Said Diane Keaton, in 2015, quoted in "What Diane Keaton Shared About Her Health Before Her Death/Diane Keaton—whose cause of death has not been shared—was open about her health battles with skin cancer and bulimia that affected her growing up" (E! News).
ADDED: "We're here to see The Nose. I heard it was running..."
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Basal cell skin cancer is pretty slow moving other than in the immune compromised. So, not the cause of death here. At her age lots of other things are far more plausible.
Woody Allen must be really ancient, as I heard he was ten years older at the time of their relationship.
Diane aged better.
An awful lot of people in their seventies and eighties and even older, get along pretty well and then a week or two in the hospital for some minor illness and they come out with full blown dementia. It's called hospital delirium because, supposedly, the hospitals and doctors aren't causing dementia, but it is very odd how often it happens. I think it's something that the MAHA movement should be concerned about. You go to the hospital for an infection, you don't need to come out with your brain destroyed.
I'm bingeing Elementary while I do my knee PT exercises and there was an episode with the kookiest plot element I think I've ever encountered: man is sent a pair of just-amputated ears, which turn out, based on DNA, to be from his wife who disappeared 5 years prior and whom he has adamantly insisted either walked out on him or was kidnapped - though he was tried in the court of public opinion and presumed guilty of killing her. So now we know she's alive (or was a day before), and he can't be her murderer.
Turns out the wife DID leave him, took up with a plastic surgeon, needed money, and so hatched a plot to grow a pair of her own ears on her back to extort "ransom" from her husband. At this point in the story I remembered the mouse with the human ear growing on its back, and that this is actually the method plastic surgeons use to grow such parts.
So now I'm assuming that you can do the same with a nose, since it also is all cartilage.
You don't know what it is until you've had your nose carved up and put back together. While the young doctor was doing the procedure of stitching it all up and building me a new nose, his iPad was streaming country music, the first of which was this tune, which always makes me smile. It turned out well - not quite as functional (it drips now) but it looks better than the original.
Midland - Drinkin' Problem
So I guess Auntie Martha's nose was no good for cloning her back to life.
Keaton also wrote a memoir of her troubled brother's life. It was well received.
My Mom had skin cancer so bad they removed her lower lip, flipped it around, and re-attached it, the way one would turn a shirt collar.
As they say, getting old isn't for wimps
I have to be careful about which sun screen I use because it tends to block my pores, especially on my nose.
One of my wife's brothers has been contending with skin cancers for ten years and more, mostly on his head and back.
I saw him a few weeks ago when we were picking one of his daughters up for a girls' trip to the UK, and he had a plug out of his scalp about the size of a hockey puck. Yuck.
His nose was rebuilt a few years ago and looks OK from a distance and in a dim light.
Put him in a rocking chair out front and the trick-or-treaters will stay away.
I should say that the cancers in my own family tend to work on our innards.
Speaking of amputated ears: some years ago a couple of pranksters crafted an ear from thinly sliced ham, placed it in a velvet-lined shadow box, and sneaked it into a museum as a display. They labeled it "Van Gogh's Ear."
(taken from "The Compleat Practical Joker", by H. Allen Smith)
"So I guess Auntie Martha's nose was no good for cloning her back to life."
Never clone alone.
Thanks for the nudge. Movie clip added to post.
Tacitus said...
"Woody Allen must be really ancient, as I heard he was ten years older at the time of their relationship."
He was just on one of TheFP's podcasts. he sounded ancient, although still lucid.
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