Word: wheelchairs
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...SHIGETA, A LOS ANGELES CITY OFFICIAL, RULING THAT NUDE SHOWER DANCING AT A LOS ANGELES NIGHTCLUB DISCRIMINATED AGAINST WHEELCHAIR-BOUND STRIPPERS, WHO THEORETICALLY COULDN'T FIT IN THE CLUB'S SHOWER STALL
...many patients, postpolio means having to take up the braces and wheelchairs they worked so hard to escape. Stanley Lipshultz, a Washington trial lawyer, is just starting to use the crutches his doctor prescribed. "I had a handicapped license plate on my car for two years before I actually used a handicapped parking space," he confesses. "The hardest part is you feel you're falling apart," says Rena Shnaider, a retired rehabilitative counselor from Oakland, California, who has spent her life in a wheelchair but who drove a car, went to college and had enough control over her body...
...called for a chair, then suddenly collapsed. The audience gasped as he landed facedown with a thud. "I thought he had died," Sinatra's bass player told the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "I always figured he'd go onstage." Revived a few moments later, Sinatra was rushed off in a wheelchair and spent a few hours in a local hospital before flying to his home in Rancho Mirage, California...
...Lewis' preparation for each film is a challenge of heroic proportions and minute detail. While making My Left Foot, he stayed in his wheelchair even when not on camera and taught himself to paint with his foot. For The Last of the Mohicans he learned how to skin animals and shoot muskets. In New York for The Age of Innocence, he checked into his Victorian-style hotel as Newland Archer and wandered the city dressed in 1870 clothes. For In the Name of the Father, he lost a substantial amount of weight. In preparation for the scene where his character...
...using this movie to make America love us, they are making them love a false image. I don't want that kind of acceptance. And I am tired of hearing how brave Tom Hanks is! All you have to do to win an Oscar is play someone in a wheelchair, or someone blind, or someone gay. Besides, he looks better at the end of his life than most people do in their prime. It's like a bad hair day with a lesion...