost her husband Bill, an English painter, to leukemia. She lives on in London with her admirably behaved eight-year-old son and tries to imagine how she will endure her grief and bereavement. One answer knocks on her apartment door shortly after Bill's death: Jascha Kremsky, a sculptor and an acquaintance of her late husband's and, it turns out, a widower who lost his wife and daughter in a car accident several years earlier...
...look at her son Hank (Leonardo DiCaprio), with his pathological fear of apologizing to people he's hurt. Fortunately, Lee's sister Bessie (Diane Keaton) is around. She has taken care of her dad for 20 years. But no good deed goes unpunished: Bessie has just heard she has leukemia...
Cineplexes will turn into pre-med lecture halls for the study of leukemia (Marvin's Room, with Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro) and mental illness (Shine, the acclaimed Australian film about pianist David Helfgott). There also will be political seminars on intolerance (The Crucible, with Winona Ryder and Daniel Day-Lewis) and the First Amendment as it applies to porn peddlers (The People vs. Larry Flynt, with Woody Harrelson and Courtney Love...
Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy and his daughter Kate, who was treated by the Dana-Farber Institute for childhood leukemia, were two of several speakers...
After Spiro Agnew died last week of acute leukemia at the age of 77, his onetime campaign press secretary Victor Gold said, "We speak of the Ronald Reagan revolution...Spiro Agnew was the John the Baptist for that revolution...