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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Sad news

It has recently been revealed that British actress Dame Judi Dench is going blind.  Here is an article about it from the UK Mirror -

Dame Judi Dench, the British actress perhaps best known as M from the James Bond series, granted an interview to the Mirror in which she spoke of being diagnosed with macular degeneration and admitted she even struggles to read her scripts or make out the faces of people standing right in front of her. At one point she even told her interviewer, "I can’t see your face at all now, but I can see your outline." The actress, currently working on her seventh James Bond pic, Skyfall, set to release later this year, has learned to cope though. "You get used to it," she says, mentioning how her daughter often helps her memorize her lines, adding that, "I’ve got lenses and glasses and things and very bright light helps. I can do a crossword if it’s bright sunshine but if a cloud comes out the next minute I can’t see anything." So for the sake of Judi Dench, we think cloudy days should be phased out.

What a shame.  I wish her the best.

1 comment:

  1. I agree it is sad. It does however bring it to the forefront and then some people who have it also can relate and benefit from hearing how the well known person deals with it, positively in Dame Judi Dench's case. She is still able to make another movie, I like to hear that!

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