movies where a plot line centers around an (in the movie) actor's real life illness

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06-11-10, 05:56 PM

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Will you fuckers lay off Sarah Jessica Parker already? Her suicide scene in "The Ring" is one of the last decade's most riveting screen performances...

As was her scene in The Godfather. She really nailed it.

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06-11-10, 10:24 PM

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I'm pretty sure Hume Cronyn was actually suffering from dementia when they wheeled him into Marvin's Room.

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06-11-10, 11:24 PM

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Chris Burke in the TV series "Life Goes On", about the life of a kid with Down's Syndrome.

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06-11-10, 11:54 PM

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Did the Edward G. Robinson character in Soylent Green have cancer? I think Robinson died a couple weeks after the film was finished.

No, he was just "old" although that's not why he died. But there was something about his being close to death and how they did the heavenly-sequence being related although I can't remember exactly what it was.

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06-12-10, 02:39 AM

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You've got your facts a little screwed up. In real life Mark Hamill actually was attacked by a wampa. It happened in Malibu.

lol, I'm picturing a Wampa in board shorts

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06-12-10, 10:48 AM

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As long as we're considering actors' injuries, how about Mark Hamill. I didn't research the details of this, but I believe a similar thing happened to him (car accident), resulting in some facial injuries, which were then worked into the beginning of ESB by having him be the victim of a Wampa attack.

Lucas claims that was in the script before Hamill's accident. Then again, Lucas claims he had the entire series planned out from the beginning, and we all know that's bullshit.