April 28, 2010
Christopher McCandless
Christopher Johnson McCandless (February 12, 1968 – mid-August, 1992) was an American wanderer who adopted the name Alexander Supertramp and hiked into the Alaskan wilderness with little food and equipment, hoping to live a period of solitude. Almost four months later, he died of starvation near Denali National Park and Preserve
Christopher McCandless in his camp on the Stampede Trail (self-portrait found undeveloped in his camera after his death)
Early years
McCandless was born in El Segundo, California to Walt McCandless and Wilhelmina "Billie" Johnson. He had one younger sister named Carine. In 1976, he moved with his family to Annandale, Virginia, an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C. located in Fairfax County, after his father was employed as an antenna specialist for NASA. His mother worked as a secretary at Hughes Aircraft where Walt worked, later assisting Walt with successful home-based consulting company in Annandale. Despite the McCandless family's financial success, Walt and Billie were often fighting and sometimes would contemplate divorce. Chris also had several half-siblings living in California from Walt's first marriage. Walt was not yet divorced from his first wife when Chris and Carine were born, but Chris did not discover his father's affair until a summer trip to southern California.
At school, teachers noticed McCandless was unusually strong-willed. In adolescence he coupled this with an intense idealism and physical endurance. In high school, he served as captain of the cross-country team, urging teammates to treat running as a spiritual exercise in which they
were "running against the forces of darkness ... all the evil in the world, all the hatred."
He graduated from Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School in 1986. On June 10, 1986, McCandless embarked on one of his first major adventures in which he travelled throughout the country only to arrive at Emory two days prior to the beginning of fall classes. He went on to graduate from Emory University in 1990, having majored in history and anthropology. His upper-middle-class background and academic success was the impetus for his contempt for what he saw as the empty materialism of American society. In his junior year, he declined membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Society, on the basis that honours and titles were irrelevant. McCandless was strongly influenced by Jack London, Leo Tolstoy, W. H. Davies, and Henry David Thoreau, and he envisioned separating from organized society for a thoreauvian period of solitary contemplation.
Traveling
After graduating in 1990, he donated the remaining $24,000 of the $47,000 given to him by family for his last two years of college to Oxfam International, a charity, and began travelling under the name "Alexander Supertramp" (Krakauer notes the connection with W. H. Davies, Welsh author of The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, published in 1908). McCandless made his way through Arizona, California, and South Dakota, where he worked at a grain elevator. He alternated between having jobs and living with no money or human contact, sometimes successfully foraging for food. He survived a flash flood, but allowed his car to wash out (although it suffered little permanent damage and was later reused by the local police force) and disposed of his license plate. He also paddled a canoe down remote stretches of the Colorado River to the Gulf of California. McCandless took pride in surviving with a minimum of gear and funds, and generally made little preparation. He was, however, frequently fed or otherwise aided by people he met on his travels.
For years, McCandless dreamed of an "Alaskan Odyssey" where he would live off the land, far a
way from civilization, and keep a journal describing his physical and spiritual progress as he faced the forces of nature. In April 1992, McCandless hitchhiked to Fairbanks, Alaska. He was last seen alive by Jim Gallien, who gave him a ride from Fairbanks to the Stampede Trail. Gallien was concerned about "Alex", who had minimal supplies (not even a magnetic compass) and no experience of surviving in the Alaskan bush. Gallien repeatedly tried to persuade Alex to defer his trip, and even offered to drive him to Anchorage to buy suitable equipment and supplies. However, McCandless ignored Gallien's warnings, refusing all assistance except for a pair of rubber boots, two tuna melt sandwiches, and a bag of corn chips. Eventually, Gallien dropped him at the head of the Stampede Trail on Tuesday, April 28, 1992.
