Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Monday, February 28, 2005
Clint Eastwood, Hunter Thompson, and the "right to die"
“Does anyone need another million dollar movie?
Does anyone need another million dollar star?”
-Lou Reed, “Straw Man”
Journalist (and crip) John Hockenberry recently wrote that the same critics heaping praise on Clint Eastwood and “Million Dollar Baby” have “failed millions of Americans with disabilities by accepting as utterly plausible the plot-twist that a quadriplegic would sputter into medical agony in a matter of months and embrace suicide as her only option in a nation where millions of people with spinal cord injuries lead full long lives.” Thus, as the Oscars threatened to become a lovefest for Dirty Harry, I posed some questions to Mary Johnson, editor of The Ragged Edge (http://www.raggededgemagazine.com).
To read the complete interview, please click here:
http://www.globalresistancenetwork.citymax.com/MZ_MillionDollarBaby.html
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