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SUMMARY: Confronted by her own grandmother’s illness, writer and neuroscientist Lisa Genova started her exploration of Alzheimer’s with one question: What does it actually feel like to have the disease? Her resulting novel, “Still Alice,” was adapted into a film that has been nominated for an Academy Award. Jeffrey Brown interviews Genova about why she turned to fiction.
GWEN IFILL (NewsHour): A new film, and the book that inspired it, are getting high praise this awards season for the spotlight they cast on the toll of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
Jeffrey Brown looks at the film and its subject, part of our occasional feature, 'NewsHour Goes to the Movies.'
JULIANNE MOORE, Actress: Man has an instinctive tendency to speak, as we see in the babble of young children.
JEFFREY BROWN (NewsHour): When we first meet Alice Howland, she’s 50 years old, an accomplished professor of linguistics, but something is beginning to happen.
JULIANNE MOORE: I hope we convince you that by observing these baby steps into the — into — I — I knew I shouldn’t have had that champagne.
JEFFREY BROWN: We watch as Alice loses words, gets lost in familiar places, forgets appointments. Eventually, she’s diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s.
JULIANNE MOORE: Why won’t you take me seriously?
JEFFREY BROWN: It’s an up-close and sometimes raw portrait shown from the perspective of someone with a disease that today affects more than five million Americans, including 200,000 who experience early onset.
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