After hiking along the snow-covered Stampede Trail, McCandless found an abandoned bus used as a hunting shelter and parked on an overgrown section of the trail near Denali National Park, a
nd began his attempt to live off the land. He had a 10-pound bag of rice, a Remington semi-automatic rifle with 400 rounds of .22LR hollowpoint ammunition, a book of local plant life, several other books, and some camping equipment. He assumed he could forage for plant food and hunt game. Despite his inexperience as a hunter, McCandless poached some small game such as porcupines and birds. Once he killed a moose; however, he failed to preserve the meat properly, and it spoiled. Rather than thinly slicing and air-drying the meat, like jerky, as is usually done in the Alaskan bush, he smoked it, following the advice of hunters he had met in South Dakota.
His journal contains entries covering a total of 189 days. These entries range from ecstatic to grim with McCandless's changing fortunes. In July, after living in the bus for several months, he decided to leave, but found the trail back blocked by the Teklanika River, which was then considerably higher and swifter than when he crossed in April. There was a hand-operated tram that crossed the river 1/4 of a mile away from where he fell in.[2] McCandless was unaware of this because the only navigational aid he possessed was a tattered road map he had found at a gas
station, and he had left on the dashboard of Jim Gallien's truck.[2] McCandless lived in the bus for a total of 113 days.
On August 12, McCandless wrote what are assumed to be his final words in his journal: "Beautiful Blueberries."
He tore the final page from Louis L'Amour's memoir, Education of a Wandering Man, which contains an excerpt from a Robinson Jeffers poem titled "Wise Men in Their Bad Hours":
On the other side of the page, McCandless added, "I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND THANK THE LORD. GOODBYE AND MAY GOD BLESS ALL!"
His body was found in his sleeping bag inside the bus on September 6, 1992, weighing an estimated 67 pounds (30 kg). He had been dead for more than two weeks. His official cause of death was starvation. Biographer Jon Krakauer suggests two factors may have contributed to McCandless's death. First, he was running the risk of a phenomenon known as "rabbit starvation" due to increased activity, compared with the leanness of the game he was hunting. However, Krakauer insists starvation was not, as McCandless's death certificate states, the only cause of death. Initially, Krakauer claimed McCandless might have ingested toxic seeds (Hedysarum alpinum). However, extensive laboratory testi
ng proves conclusively there was no alkaloid toxin present in McCandless's food supplies. In later editions of the book, therefore, Krakauer has speculated the poisonous fungus Rhizoctonia leguminicola could have grown on the seeds McCandless ate, aggravating his already weak physical conditions and leading to his possible death by starvation.
Cultural legacy
folk songs by singers Ellis Paul, Eddie From Ohio, Harrod and Funck, and Eric Peters.
Unlike Krakauer and many readers, who have a largely sympathetic view of McCandless, some have expressed negative views about those who romanticize his fate. Alaskans have been particularly skeptical.
Christopher McCandless in his camp on the Stampede Trail (self-portrait found undeveloped in his camera after his death)
Early years
McCandless was born in El Segundo, California to Walt McCandless and Wilhelmina "Billie" Johnson. He had one younger sister named Carine. In 1976, he moved with his family to Annandale, Virginia, an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C. located in Fairfax County, after his father was employed as an antenna specialist for NASA. His mother worked as a secretary at Hughes Aircraft where Walt worked, later assisting Walt with successful home-based consulting company in Annandale. Despite the McCandless family's financial success, Walt and Billie were often fighting and sometimes would contemplate divorce. Chris also had several half-siblings living in California from Walt's first marriage. Walt was not yet divorced from his first wife when Chris and Carine were born, but Chris did not discover his father's affair until a summer trip to southern California.
At school, teachers noticed McCandless was unusually strong-willed. In adolescence he coupled this with an intense idealism and physical endurance. In high school, he served as captain of the cross-country team, urging teammates to treat running as a spiritual exercise in which they
were "running against the forces of darkness ... all the evil in the world, all the hatred."
He graduated from Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School in 1986. On June 10, 1986, McCandless embarked on one of his first major adventures in which he travelled throughout the country only to arrive at Emory two days prior to the beginning of fall classes. He went on to graduate from Emory University in 1990, having majored in history and anthropology. His upper-middle-class background and academic success was the impetus for his contempt for what he saw as the empty materialism of American society. In his junior year, he declined membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Society, on the basis that honours and titles were irrelevant. McCandless was strongly influenced by Jack London, Leo Tolstoy, W. H. Davies, and Henry David Thoreau, and he envisioned separating from organized society for a thoreauvian period of solitary contemplation.
