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...very fortunate in my career," he said. I've never had to direct a film I didn't choose or develop. My love for filmmaking has given me an entree to the world and to the human condition." He closed by noting that he'd received a heart transplant from a woman who was in her 30s when she died. "By that calculation, you may have given me this award too early. I think I have 40 years on it, and I intend to use it." He didn't. A Prairie Home Companion, the uneasy blend of Garrison Keillor...
Full Face Transplant Hospital board approves surgery Nearly a year after the world's first partial face transplant was performed in France, surgeons at London's Royal Free Hospital got the go-ahead to seek a volunteer for the first full face transplant...
...their clothes in French), this menswear shop, tel: (66-2) 640 8088, is all about putting on a daily armor that wouldn't look out of place in a style capital like London or New York City. In fact, artist turned designer Suparerk Bhasaputra is a New York transplant. Born in Bangkok, he spent 25 years in the Big Apple before returning to his birthplace. "When I first got here, the chaos in the way people dressed was giving me a headache," he says. "So I brought the New York stark sensibility over here." A minimalist, Comme...
...DIED. Jeff Getty, 49, AIDS patient and activist who agitated for experimental medical treatments; of cardiac arrest; in Joshua Tree, California. In 1995, after a two-year fight for approval, Getty received bone-marrow cells from a baboon-the first animal-to-human bone-marrow transplant-to boost his immune system. Though his body rejected the cells and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration later banned such transplants, he used his visibility to fight on, successfully getting more doctors to perform organ transplants on AIDS patients, whose prognoses were often deemed too bleak to justify such surgery...
Your 1994 liver transplant was controversial. At the time, there were some people who said you got special treatment because you are a celebrity...