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...disease that will kill her (Welch's mother died when he was eleven): "He was overcome with the beauty and sadness of his own singing ... He wasn't going to help her. He was going to cry." In The Trout Stream, a child confronts a man in a wheelchair: "The plaid rug across his knees made me wonder fearfully what the legs could be like underneath. Were they all withered away? Were they like drumsticks when the chicken has been eaten...
...dressing up in clown costumes and performing an impossibly energetic, strenuously graceful "ghetto ballet." Or the Dominican preteens in New York City who take up ballroom dancing in Mad Hot Ballroom, or the music students in Rock School. And though the quadriplegics who play a brutal form of wheelchair rugby in Murderball are gruff, grown men, they too are capable of uplift. "I'm alive," says one. "I use everything I have, to get through life. That's what we're all here to do. Use everything we have...
...Henry Alex Rubin. "Like, you should know about the horrors of Vietnam. But it wasn't entertaining. We wanted to make a movie about these quadriplegics, not a movie about quadriplegia. We wanted it told from their perspective, which is why we shot much of the film from a wheelchair. We've kicked away the soapbox. We aren't preaching at you. We also tried to shoot, edit, score and pace it like a feature film. We chose subjects who had, if there is such a thing, star quality. We tried our best to make the movie not look...
...know how or why or for how long,'" says Rein of Huang. "But at least it will give Willie a better quality of life for some time." For people robbed of movement, says Gary Allsop, a director of Spinal Cure Australia who's been in a wheelchair since an accident 16 years ago, even small gains can be miracles. "If someone told me they had got the use of their hands back, I would say, Sign...
...Melbourne man Craig Lattin was a fit 34-year-old when he developed a limp and was diagnosed with MND. Two and a half years later, he's in a wheelchair. He says he wouldn't try Huang's procedure - "it's too early to know exactly what you're doing, quite apart from the ethical issues" - but believes the doctor should continue his work: "Every adult should make their own choice. And even if there's limited success, it will teach us something." At their home in Rotorua, filled with pets and photos, Rein says he'd hoped...