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last nite my sister, whom i just turned on to Terry Pratchett, told me he has early onset alzheimers...





...she had known for a while but only told me last nite as she knew how much he means to me and felt it might devastate me...

...too weary by the news, i did not log on to the internet last nite to research it... and only today started looking up the info...

is there a thread dedicated to this? how did i miss it? it was news in december... and evidently there was an interview on television with him about it fairly recently.

i would like to know the thread(s) and any links and also info on how i might view the interview or any other media stuff...

it is just not fair

Its not fair fluffy such a shame I wil look out some threads for you

There is one

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/13/terry_prachett_alzheimers/

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3042608.ece

http://eurocrime.blogspot.com/2007/12/terry-pratchett-news.html

Thats three for you

Bob...

merci


....going to check those out now and then i have to go to my counselling session but will be back later tonite... my tonite... 8 hours from now sorta kinda

wanna keep this thread alive to see if we can pick up anymore info, bobby... thank you so much for quick response

He repeatedly points out that he's not yet dead and he still has a few books left in him. He's also trying to raise awareness of the illness and how badly it's funded and researched when compared to 'sexy' illnesses like cancer.

Its all part of the service and you are highly regarded this side of the pond Fluffy.

.. .. . nods . .. . ..

yeah... just read the three links Bob supplied... Terry's statement is true to the form for which we love him so

Have you seen the new TV film 'colour of magic' in the states yet

nooooo i noticed the reference and am trying to find out how to see it... sky one has trailers and showed it at easter but i didnt know about it till today


also... hogswatch wanna find that tooo

Only a walk round Sky tv Fluffy thats all I can find

Hogfather's on DVD and TCOM will end up on DVD...even if samwise gamgee's not chinese

k k thanks t b falsename... dvd for hogfather... and waiting on another airing of tcom...

who is samwise gamgee?

Fluffy

The chap who played Twoflower was Sam (Samwise Gamgee - Frodos companion) in the Lord of The Rings Film(s). Terry originaly portrayed him as Oriental in the book (this might not make sence if you have not read the book yet).

Still for me it did not spoil the TV movie at all he was very good in the part.

ahhh so!

>> this might not make sense if you have not read the book yet <<

oh i have read the book... in fact i have probably read it twice

and the thing is, just as in Douglas Adam's books, nothing will ever compare to Terry's writing... the turn of the phrase, the nuances, sheer genius!

so the movies stand alone and probably don't need to try to exactly mirror the books...

still, it woulda been nice, huh, if an asian fellow played Twoflower...

i mean... Terry musta made him asian for a reason...

what I shall refer to as the third book in the Twoflower trilogy takes place in the Agatean Empire, kind of Imperial China. In fact the story would not make sense were it otherwise. As this is Twoflower's home he must be Agatean, that is the Discworld version of Chinese.

...could he be adopted?


let's go ask Terry!

aha!!

http://media.barnesandnoble.com/index.jsp?fr_story=66ea36effacb12f8d42a1294411c2b525c7706bf

this is Terry expounding extroidinaire on many subjects and includes him referring to TwoFlower as 'an American Tourist' and that they made him American so that this movie would, unlike Hogfather, be considered legit by the American movies houses and be released here in America...

Thanks for the link fluffy

So they're not going to be making Interesting Times then I guess. I guess in the book he was a stereotype Japanese tourist. Americans would have understood that as they used to have them in WB cartoons

>> tereotype Japanese tourist. Americans would have understood that as they used to have them in WB cartoons <<

Mr Falsename... he he he... there actually is a basis and reason for the Japanese tourist stereotype outside of WB cartoons ...they really dooooooo take a lot of pictures!!