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I personally know of a couple of older people who ended up with parkinsons, and it came after pretty bad head trauma.

A couple of relatives, unfortunately. One passed a few years ago, and the other got it way too young (in her 50's). I'm very invested in the subject. I've read all of Michael J. Fox's books, and what he details as his day to day is so unbelievably hard to imagine. I have a recurring monthly donation to his foundation for the past several years, as a result. It's a mystifying, horrible disease.
 
Yeah, and Fox's foundation's motto is they went into business for the specific purpose of going out of business - i.e., finding the cure.

There was just peanuts being spent on Parkinsons research before he set up his organization, and I think he's been able to push several billions of dollars to the cause since he set up shop. The dude is truly remarkable. Not sure very many other people, even those as well situated as he was, would've gone to the effort. I'd guess almost everyone would've just said to hell with it and tried to just squeeze enjoyment out of the personal lives while they could. Instead, he has spearheaded this cause and been one of the main reasons there have been advances.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
Yeah, and Fox's foundation's motto is they went into business for the specific purpose of going out of business - i.e., finding the cure.

There was just peanuts being spent on Parkinsons research before he set up his organization, and I think he's been able to push several billions of dollars to the cause since he set up shop. The dude is truly remarkable. Not sure very many other people, even those as well situated as he was, would've gone to the effort. I'd guess almost everyone would've just said to hell with it and tried to just squeeze enjoyment out of the personal lives while they could. Instead, he has spearheaded this cause and been one of the main reasons there have been advances.
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Listened to his most recent audio book. It was fantastic and he's an amazing human.

Which of his books would you recommend most? I assume his first?
 
Habspatrol said:
Listened to his most recent audio book. It was fantastic and he's an amazing human.

Which of his books would you recommend most? I assume his first?
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Honestly, they build on each other, because he's explaining the situation a few years later each time, so I just read them in order. There's some repetition, but you get a true understanding of his plight, as you already know. I truthfully was not feeling well for a good week after the final read, because I read them all in the space of a month and it got me really feeling awful that anyone has to struggle with that. He's amazing.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
I personally know of a couple of older people who ended up with parkinsons, and it came after pretty bad head trauma.

A couple of relatives, unfortunately. One passed a few years ago, and the other got it way too young (in her 50's). I'm very invested in the subject. I've read all of Michael J. Fox's books, and what he details as his day to day is so unbelievably hard to imagine. I have a recurring monthly donation to his foundation for the past several years, as a result. It's a mystifying, horrible disease.
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I'm in Toronto now helping my brother and his wife to tend to my mother who is stricken with Parkinsons and all the attendant hallucinations that come with it. It's not anything you'd wish for and it always ends badly.
 
LeafGm said:
Give me a faithful adaptation of The Silmarillion or GTFO.
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What rights do they even have? I'm under the impression that they have film rights to the main trilogy and the hobbit only. Which would mean that they're going to write expanded works from within the rights they already hold. Tolkien had planned on writing another story about some sort of evil returning in the time of Aragorn's sons/grandsons if memory serves. Warner Brothers might figure that it happening after the events of LOTR puts it in their rights wheelhouse (Amazon owns 2nd age rights for film/tv right now...no one owns earlier silmaril era rights to my knowledge)
 
MindzEye said:
What rights do they even have? I'm under the impression that they have film rights to the main trilogy and the hobbit only. Which would mean that they're going to write expanded works from within the rights they already hold. Tolkien had planned on writing another story about some sort of evil returning in the time of Aragorn's sons/grandsons if memory serves. Warner Brothers might figure that it happening after the events of LOTR puts it in their rights wheelhouse (Amazon owns 2nd age rights for film/tv right now...no one owns earlier silmaril era rights to my knowledge)
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Yeah, as far as I’m aware the Tolkien family/Estate is still the exclusive rights holder to The Silmarillion itself (or “Unfinished Tales”).

The only things the various studios own are the rights to the LOTR books, appendices & The Hobbit.
 
It's an ongoing television series. They should just be shooting nonstop with a summer break or something. When they're filming, they should have a team writing the next season's scripts. Finish those at the same time filming completes on the last set, and now you film the next set. Two years between seasons is toooooooo long.
 
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