HBO Warm Springs movie premiere

[Guest guest]

Geoff and I just got home from attending the premiere for HBO's " Warm Springs "

movie. It

was a fantastic event and I'd encourage all of you that get HBO to watch the

movie when it

airs on April 30th at 8pm EST.

The movie is a touching, couragous story about FDR's struggle with Polio and the

Warm

Springs Institute for Rehabilitation. Branaugh does a fantastic job as

FDR and

injects a great deal of emotion and maintains quite a bit of humor in his role.

Nixon is wonderful as FDR's wife and the movie has already been Emmy nominated

from

what I hear.

If you get the chance to see it, you'll see me in a number of scenes if you pay

attention to

the background. I have a scene on the porch of the Inn when Kathy Bates first

arrives and

walks up the steps. I'm sitting in a wheelchair reading a book on the right

side of the

porch. My hair is always up in the movie and I have very little makeup on

though, so I look

quite a bit different than I do in the photo section on the CMT site here.

I also am in a number of pool scenes. One where my husband Geoff is assisting

me down

the steps into the pool behind FDR, and a few on therapy tables in the pool. I

can be seen

on the right hand side of the pool in a burgundy bathing suit being worked on by

a

physical therapist, (who happens to actually be a real physical therapist at the

institute).

There are a number of close ups of arms and legs during the pt scenes, and I

know my

body parts are jumbled in there somewhere, but I'm not sure where. Just look

for CMT-

like limbs and chances are they might be mine, although there were a number of

Polio

patients there that actually do have Polio and muscle atrophy.

Geoff was in a number of scenes as one of Kathy's Bate's push boys and is seen

here and

there throughout the pool and Inn scenes.

It was amazing to me that after filming with them for 18 days a lot of the

scenes that I was

sure would make the cut, actually ended up on the cutting room floor.

It was a great experience and I encourage you all to watch the movie if you get

the chance.

I think it's fantastic that Hollywood is starting to broaden their awareness of

people with

disabilities, and I was thankful to be able to get out there and make more

people aware of

CMT.

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