Traveling
After graduating in 1990, he donated the remaining $24,000 of the $47,000 given to him by family for his last two years of college to Oxfam International, a charity, and began travelling under the name "Alexander Supertramp" (Krakauer notes the connection with W. H. Davies, Welsh author of The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, published in 1908). McCandless made his way through Arizona, California, and South Dakota, where he worked at a grain elevator. He alternated between having jobs and living with no money or human contact, sometimes successfully foraging for food. He survived a flash flood, but allowed his car to wash out (although it suffered little permanent damage and was later reused by the local police force) and disposed of his license plate. He also paddled a canoe down remote stretches of the Colorado River to the Gulf of California. McCandless took pride in surviving with a minimum of gear and funds, and generally made little preparation. He was, however, frequently fed or otherwise aided by people he met on his travels.
For years, McCandless dreamed of an "Alaskan Odyssey" where he would live off the land, far a
way from civilization, and keep a journal describing his physical and spiritual progress as he faced the forces of nature. In April 1992, McCandless hitchhiked to Fairbanks, Alaska. He was last seen alive by Jim Gallien, who gave him a ride from Fairbanks to the Stampede Trail. Gallien was concerned about "Alex", who had minimal supplies (not even a magnetic compass) and no experience of surviving in the Alaskan bush. Gallien repeatedly tried to persuade Alex to defer his trip, and even offered to drive him to Anchorage to buy suitable equipment and supplies. However, McCandless ignored Gallien's warnings, refusing all assistance except for a pair of rubber boots, two tuna melt sandwiches, and a bag of corn chips. Eventually, Gallien dropped him at the head of the Stampede Trail on Tuesday, April 28, 1992.
After hiking along the snow-covered Stampede Trail, McCandless found an abandoned bus used as a hunting shelter and parked on an overgrown section of the trail near Denali National Park, a
nd began his attempt to live off the land. He had a 10-pound bag of rice, a Remington semi-automatic rifle with 400 rounds of .22LR hollowpoint ammunition, a book of local plant life, several other books, and some camping equipment. He assumed he could forage for plant food and hunt game. Despite his inexperience as a hunter, McCandless poached some small game such as porcupines and birds. Once he killed a moose; however, he failed to preserve the meat properly, and it spoiled. Rather than thinly slicing and air-drying the meat, like jerky, as is usually done in the Alaskan bush, he smoked it, following the advice of hunters he had met in South Dakota.
His journal contains entries covering a total of 189 days. These entries range from ecstatic to grim with McCandless's changing fortunes. In July, after living in the bus for several months, he decided to leave, but found the trail back blocked by the Teklanika River, which was then considerably higher and swifter than when he crossed in April. There was a hand-operated tram that crossed the river 1/4 of a mile away from where he fell in.[2] McCandless was unaware of this because the only navigational aid he possessed was a tattered road map he had found at a gas
station, and he had left on the dashboard of Jim Gallien's truck.[2] McCandless lived in the bus for a total of 113 days.
On August 12, McCandless wrote what are assumed to be his final words in his journal: "Beautiful Blueberries."
He tore the final page from Louis L'Amour's memoir, Education of a Wandering Man, which contains an excerpt from a Robinson Jeffers poem titled "Wise Men in Their Bad Hours":
On the other side of the page, McCandless added, "I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND THANK THE LORD. GOODBYE AND MAY GOD BLESS ALL!"
ng proves conclusively there was no alkaloid toxin present in McCandless's food supplies. In later editions of the book, therefore, Krakauer has speculated the poisonous fungus Rhizoctonia leguminicola could have grown on the seeds McCandless ate, aggravating his already weak physical conditions and leading to his possible death by starvation.
