2015年4月2日 星期四
Richard Glatzer, filmmaker of Alzheimer’s drama ‘Still Alice,’ dies
By Lindsey Bahr
Richard Glatzer, who co-wrote and directed
“Still Alice,” a film that in February earned Julianne Moore an Academy Award
for her portrayal of an academic suffering from early onset Alzheimer’s
disease, died March 10 in Los Angeles
Mr. Glatzer’s husband, Wash Westmoreland,
confirmed the death to the Los Angeles Times. The cause was complications from
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Mr. Glatzer was diagnosed in 2011 with ALS
and took on the project of “Still Alice” in a very early stage of the disease.
He collaborated with Westmoreland, his partner on previous films.
During the 23-day shoot, Mr. Glatzer
communicated with one finger using a text-to-speech app on his iPad. By the
time of the press tour for the film in late 2014, Mr. Glatzer was only able to
communicate by typing on the device with his big toe.
The parallels between Mr. Glatzer and their
lead character’s degenerative diseases helped to inform the adaptation of
author Lisa Genova’s best-seller.
“Many of the neurological appointments that
Alice had in the book echoed appointments that Richard had had when they were
testing to see if he’d had a stroke — like what’s today’s date, where are we,
all that stuff. It was eerily similar,” Westmoreland told the Associated Press.
Richard Mark Glatzer was born in Queens , N.Y. , on Jan. 28,
1952, and grew up on Long Island and in Livingston ,
N.J. University of Michigan
in 1973 and received a doctorate in English from the University of Virginia
After settling in Los
Angeles in the 1980s, he worked on television shows including “Road
Rules,” “Divorce Court America Divorce Court
He met Westmoreland in 1995. The couple
collaborated on four films as co-writers and directors, including “The Fluffer”
(2001), a comedy about the gay-porn industry; “Quinceañera” (2006), about a
Mexican American family in Los Angeles; and “The Last of Robin Hood” (2013),
which starred Kevin Kline as swashbuckling Hollywood actor Errol Flynn in his
final years.
Structure of the Lead：
WHO-
WHEN-
WHAT-the story about
WHY-she 10
WHERE-not given
HOW-her
Keywords：
1. complication：併發症
2. amyotrophic：肌肉萎縮
3. lateral ：橫向
4. sclerosis：硬化
5. neurological：神經系統
6. collaborate：合作
7. swashbuckling：虛張聲勢的
