(06-20-2009, 03:58 AM)AppleHead Wrote: I cried after reading the original article

Pixar grants girl's dying wish to see 'Up'
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/pixar-up-movie-2468059-home-show

Quote: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.

Pixar officials declined to comment on the story or name the employees involved.

It was great for Pixar to actually fly someone over with the movie and then give souvineers. They didn't even want credit for the act by saying no comment to the media. Didn't know corporations could still act that way.

(06-22-2009, 03:20 PM)AppleHead Wrote: Don't wanna sound preachy but I'm surprised the Iran election protests hasn't been discussed here at all. I think everyone should at least try and find out what's going on, to appreciate the country you live in in spite how bad things may seen. Be thankful for democracy.

(06-17-2009, 11:24 AM)Sforza Wrote: Tattoo gone wrong: Stars and gripes forever?

Quote:A Belgian teenager has told police how she emerged from a tattoo parlor with 56 stars over one side of her face, rather than the three she had asked for, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

"I said this part, the top, is ok, but not the rest," Kimberley Vlaeminck from the city of Kortrijk, 90 km (56 miles) northwest of Brussels, told Belgian broadcaster VRT.

The 18-year-old said she fell asleep during the procedure, and woke up in pain when her nose was being tattooed.

SHE DIDN'T GET WHAT SHE PAIDED FOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!