Word: wheelchair
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...many, his visage evoked the cackling, maniacal villain Tommy Udo pushing an old woman tied to a wheelchair downstairs, in the 1947 film Kiss of Death. But offscreen, Richard Widmark played the true gentleman. Over his career, the chiseled, unconventionally handsome actor portrayed a vast array of characters--from frontiersman Jim Bowie in The Alamo to the head of a psychiatric institution in Cobweb to the corruptible boxing promoter Harry Fabian, one of his most memorable roles, in Jules Dassin's Night and the City...
...extensive work with the Denver-based Physically Handicapped Actors and Musical Artists League (PHAMALY) opened his eyes to issues involving disability and accessibility as well as new approaches to his art. “It really changed the way I think about theater, because when you have a wheelchair there are so many more possibilities in terms of how you can move around on stage,” Miller says. Each of the actors in the project is disabled, and Miller claims that their ability to transcend the audience’s preconceived notions can be transformative...
...gentleman was a goon. Richard Widmark, whose death on Monday was announced by his wife Susan Blanchard, had one of the grisliest, most electrifying debuts in movie history. In the 1947 Kiss of Death, he played the psychopathic Tommy Udo, maniacally giggling as he pushed a wheelchair-bound old lady down the cellar stairs to her death. This sort of violence, explosive and explicit, was startling in early postwar films, as were the insane delight glinting in the killer's eye, the sexual thrill in his catarrhal voice. But that was just acting - glorious acting - for Widmark was a well...
...Clapp, who lost both legs and an arm after being hit by a train seven years ago, surfs, golfs, runs, swims and skis, among other things. One of the first doctors Clapp saw after his accident told the family that Clapp would spend 99% of his life in a wheelchair. "He didn't know what I was capable of," says Clapp, now 22. Eventually, his family helped him find Carroll, who has been working with him ever since...
...surprise that Americans are turning toward these operations - joint replacement has spared millions of older adults from spending their older years in a wheelchair. "We have a perfect storm of an aging population, increased demands by younger patients, a better ability to do the procedure, and increased arthritis in the general population," says Dr. Richard Iorio, a senior orthopedic surgeon at the Lahey Clinic Medical Center in Burlington, Mass., and lead author of the paper. Painful osteoarthritis, he explains, is responsible for the vast majority of joint replacement surgery...