GÉRARD DEPARDIEU VAI SER STRAUSS-KAHN NO CINEMA

Confirmação dada pelo realizador Abel Ferrara

O actor Gerard Depardieu deverá vestir a pele de Dominique Straus-Khan no filme do cineasta Abel Ferrara sobre o escândalo que afastou o director do Fundo Monetário Internacional do cargo e da corrida à presidência francesa. Isabelle Adjani poderá interpretar o papel da mulher de DSK no filme.

O realizador confirmou esta informação à agência de notícias Ansa, durante o festival de cinema Capri-Hollywood, no sul de Itália.

Abel Ferrara confessou ter ficado interessado pela história sobretudo por causa da esposa de DSK, a jornalista Anne Sinclair, que ficou a seu lado quando este foi acusado de tentativa de violação de uma camareira de um hotel de Nova Iorque. O ex-director do FMI negou sempre as acusações, mas o processo foi travado apenas por causa de contradições da alegada vítima.

http://www.tvi24.iol.pt/cinebox/dsk-strauss-khan-gerard-depardieu-tvi24-cinebox/1313347-4059.html

CHRISTMAS MIRACLE

Coma patient wakes up, speaks after nearly being taken off life support following crash

By Associated Press, Published: December 23

PHOENIX — It will be a special Christmas for the family of a 21-year-old University of Arizona student who was nearly taken off life support before awaking from a coma.

Sam Schmid was walking and speaking Friday at a Phoenix hospital. Dressed in a T-shirt, shorts and sneakers, he was able to use a walker and talk in brief sentences.

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( The Arizona Republic, Deirder Hamil / Associated Press ) - Sam Schmid listens as Dr. Robert Spetzler, unseen, talks about Schmid’s brain injury during a news conference at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix on Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. Schmid, an Arizona college student believed to be brain dead and poised to be an organ donor, miraculously recovered just hours before doctors were considering taking him off life support. Schmid was critically wounded in an Oct. 19 five-car accident in Tucson.

“Right now, I’m feeling all right ... except for the rehabilitation, I’m feeling pretty good,” Schmid said.

Doctors at Barrow Neurological Institute say Schmid has a long recovery ahead of him to regain full speech, balance and memory abilities.

Schmid was involved in an Oct. 19 car crash in Tucson that left him with a brain aneurysm, among other life-threatening injuries. Because of the complexity of his brain injury, Schmid was flown to Phoenix.

He underwent surgery performed by Dr. Robert Spetzler. With no responsive signs, staff discussed taking Schmid off life support.

“They never approached me to say would I donate his organs,” said Susan Regan, Schmid’s mother. “The people that were surrounding us were just asking about Sam, his quality of life, what would Sam want if we had to come to a difficult decision.”

Spetzler said Schmid was never officially classified as a potential organ donor. And after an MRI scan showed he wasn’t at a point of no hope of survival, Spetzler recommended keeping him alive for one more week.

Then on Oct. 24, Schmid shocked doctors by following commands to hold up two fingers.

“It may not seem like a lot to you,” Spetzler said. “It’s an incredible loop to show brain ability. That was like fireworks going off.”

Since then, Schmid has been spending his days in physical rehabilitation. Dr. Christina Kwasnica, who is overseeing Schmid’s rehabilitation, said he has gone from practicing sitting in a chair to doing rehab three hours a day. She described his recovery so far as amazing but hesitated to make any predictions of what “normal” would be for him.

“It’s so early in Sam’s injury. We have no idea where the ceiling is,” Kwasnica said.

While he will be able to spend Christmas day with family in Phoenix, Schmid will not officially be released until next week. His brother, John, based in Tucson, will relocate to Phoenix so Schmid can continue rehabilitation on an out-patient basis.

Schmid, who is a business major and was coaching basketball at a University of Arizona recreation center, is holding onto the belief that he can get back to what his life was like before the accident.

“I see myself leaving the house, going to school, work, basic things like that,” Schmid said. “I just want my life to be what it used to be.”

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/coma-patient-wakes-up-at-phoenix-hospital-after-nearly-being-taken-off-life-support/2011/12/23/gIQAFmIvDP_story.html

MILAGRE DE NATAL

Sam Schmid tinha sofrido um grave acidente de automóvel

Norte-americano de 21 anos recupera do coma a poucas horas de desligarem a máquina

24.12.2011 - 17:27 Por PÚBLICO

Imagem de Sam Schmid transmitida pela ABC News 

Sam Schmid estavava em coma desde Outubro, os médicos já se preparavam para desligar a máquina, estava a pensar-se na doação de órgãos. Até que despertou. “Ninguém me poderia dar melhor presente de Natal”, diz a mãe.

A máquina que ligava Sam Schmid à vida seria desligada dali a poucas horas, a esperança esvanecera, confirmam os médicos. Mas sem que se consiga explicar porquê, o rapaz de 21 anos, estudante de Gestão na Universidade do Arizona, EUA, despertou. E já deu uma conferência de imprensa em que os jornalistas puderam vê-lo a caminhar. Para ele “é um milagre”, para o neurocirurgião que o acompanhou, Robert Spetzler, “uma recuperação absolutamente notável”.

Foi a 19 de Outubro que Sam Schmid foi parar a uma cama do Instituto Neurológico Barrow, do Centro Médico St. Joseph, no Arizona. Um acidente de carro deixou-o em coma, dois meses depois os médicos declararam morte cerebral, entre os familiares já se debatia a questão da doação de órgãos.

Mas este Natal viria a ganhar um significado especial para esta família. “Ninguém me podia dar melhor presente do que este”, disse aos jornalistas a mãe, Regan Schmid.

Com a ajuda de um andarilho e de um fisioterapeuta, Sam já consegue caminhar e falar. Pausadamente, com a confusão própria de quem enfrenta perguntas de jornalistas após dois meses de ausência. E mal se lembra do acidente.

Durante o período em que esteve em coma foi submetido a uma cirurgia devido a um aneurisma, sofreu uma hemorragia e um derrame cerebral e deixou de responder a estímulos.

“Agora sinto-me bem”, diz, citado pelo Washington Post. “Vejo-me a sair de casa, a ir para a universidade, a trabalhar, coisas assim”, adianta. “Quero que a minha vida seja como sempre foi”.

Schmid já poderá passar o Natal em casa, mas pela frente tem ainda um longo trabalho de reabilitação. Os médicos acreditam na possibilidade de uma recuperação completa.

http://www.publico.pt/Mundo/norteamericano-de-21-anos-recupera-do-coma-a-poucas-horas-de-desligarem-a-maquina-1526391

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