The WELL: David Shenk: "The Forgetting"

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permalink #126 of 137: virtual community or butter? (bumbaugh) Fri 13 Feb 04 14:03

    
Thank you, David and Cynthia. I learned loads following along here.

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permalink #127 of 137: Donna Odierna (strega) Sat 14 Feb 04 09:34

    
Me, too. Thanks!

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permalink #128 of 137: jessica (gobeyond) Mon 16 Feb 04 09:09

    

 Me, three.  I especially appreciated the stark honesty from those of
 you who are caretakers. Eye opening and heart wrenching. Consider
 yourselves beamed upon.

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permalink #129 of 137: Teleological dyslexic (ceder) Mon 16 Feb 04 09:27

    
Thank you for all the touching stories.  (Tears are the hardest stains
to get off of glasses.)

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permalink #130 of 137: Angie Coiro (coiro) Thu 19 Feb 04 17:51

    
David Shenk is one of my guests tomorrow on Friday Forum on KQED-FM,
10am.  88.5 fm in the Bay area; streaming live at www.kqed.org/forum.

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permalink #131 of 137: Gail Williams (gail) Thu 19 Feb 04 17:58

    
Wow, how cool!

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permalink #132 of 137: Cynthia Dyer-Bennet (cdb) Fri 20 Feb 04 10:04

    
Break a lip, David!

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permalink #133 of 137: Angie Coiro (coiro) Fri 20 Feb 04 14:48

    
He was wonderful!

That hour repeats tonight at ten. It's also available in our on-line
archive at www.kqed.org/forum.

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permalink #134 of 137: David Gans (tnf) Wed 9 Jun 04 09:33

    

From David Shenk:




Hey everyone,

Thought you might like to know that PBS's "The Forgetting" is re-airing
nationally on Wednesday, June 16. To find out what time(s) in your area, go
to:
http://www.pbs.org/theforgetting/about/index.html

Also, I've finally put together a decent website: http://www.davidshenk.com

best,

David

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permalink #135 of 137: Zen Cohen (tinymonster) Wed 9 Jun 04 09:54

    
I'll bet it will get an added surge of interest, coming as it is on
the heels of Mr. Reagan's death.

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permalink #136 of 137: Cynthia Dyer-Bennet (cdb) Wed 9 Jun 04 15:15

    
Thanks for posting the pointer, David.

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permalink #137 of 137: David Gans (tnf) Wed 7 Jul 04 09:08

    
There's a story in a public-broadcasting trade publication, CURRENT, about
the success of a film based on"The Forgetting":



Proud memory: The Forgetting

By Steve Behrens

> Strange how a harrowing program about a nightmare disease can become a
> major feel-good event for public TV.

> Though some viewers said they didn't like seeing the difficult realities of
> The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's and its stories of three families
> and medical researchers struggling with Alzheimer's disease, many more,
> paradoxically, thanked public TV for showing it to them in January.

> Along with the bad news, the program brought viewers some relief--
> information about a disease they didn't understand and hope about the help
> they didn't know they could get.

> "The more information that's out there, the more people can say, 'Grandma
> was really mean today, but that's the Alzheimer's talking,'" says Chris
> Siefert, outreach director at Montana PBS in Bozeman.

http://current.org/outreach/outreach0411forgetting.shtml

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