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Show D6 The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH Monday, January 29, 1996 Octogenarian Inspires Study Of Alzheimer’s Sundance °96 Was a Winner, volved while the other prevented it for many studies show family history of progressive de into the causes of Alz making at what is now Care of the Spitfire Grill,” prompting threats of a lawsuit toll on the nation: One of every three families is affected at an an nual cost of more than $82 billion But numbers can’t describe the horror of a disease that relent fromrival distributor Trimark. Most of all it’s wrenching lone as friends and relatives aving you alone with 4,600 of the approximate Mfapersonwhowas your discovery zens Who live 1 n Cache County. They were aske: d about medical and occupational history and their use of various medica tions. Their mental status was evaluated, with questio that genetics onset of Alzwith research influence coup] indicating en may play a ly 5,000 s friend It s living for years e slow death of a mind and ality so close that it’s like the disintegration of about current events and memory tests In three ve the researchers ntal factors will return to retest mental status People who art ring demen tia will have already provided a Breitner’s group to project. The Cache Cc will attempt to sort out th ence of heredity and en on who gets Alzheimer s as well lucid history ind their DNA — that may uncover fact tened or slowe like strom have already an extensive Anp I administ nr study is we're looking at environmental factors notin isolation but in connection with one known ma- jor genetic influence,” he says There may be factors that attentuate the effects of the gene The researchers have already published one paper, reporting in the Journal of the American Geri atric Societyin 1994 that people most likely to refuse participation in a study ofcognitive status are to the ir pee haracterize é that way,” she says Onething you can be sure of utation of not being sophisticated get a reputationas not having th, logical endofit. We're goingt best exhibition place because th technical facilities don't work well.” (Construction begins soor hesays. “We're a gener ation that didn’t believe in mental illness. That's a dirty word While he understands the fear. Duffin says research offers the best hopeof preventing the indignity of dementia It's a complicated illness vince reluctant senior citizens of the study’s potential benefit to mental events, as well as biologi their children and grandchildren. I just try to make ties to them cal and medical events, is very promising. on an 800-seat performing-art complex in Park City, which j scheduled to be ready for next “We do very year’s festival.) Return onInvestment: As hi SundanceInstitute turns 15 thi year, Redfordfinallyis seeing th fruits of that labor. “It's take erally about 12 years for the insti tute to kick in, so it’s now regular John Walsh’s low-key roman- Withastudy like this, there’s alot of fear,” ly coughing up product,” Redfor tic comedy “Ed's Next Move’ went to Orion Classies said. “All thosefilms are gettir made. andthey'regettinginto thi marketplace and they're ending up in ourfestival, and they're good. W October Films — which already had theunsettling “Female Perversions” and thetenderIranianfilm “The White Balloon signed deals for Jim MeKay’s collaborative “Girls Town” and the French-Venezuelan Cinderella story “The Celestial Clockwork.” Redford. as always, has asle of projects in the works. He stars with Michelle Pfeiffer in “Up Close and Personal,” openingna tionwide rect andstar A filmmaker doesn't make a film to not have it beseen,” Redford said. “The objective is to have someone pick upthefilmfor Steve nitially was op- bly, a grenade-assault obstacle won't “moan and whine.” the only the Army.as. couse. fume ren witha £0. question i wheter € person ea no place pound pack andaphysical-fitness reachmilitary standards On. Shows She S test 5 All Soldier W , i 8 @ Continued from sit . antsSC ae BOE H ae g tired Marine pilot pressured to join th r tunity to serve her country. deve op her leadership skills and als « accommodate her zeal forthe out- dets doors and adventure target Pera four-week competition was ROT st ca infantr udin; shooting eape S assem. female is accepted, genderisn't anissue any longer. In the Army you're not male by CadettheLt, University. Col. Maren Barney 1094. of Utahin ROTC’s