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WW, you are too close, but not close enough.

The gorgeous Ione Skye. And some poor shlub getting high. Skye. High. Sky High

I knew it immediately, but seeing as I'm dried up on ideas, I don't want to take another turn.

Goldie Hawn Death Becomes Her Bruce Willis

Sorry for the delay. George is right. First Blood, like Rocky, is a great movie whose legacy is marred by sequel-itis.

Oh, all right. The Sound of Music Next... "I came here to rescue you from him." "Well, we all appreciate your concern Colonel, I will try to be extra careful!" "I'm just amazed he allowed any of your posse to live." "Is that right?" "Strictly speaking, he slipped up. You're lucky to be breathing." "That's just great. Colonel, you came out here to find out why one of your machines blew a gasket!"

Did no one else see this?

Adieu, adieu, to you and you and you-ou.

MH, I understand your desire was to be helpful, and I do appreciate that. It's just that checking it out, I don't think this particular guy stumbled onto anything all that dramatic. I'd love to be wrong. But I do note that he has yet to respond to the ALSA e-mail, which again leads me to wonder. I trust you, MH, to be good-hearted and desire to help. I trust you to bring to my (our) attention things we may not have considered. And I appreciate it a great deal. Diane is on an organic diet and is doing what she can to eat healthy so that the things she takes in don't aggravate an already difficult and emotionally painful diagnosis. But I also believe there are people who prey on the good-hearted and hopeful among us. Eric Edney is, in my estimation, either one of those people or being used by those people. It seems to me he took a natural occurrence (his anomolous survival years after being diagnosed with ALS and doing nothing about it) and turned it into an amazing tale of anti-"science" and pro-"alternative" success. This, in turn, offers false hope to people with, admittedly, nowhere to turn. On another board, someone tried to turn me on to Kevin Trudeau's book, "Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know." Kevin Trudeau is a charlatan who'd put the most malicious TWI leaders to shame. I guess what I'm saying is, you have a good heart and I find comfort in your prayers. And Mark S: Thank you. This thread was easy to miss for a while because it was called "Rob and Diana," which didn't tell anyone anything. I had the name of the thread changed to be more straight forward in what it was about. Many thanks to all. $2,025 in donations so far for the ALS walk (April 12). My sig takes folks straight to my walk page, and yes, I'm still looking for donations. Every time I reach a goal, I raise it, so we've now raised the goal to $2,500. Peace.

Pretty much as advertised: The setup is that it's footage found in a video camera picked up in what used to be Central Park in NYC. That alone tells you pretty much how and where the movie ends. Ah, but getting there. Without going into every detail, we start out at a going away party for some guy who's on his way to Japan for a job. Some monster starts attacking, first in New York Harbor, then in midtown. Everyone runs outside just in time to see the head of the Statue of Liberty hit the street. Way cool. Some looting takes place, at which point our hero decides he needs a battery for his cell phone. While he's looking for the battery, the guy filming everything stops and looks at the news footage of what's going on, which helps give some other views. I won't say much more except that our main characters decide for fairly stupid reasons to head TOWARD the carnage to rescue some damsel in distress. The monster is like nothing you've ever seen. The Blair-Witch-type footage is either distracting or the best way to tell the story, the subway tunnel scene is one of the scariest I've ever sat through, Peter Jackson films more efficient endings, and you'll either love it or hate it. I loved it, but with full recognition that it's a stupid monster movie. If you saw Godzilla (the 1999 movie) and thought you could have done a better job with a camcorder, this is your movie.

I loved this movie, but please, do yourself a favor and take some Dramamine first. Oh, and if you hated the Blair Witch Project because of the camerawork, don't even bother watching this. But I really enjoyed it.

Mystic River Tim Robbins The Shawshank Redemption

Platoon Charlie Sheen Wall Street

I'm always distraught to hear stories of people who are afflicted with this disease. Last night I heard another one, and I confirmed it this morning. The guy's name is Charles McPhee. You might know him as "The Dream Doctor" from a hugely popular radio program that was broadcast in several cities up until a year and a half ago. He noticed that his speech was starting to slur, and when he got checked out, received his diagnosis. Lou Gehrig Jim Catfish Hunter David Niven Mao Tse Tung Jacob Javits Jon Stone (co-creator of Sesame Street) Henry Wallace (vice president under FDR) Harry Browne (1996 and 2000 Libertarian presidential candidate)

You tell her that every parent fears something awful will happen to their children, and for some parents, that fear becomes a reality. It is not the fear that causes it, for if that were the case, humanity would have not gone more than three generations. JOB WAS INNOCENT!

Thanks Linda. I had not seen that particular board, but it seems to confirm my suspicions. Look back at my first post on this thread... Then you have people like Steven Hawking, who has lived with this thing sinc ethe 1960s, but at enormous physical cost (anyone who doesn't know who he is, just Google him). So is it possible that Eric Edney has ALS and his disease is progressing very slowly? Sure. So is it possible, even, that he's one of those "miniscule few" in whom the symptoms reverse? Sure. And if either of those possibilities are true, doctors, scientists and researchers owe it to everyone to find out, if at all possible, why and how things are so different for him. But is it possible he was misdiagnosed to start out with? Yeah, that's possible too. Most ALS patients are dead within five years of diagnosis. Eric Edney was alive for five years before he STARTED his health regimen. Not only does this lead me to believe the health regimen may not be responsible for his longevity, it actually leads me to believe that any link between the regimen and Eric's longevity has been disproven by Eric Edney's own account. I'd love to be wrong about this. I'm particularly interested in seeing how Eric Edney responds to an inquiry from a legitimate organization dedicated to finding a cure and/or effective treatments of ALS.

ALSA is reaching out to Eric Edney for further information on his apparent recovery. My thoughts on this story are, frankly, skeptical. Here's a guy who lived for five years with ALS and did nothing extraordinary before changing his regimen, THEN, after five years, made these dramatic changes to his lifestyle and credits those changes with his recovery. Umm, five years? Most ALS patients are gone in that time. So he's worth studying, worth examining, but seriously worth questioning, too. I'll keep you posted if he chooses to respond to the ALSA request for information. If his answer is "buy my book," that will say a lot to me.

"When your captain first approached us we suspected that an agreement with humans would prove impossible to maintain. You are erratic, conflicted, disorganised. Every decision is debated, every action questioned. Every individual entitled to their own small opinion. You lack harmony, cohesion, greatness. It will be your undoing."

Nope. But it IS from the one where Nog, Quark and Rom time travel to Roswell, New Mexico, circa 19-whatever it was when the alien craft was supposed to have landed.

Start Rachins Sarek Shin Star Trek: Insurrection And if it's not, it should be.

That actor is Alan Rachins (LA Law, Dharma and Greg). Start, Go, Set Alan Rachins Sarek Mark Lenard Leg Thigh

I don't even CARE which is Audrey and which is Judy. ;) You're up.

Shawshank is a fine film, but not one of my faves, really.

Looks interesting, and Diane is reviewing the best health options for her. Thanks.