The Oscars Are A Big Night For The Neurologically Challenged Community
Eddie Redmayne wins the Best Actor Award for playing a man with ALS. Julianne Moore wins the Best Actress Award for playing a woman with Alzheimer's.
It's a great night if you have a neurological disease.
The last year has been amazing for the ALS community. Between the film "The Theory of Everything", tonights Oscar and the Ice Bucket Challenge, awareness for this horrendous disease is at an all-time high. It's much needed, too.
What does all this mean for those of us with Parkinson's?
The Oscars show there is a market for films with lead characters that have these debilitating diseases.
We've already had Michael J. Fox playing the lead in his own tv show last year. He also has a recurring role in "The Good Wife". Parkinson's gets plenty of awareness.
But who knows....maybe there's a film about Fox and his heroic battle with Parkinson's. Linda Ronstadt? Robin Williams? Maybe another film about Muhammad Ali?
If nothing else people will be talking about this and it will raise awareness for all the neurological diseases....always a good thing.
If you're part of the neurologically challenged community, be happy. It's a good night for us. We don't have too many of those.
For those who like this, here's a piece about the Ice Bucket Challenge.
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