Word: leukemias
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...services is a long one--and, as always, it's a varied one. Over here are the Midwestern parents who have flown in specially to see if the lab can make them an exact copy of their six-year-old daughter, recently found to be suffering from leukemia so aggressive that only a bone-marrow transplant can save her. The problem is finding a compatible donor. If, by reproductive happenstance, the girl had been born an identical twin, her matching sister could have produced all the marrow she needed. But nature didn't provide her with a twin...
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...