To take on Still Alice, a project about a fatal degenerative disease, when already dealing with another fatal degenerative disease was daunting. Moreover, the diseases themselves were almost direct ...

This is FRESH AIR. The Oscar buzz was strong for Julianne Moore at the world premiere of "Still Alice" at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival, and she's still the favorite, after a recent Golden Globes win ...

In the new film "Still Alice" we watch the beautiful and vivacious Julianne Moore deteriorate, disintegrate and disappear right before our eyes. A celebrated linguistics professor at Columbia ...

Most of us can’t imagine having a disease that tugs and tears at the very threads of who we are. When we wake up in the middle of the night with outlandish fears, we strike reassuring bargains with ...

Julianne Moore says her Oscar-winning role in Still Alice reshaped how she understands Alzheimer’s disease. That experience led her to become an advocate for earlier, more open conversations about ...

Lisa Genova, the Harvard-trained neuroscientist who became nationally known in 2007 for her exploration of early onset Alzheimer's in “Still Alice,” takes on bipolar disorder in her latest book, “More ...

Welcome back to another round of love or loathe. This time we have Julianne Moore and her Oscar winning performance in Still Alice. While I do understand why the Oscar’s gave her a win for this ...

In Lisa Genova's novel Still Alice, Alice Howland, a professor of psychology at Harvard, develops early-onset Alzheimer’s at the age of 50. She begins to suspect that something is wrong when she ...