The big headline on the HBO Alzheimer’s Project says HOPELESS with the LESS crossed out.
This made me excited for this unprecedented, three-part series on this most important of issues.
But then I watched the trailer. And it was HOPELESS. I will watch and I’m sure hoping to find a little more hope – that isn’t only in the scientific “race for a cure”.
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Hmmm…. I agree. I don’t have HBO so won’t be able to watch. If you hear that DVDs can be purchased. let us know.
The Alzheimer’s Study Group report seems to be pushing for an all-out, “put a man on the moon”, effort to find a way to detect very early markers that can be reversed before symptoms show up. With enough funding, they think this could happen by 2020. By then, there will be a lot more people with memory loss, some of it quite severe. How will we care for THEM? Or, more accurately, for US?
Susan – HBO is allowing all network cable providers to receive HBO for these 3 nights to air the series. All viewers of basic cable will be able to see the Alzheimer’s project as it airs. Woohoo!
Susan, DVD’s with the bookwill be sold thru Amazon.com .
Does anybody know who does the song for the trailer? Watching the trailer with the song in the background brought me to tears the first time I saw it.
Ted,
The song that HBO is using with the trailer is called “Mad World.” The original version was sung by the group Tears for Fears whose big hit was “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” which was the theme song of Dennis Miller’s now-canceled HBO program. The version that is used by HBO for “The Alzheimer’s Project” is available on ITunes and it is listed as being peformed by Gary Jules with Michael Andrews. Perhaps coincidentally, it’s getting a lot of attention because one of the “American Idol” contestants Adam Lambert performed a cover version of the slowed-down “Mad World” first done so by Gary Jules.
On the ITunes website it says that Gary Jules’ version first appeared on the soundtrack to the film “Donnie Darko” in 2001.
Am seeing a screening of part of “The Alzheimer’s Project” this Friday.