Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other character prepared to take extreme measures is the only child to survive the crash, Nicole Burnett. She is Stevens' equal, both in character intensity and strength as an actor. As the sullen survivor Nicole, Sarah Polley gives a mesmerizing performance, confined to a wheelchair and unwilling to participate in Stevens' act of retribution. Her story is echoed in Robert Browning's poem, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," which she tells in flashback to the children she baby-sits. Browning's poem provides a recurring metaphor for the film--one not limited to the simple comparison between the children...
...Thursday, the 69-year-old Gigante entered the Brooklyn courtroom well dressed, and without the wheelchair he had used during his four-week July trial. Knowing the Chin, the 21st century could find him jogging in Central Park...
...goes well, the kids will be out of the hospital by late January--which is when they would have been born if they had gone full term. Their mother, who has been visiting her babies by wheelchair, may leave the hospital early this week. In a television interview Friday, Bobbi said she'll be home for Thanksgiving "if I have to walk home...
...named MIKE LOOKINLAND who, after playing Bobby Brady, had to learn to cope with both his strange, pseudo fame and a less-than-stellar emergence from puberty. Lookinland, 36--who on the short-lived 1990 dramatic series The Bradys played a race-car driver who was wheelchair-bound owing to an accident--was arrested after flipping his car twice in a drunken-driving incident in Utah. The ex-actor, who had three times Utah's legal blood-alcohol limit, was working as an assistant cameraman on the set of CBS's religious drama Promised Land...
...most interesting figure in this disjointed, unconnected ensemble actually turns out to be that of the "real" Jerome, Vincent's sullen, wheelchair-bound double, who drops hints of injuries beneath the surface that existed even before his actual accident. In fact, the most gripping sequence in the movie involves a painfully drawn out demonstration of Jerome's, not Vincent's, force of will. It is also Jerome's final act, in a ghostly mirroring of Vincent's, that saves the ending from outright banality; the image he leaves--of a silver medal flushed to gold--is arresting, if not terribly...