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...There is a doubling of cardiovascular risks that begins at this point," says Dr. George Bakris of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. That means up to 45 million people who thought they were on safe ground may be at risk...
...alternative to medication may be early death but also because side effects can be easily minimized or eliminated, particularly with so many drug combinations to try. And while most people need to continue taking hypertension medications for life, that doesn't mean the dose can't be lowered. Says Rush University's Bakris: "I tell patients that if they reduce their grocery bill they can also reduce their medication bill...
...into his characters. He disappeared into Inspector Clouseau, Dr. Strangelove and Being There's Chance the Gardener. But did he have a character of his own? It is a credit to HBO's The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (Dec. 5, 9 p.m. E.T.) and its star, Geoffrey Rush (Shine), that this TV biopic sometimes makes you want to know. We meet Sellers as a young radio comic supported by a loyal wife (Emily Watson) and driven to want more by his lovingly pushy stage mum (Miriam Margolyes). After starmaking film work with directors Blake Edwards (John Lithgow...
...story that has launched a thousand network-sweeps movies--star with parental issues, beloved by the public but cruel to those closest to him, wildly successful but never satisfied. The HBO difference is in execution. Most notably, Rush, like Sellers in Dr. Strangelove, steps into several roles, delivering monologues in the characters of Sellers' father, his mother, his wife, Edwards and Kubrick...
...Rush's performance is undeniably a tour de force. (Oscar winner plus HBO movie plus multiple roles--they probably engraved Rush's Emmy months ago.) And Life and Death is stylistically ambitious, but it never becomes more than a style exercise. As Sellers did, it desperately throws stunts at you to keep your attention. When it sheds light on Sellers' craft as an actor, it is fascinating. But above all, this is the story of a man his first wife lambastes as a "bore of a little boy." Life and Death finally proves her right. --By James Poniewozik