Cultural legacy
Krakauer's book made Christopher McCandless a heroic figure to many. By 2002, the abandoned bus (No. 142) on the Stampede Trail where McCandless camped became a tourist destination. Sean Penn's film Into the Wild, based on Jon Krakauer's book, was released in September 2007. In October 2007, a documentary film on McCandless's journey by
folk songs by singers Ellis Paul, Eddie From Ohio, Harrod and Funck, and Eric Peters.
Unlike Krakauer and many readers, who have a largely sympathetic view of McCandless, some have expressed negative views about those who romanticize his fate. Alaskans have been particularly skeptical.
Memorial left by Christopher's parents on bus 142
Christopher McCandless Bus.............................. ............ Billie[mom] at the bus
142 Fairbank City Bus Location ...................................Christopher McCandless'es final self portrait
Chris McCandless SOS note 142 Bus
April 10, 2010
Driver Standings@May 30 2010 F1
Team Standings@May 30 2010 F1
| Pos | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | McLaren-Mercedes | 172 |
| 2 | RBR-Renault | 171 |
| 3 | Ferrari | 146 |
| 4 | Mercedes GP | 100 |
| 5 | Renault | 73 |
| 6 | Force India-Mercedes | 32 |
| 7 | Williams-Cosworth | 8 |
| 8 | STR-Ferrari | 4 |
| 9 | BMW Sauber-Ferrari | 1 |
| 10 | Lotus-Cosworth | 0 |
| 11 | HRT-Cosworth | 0 |
| 12 | Virgin-Cosworth | 0 |
February 24, 2010
Hollywood+Remakes+In Hindi+Inspired+Bollywood+Movies
Plz don't get SHOCKED...
Aabra Ka Daabra :----: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Aawara pagal deewana :----: Whole nine yards
Aetbaar/Inteha :----: Fear
Aitraaz :----: Disclosure
Ajnabee :----: Consenting Adults
Andaz apna apna :----: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Awara Pagal Deewana :----: The Whole Nine Yards
Baazigar :----: A Kiss Before Dying
Bachna Ae Haseeno:----: John Tucker must Die
Black :----: The miracle worker
Chachi 420 :----: Mrs Doubtfire
Chak de india :----: Miracle on ice + Mighty Ducks
Chor Machaye Shor :----: Blue Streak
Chori Chori :----: Houseguest + HouseSitter
Chura Liye Hai Tumne :----: The Truth About Charlie
Click:----: Shutter
Criminal :----: Fugitive
Daraar/Agnisakshi/Yaraana :----: Sleeping With the Enemy
Dasvidaniya:----: The Bucket List
Deewaangee :----: Primal Fear
Deewane huye pagal :----: there's something abt mary
Dhoom :----: The Fast and the Furious +Ocean’s eleven
Dhoom2 :----: payback
Dil Hain Ke Mante Nahin :----: It Happened One Night
Dil Hi Dil Mein :----: You Got Mail
Dil Kabaddi:----: Husbands and Wives
Dilwale dulhania le jainge :----: The sure thing
Dostana:----: I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry
Dushman :----: An Eye for An Eye
Ek ajnabee :----: Man on fire
Ek hasina thi :----: Double Jeopardy
Ek Ladka Ek Ladki :----: Overboard
Ek-the power of One:----: The Wanted.
Fareb :----: Unlawful Entry
Fashion :----: Gia
Ghajini :----: Memento
Ghulam :----: On the Waterfront
Girlfriend :----: Single White Female
God Tussi Great Ho :----: Bruce Almighty
Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega :----: While You Were Sleeping
Hari Puttar:----: Home Alone
Heyy Babyy :----: 3 Men And A Baby
Hijack:----: Die-Hard
Hum Kissise Kum Nahin :----: Analyze This
Hum Tum :----: When Harry Met Sally
Humko Deewane kar gaye :----: Notting Hill,
Humraaz :----: A Perfect Murder
Jab we met :----: A walk in the clouds
Jail :----: The Shawshank Redemption—
Jism :----: Body Heat
Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar :----: - Breaking Away
Josh :----: West Side Story
Judwaa :----: Twin Dragons
Kaante :----: Resouvir Dogs
Kahin Pyar Na Ho Jaye :----: The Wedding Singer
Kidnap:----: Shattered
killer :----: collateral
Kismat Connection:----: Just My Luck
Kitna Hai Dil Baar Baar :----: Meet The Parents
Koi Mil Gya :----: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Krazzy 4:----: The Dream Team
Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi :----: The Parent Trap.
