A 60-year milestone celebration gave me the opportunity to see Alfred Hitchcock’s #TheBirds on the big screen this past weekend. With a plot purportedly taken from a short story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier, writer of the book that inspired Hitchcock’s classic Rebecca, research shows that both the book and the film …
Gary Busey was not always the odd man that people see now. Once a rising star, a 1988 motorcycle accident, in which he wasn’t wearing a helmet, destroyed his hopes of stardom based on his acting skills. (Helmet use not only decreases risk of death, but also head injury.) In addition, a drug addiction harmed …
At the height of his singing career, Justin Bieber had a mild concussion, a brain injury. As bizarre as it may seem, we’ve all done something similarly clumsy: backstage at a concert, he ran into a glass wall. The resulting concussion caused him to fall unconscious. After one night of rest, he resumed his tour. …
Once a star in such films as Basic Instinct and Casino, many of you may wonder why Sharon Stone seems to have almost vanished from leading roles on the big screen, and often cameoed on TV, during this millennium. As it turns out, Stone suffered a stroke in 2001. Though the vast majority (75 percent) …
TBI on the Screen 