Julianne Moore takes pains to portray early Alzheimer’s
By Mary Milliken LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Early in the film "Still Alice," the Columbia University professor played by Julianne Moore is the picture of health taking a jog through campus, until she realizes she is completely lost. Miniscule movements in her pale face betray the panic racing through her brain, but it will be nothing compared with what is to come for Alice, or for the audience for that matter. At 50, the brilliant lecturer and beautiful redhead will be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and the audience has a front-row seat to her terrifying decline. …