Kuch kuch hota hain :----: Sleepless in seattle
Kuch To Hai :----: I Know What You Did Last Summer
Kyon Ki :----: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Kyunki Mein Jhooth Nahi Bolta :----: Liar Liar
Love story 2050 :----: the timemashine
Main Aisa Hi Hoon :----: I Am Sam
Mann :----: An Affair to Remember
Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai :----: My Best Friend's Wedding
Metro :----: the apartment
Mohabbatein :----: Dead Poets Society
Mr ya miss :----: Switch
Mujshe shaadi karoge :----: anger management
Munnabhai MBBS :----: Patch Adams
Murder :----: Unfaithful
Musafir :----: U turn
Omkara :----: Othello
One Two Three:----: Blame it on the Bellboy
Paa :----: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Paap :----: Witness
Partner :----: Hitch
Partner 2 :----: Wedding crashers
Phir Hera Pheri :----: Lock stock and two smoking barrels
Pyar Ka Saaya :----: Ghost
Pyar To Hona Hi Tha :----: French Kiss
Pyar Tune Kya Kiya :----: Fatal Attraction
Qayamat :----: The Rock
Raat Gayi Baat Gayi :----: The Hangover---
Race :----: Bad lovers + Goodbye Lover.
Rang de Basanti :----: All My Sons + Jesus of Montreal
Rub a Ru:----: If Only
Saaya :----: Dragonfly
Sarkar :----: the godfather
Sauda/Judaai/Karobaar :----: Indecent Proposal
Shakti :----: Not Without My Daughter
Shaurya:----: A Few Good Men
Sholay :----: The Magnificent Seven
Singh is King :----: Lady for a Day
Sorry Bhai:----: Dan in Real life
Ssshh! :----: Scream
Tathastu:----: John Q
Taxi 9211 :----: Changing lanes
Tere Jado Chal Gaya :----: Perfect Picture
Main Hoon Na :----: Never Been Kissed
The Usual Suspects :----: Chocolate (2005)
Train :----: Derailed
U me aur hum :----: The notebook
Ugly aur Pagli:----: My Sassy Girl
Via Darjeeling:----: Rashomon
Yeh Dillagi/Dillagi :----: Sabrina
Zeher :----: Out of time
Raj Guru Quotes::Shame puppy shame...Are there any script writers in BollyWood?.Its better we rename the industry to CopyWood instead..
Aabra Ka Daabra :----: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Aawara pagal deewana :----: Whole nine yards
Aetbaar/Inteha :----: Fear
Aitraaz :----: Disclosure
Ajnabee :----: Consenting Adults
Andaz apna apna :----: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Awara Pagal Deewana :----: The Whole Nine Yards
Baazigar :----: A Kiss Before Dying
Bachna Ae Haseeno:----: John Tucker must Die
Black :----: The miracle worker
Chachi 420 :----: Mrs Doubtfire
Chak de india :----: Miracle on ice + Mighty Ducks
Chor Machaye Shor :----: Blue Streak
Chori Chori :----: Houseguest + HouseSitter
Chura Liye Hai Tumne :----: The Truth About Charlie
Click:----: Shutter
Criminal :----: Fugitive
Daraar/Agnisakshi/Yaraana :----: Sleeping With the Enemy
Dasvidaniya:----: The Bucket List
Deewaangee :----: Primal Fear
Deewane huye pagal :----: there's something abt mary
Dhoom :----: The Fast and the Furious +Ocean’s eleven
Dhoom2 :----: payback
Dil Hain Ke Mante Nahin :----: It Happened One Night
Dil Hi Dil Mein :----: You Got Mail
Dil Kabaddi:----: Husbands and Wives
Dilwale dulhania le jainge :----: The sure thing
Dostana:----: I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry
Dushman :----: An Eye for An Eye
Ek ajnabee :----: Man on fire
Ek hasina thi :----: Double Jeopardy
Ek Ladka Ek Ladki :----: Overboard
Ek-the power of One:----: The Wanted.
