The 1920s saw an outbreak of a virus that made sufferers “experience” a lasting and subdued state of unconsciousness commonly called sleeping sickness. Forty years later – in the summer of 1969 – the miracle drug L-DOPA was administered to these patients who have been in a comatose state for most of their lives. The […]
This 1988 film was not a comedy although starred Bette Midler, the darling of comic invention, who made a bankable star at the movies as well. Here, in Beaches, the loveable comedienne loses none of her extroverted edginess but tempers it with a much softer shade, opposite the fine Barbara Hershey. As their respective characters, […]