first woman battalion °F female. You'r S@YS. Soldiers are judged by po ential and performance ure at BYU. m. th * the University of Utah's ROT( Program, agrees and says once a mander to face it The trail for women wae blazed are , 1, stevenssays because of the cul- i B 2 She sees being an off career that allows her the but she will not be the first com- ecsrimander Lae A s 2 Col. Jeffrey Newey, director of Stevens expects petty intolerance and resentment from men, are the time-travel story women soldiers en Sometimes, however, male soldiers are intimidated by Stevens For example, some don't let her pass them running onthe track unter more petulance for their beingin the military than in other and others feel self-conscious rid ing onthe back of hermotorcycle. military entities Youre on the outside until I'mnot pretending to be a male.” she says. “Someone once Youre able to demonstrate your “she says of females inthe mit After knowing a woman soldier told me, ‘Rememberthat you're female, but don’t let that be an obstacle.” In the ROTC I'masoldier what thestudio does withit, how they handleit. Are they going to preserve your vision of the pic ture in their handling of it? Or are they going to distort it or turn it? 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John Anderson, the movie criti¢ for the ee 035| 035 UEseries (ZA)rersonas Paste | of a documentary on the late Western author Wallace Stegner the now-annual com derisively referred to the back breaking seats at Prospector up Aye Bd “The Brothers McMullen.” He also is executive producer and narrator Bad-Back Festival: Thefesti Paste KR stc92'. Legal mons executive producer for the coming HBO drama “Grand nue” and the follow-up to Burns’ Sundance-winning it, coming on the back side as to how you're treated next. Once your picture is picked up, it's Long Island newspaper Newsday “Time and Again” and the nonfiction le gal drama“ACivil Action.” He is desire for any filmmaker. The danger comesontheother side of val drew ch 1. He will next di in an adaptation of Nicholas Evans’ best-seller Th: Horse Whisperer. Down the road distribution. That is the ultimate Student “It enough to upscale their techn: simple things to provide entertainment here. We leaveit to the snow and to Harvey Weinstein.”) Sony Pictures Classics made a deal for “Manny & Lo,” a poignant and unpredictable comedy by Sundance Filmmakers Lab alumnaLisa Krueger. Duffin believes the reluctance is due to fear and a lingering sense of shame about dementia We'll have to come at it from a variety of approaches, he says Tracking someof these environ those with cognitive impairment \hIstrom says she tries to con as @ amine normal mem Interviewers link between the APOEgeneand Alzheimer’s as “fortuitious.” What's different about this Sooner or laterit’s all going t: dent Harvey Weinstein — who thought he had the movie sewn up awards ceremony: LynnR, Johnson’The Salt Lake David Hudson goes over data with JoAnnTschanz for Utah State University’s aging project. areas of sound and projectior whichled to Miramax Films presi City restaurant. (Redford joked about the altercation during the wedding anniversary Redford wouldlike to see Park City improvethe screeningfacili ties, particularly in the technical cause they'regoing to get the rep — blowing up at a “Shine” producer’s representative in a Pa) his anguish ina love story written about his Helen on their 54th here making deals back up onall of us,” he said. Shine” made a deal for U.S. rights with Fine Line Features. to remember and reason. Ken Duffin, who nursed his wife through a decade of ilpess until she died five years ago. described cel phones and notickets. They'r going to back up onthecity, he @ Makers ofthe Australian film lessly destroys a person's ability re You can look real hard at what the fringeis: a lot of people wit}; America’s most important filmfestival @Castle Rock Entertainment paid a whopping $10 million for the Audience Award winner heimer’s has accelerated, spurred heimer’s. ticket packaging down this ye in fact we cut it to control the size And yet there are more people of sometimes-contentious deal by projections that the disease will afflict 14 million Americans by 2050. Alzheimer's inflicts a staggering personal and financial may ties for independent filmmakers an opinion borne out bythe flurry mentia. re the filmmakers,” he said. “We don't add more tickets. 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