Fareb :----: Unlawful Entry
Fashion :----: Gia
Ghajini :----: Memento
Ghulam :----: On the Waterfront
Girlfriend :----: Single White Female
God Tussi Great Ho :----: Bruce Almighty
Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega :----: While You Were Sleeping
Hari Puttar:----: Home Alone
Heyy Babyy :----: 3 Men And A Baby
Hijack:----: Die-Hard
Hum Kissise Kum Nahin :----: Analyze This
Hum Tum :----: When Harry Met Sally
Humko Deewane kar gaye :----: Notting Hill,
Humraaz :----: A Perfect Murder
Jab we met :----: A walk in the clouds
Jail :----: The Shawshank Redemption—
Jism :----: Body Heat
Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar :----: - Breaking Away
Josh :----: West Side Story
Judwaa :----: Twin Dragons
Kaante :----: Resouvir Dogs
Kahin Pyar Na Ho Jaye :----: The Wedding Singer
Kidnap:----: Shattered
killer :----: collateral
Kismat Connection:----: Just My Luck
Kitna Hai Dil Baar Baar :----: Meet The Parents
Koi Mil Gya :----: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Krazzy 4:----: The Dream Team
Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi :----: The Parent Trap.
Kuch kuch hota hain :----: Sleepless in seattle
Kuch To Hai :----: I Know What You Did Last Summer
Kyon Ki :----: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Kyunki Mein Jhooth Nahi Bolta :----: Liar Liar
Love story 2050 :----: the timemashine
Main Aisa Hi Hoon :----: I Am Sam
Mann :----: An Affair to Remember
Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai :----: My Best Friend's Wedding
Metro :----: the apartment
Mohabbatein :----: Dead Poets Society
Mr ya miss :----: Switch
Mujshe shaadi karoge :----: anger management
Munnabhai MBBS :----: Patch Adams
Murder :----: Unfaithful
Musafir :----: U turn
Omkara :----: Othello
One Two Three:----: Blame it on the Bellboy
Paa :----: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Paap :----: Witness
Partner :----: Hitch
Partner 2 :----: Wedding crashers
Phir Hera Pheri :----: Lock stock and two smoking barrels
Pyar Ka Saaya :----: Ghost
Pyar To Hona Hi Tha :----: French Kiss
Pyar Tune Kya Kiya :----: Fatal Attraction
Qayamat :----: The Rock
Raat Gayi Baat Gayi :----: The Hangover---
Race :----: Bad lovers + Goodbye Lover.
Rang de Basanti :----: All My Sons + Jesus of Montreal
Rub a Ru:----: If Only
Saaya :----: Dragonfly
Sarkar :----: the godfather
Sauda/Judaai/Karobaar :----: Indecent Proposal
Shakti :----: Not Without My Daughter
Shaurya:----: A Few Good Men
Sholay :----: The Magnificent Seven
Singh is King :----: Lady for a Day
Sorry Bhai:----: Dan in Real life
Ssshh! :----: Scream
Tathastu:----: John Q
Taxi 9211 :----: Changing lanes
Tere Jado Chal Gaya :----: Perfect Picture
Main Hoon Na :----: Never Been Kissed
The Usual Suspects :----: Chocolate (2005)
Train :----: Derailed
U me aur hum :----: The notebook
Ugly aur Pagli:----: My Sassy Girl
Via Darjeeling:----: Rashomon
Yeh Dillagi/Dillagi :----: Sabrina
Zeher :----: Out of time
Raj Guru Quotes::Shame puppy shame...Are there any script writers in BollyWood?.Its better we rename the industry to CopyWood instead..
February 19, 2010
Jean Dominique Bauby
Jean Dominique Bauby (23 April 1952 – 9 March 1997) was a well-known French journalist and author and editor of the French fashion magazine ELLE.
