Posted on 06/19/2009 8:57:07 AM PDT by Scarpetta
HUNTINGTON BEACH – Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer, was staying alive for one thing – a movie.
From the minute Colby saw the previews to the Disney-Pixar movie Up, she was desperate to see it. Colby had been diagnosed with vascular cancer about three years ago, said her mother, Lisa Curtin, and at the beginning of this month it became apparent that she would die soon and was too ill to be moved to a theater to see the film.
After a family friend made frantic calls to Pixar to help grant Colby her dying wish, Pixar came to the rescue.
The company flew an employee with a DVD of Up, which is only in theaters, to the Curtins’ Huntington Beach home on June 10 for a private viewing of the movie.
The animated movie begins with scenes showing the evolution of a relationship between a husband and wife. After losing his wife in old age, the now grumpy man deals with his loss by attaching thousands of balloons to his house, flying into the sky, and going on an adventure with a little boy.
Colby died about seven hours after seeing the film.
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Right...that was what I was thinking. If you don’t have everything set up to watch on your PC (assuming they had a PC that could even handle watching a movie off the Internet...) it could be really be problematic.
Especially for a family under stress with a dying child.
Normally, I would never support a movie with Ed Asner.
But in this case I make an exception.
You’re welcome. An addendum though, I believe if you don’t enforce your copyrights, when you finally do you may be looking a less money you can get from the infringer since you have in the past shown your copyright isn’t very valuable to you. But Disney enforces its copyrights, so that’s not an issue here.
The story or the movie?
The story—haven’t seen the movie yet.
Well there’s no video to watch, but it’s a sad event nonetheless, thanks for the ping, now I’m interested in the movie.
Me too—I’ve heard good reviews from a couple of people.
I could have done without reading this. Poor little kid.
Amazing that someone could spin the story this way.
It is about 50 miles from Burbank to Huntington Beach, and they FLEW someone up with a bunch of stuffed characters and the DVD.
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