On 8 December 1995 at the age of 43, Bauby suffered a massive stroke. When he woke up twenty days later, he found he was entirely speechless; he could only blink his left eyelid. Called locked-in syndrome, this is a condition wherein the mental faculties remain intact but most of the body is paralyzed. In Bauby's case his mouth, arms, and legs were paralyzed, and he lost 60 pounds (27 kg) in the first 20 weeks after his stroke
Despite his condition, he wrote the book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by blinking when the correct letter was reached by a person slowly reciting the alphabet over and over again.
Bauby had to compose and edit the book entirely in his head, and convey it one letter at a time. To make dictation more efficient, Bauby's interlocutor, Claude Mendibil, read from a special alphabet which consisted of the letters ordered in accordance with their frequency in the French language. The book was published in France on 7 March 1997. Bauby died of pneumonia just two days after the publication of his book,and is buried in a family grave at the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, France.In 2007, painter-director Julian Schnabel released a film version of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. It starred actor Mathieu Amalric as Bauby and won Schnabel the Best Director prize at Cannes, a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Director.
The script written for the film has been criticized by Bauby's lover as not faithful to events and biased in favor of his ex-partner.
Raj Guru Quotes::What a mental power!! most people will die that moment from inside.But this man was only locked inside his body.He was a free bird from the inside… Hats off to my hero Jean-Dominique Bauby..RIP J D B..
January 25, 2010
Must Watch+Engish+ Action+Crime+Drama+Thriller+Epic+Hollywood Movies+Best+Film
! Feel Sorry if you disagree with my list..Its just my own list according to my taste...
1. American Gangster
2. American History X
3. Apocalypto
4. Assassins
5. Behind Enemy Lines
6. Body Of Lies
7. Brave heart
8. Cliffhanger
9. Con Air
10. Crank
11. Death Race
12. Desperado
13. Die Hard
14. Die Hard 2
15. Die Hard with a Vengeance
16. Enter The Dragon
17. Face/Off
18. Gladiator
19. Live Free or Die Hard
20. Lord of War
21. Lucky Number Slevin
22. Minority Report
23. Mission: Impossible
24. Mission: Impossible II
25. Mission: Impossible III
26. National Treasure
27. Ocean's Eleven [2001]
28. Once Upon a Time in Mexico
29. Pearl Harbor
30. Phone Booth
31. Public Enemies
32. Rambo
33. Rambo III
34. Rambo: First Blood
35. Rambo: First Blood Part II
36. Rocky
37. Saving Private Ryan
38. Swordfish
39. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
40. The Dark Knight
41. The Godfather[I,II,III]
42. The Italian Job
43. The Killing Fields
44. The Prestige
45. The Specialist
46. The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3
47. The Tournament
48. The Transporter
49. Transporter 2
50. Transporter 3
51. Troy
52. True Lies
53. Vantage Point
54. War of the Worlds
55. Water World
1. American Gangster
2. American History X
3. Apocalypto
4. Assassins
5. Behind Enemy Lines
6. Body Of Lies
7. Brave heart
8. Cliffhanger
9. Con Air
10. Crank
11. Death Race
12. Desperado
13. Die Hard
14. Die Hard 2
15. Die Hard with a Vengeance
16. Enter The Dragon
17. Face/Off
18. Gladiator
19. Live Free or Die Hard
20. Lord of War
21. Lucky Number Slevin
22. Minority Report
23. Mission: Impossible
24. Mission: Impossible II
25. Mission: Impossible III
26. National Treasure
27. Ocean's Eleven [2001]
28. Once Upon a Time in Mexico
29. Pearl Harbor
30. Phone Booth
31. Public Enemies
32. Rambo
33. Rambo III
34. Rambo: First Blood
35. Rambo: First Blood Part II
36. Rocky
37. Saving Private Ryan
38. Swordfish
39. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
40. The Dark Knight
41. The Godfather[I,II,III]
42. The Italian Job
43. The Killing Fields
44. The Prestige
45. The Specialist
46. The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3
47. The Tournament
48. The Transporter
49. Transporter 2
50. Transporter 3
51. Troy
52. True Lies
53. Vantage Point
54. War of the Worlds
55. Water World
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