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Hello List members. My colleague Beth Haller is not on this list, but I have been sending her the discussion of King Gimp because I knew of her connection to it. She has asked me to forward the message below. Best to all, Corinne >Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 16:53:42 -0600 >From: Beth Haller <[log in to unmask]> >Organization: @Home Network >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en]C-AtHome0407 (Win98; U) >X-Accept-Language: en >To: Corinne Kirchner <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: King Gimp > > >> corinne, please forward this to the listserve if it hasn't been > already. thanks, beth<< > >Dan Keplinger, the subject of King Gimp, was one of my news writing >students here at Towson University in Maryland. (It just happened to be >good fortune for me and him, as I do research on news media and >disability issues.) > >My understanding is that Dan was not on the stage at the Oscars because >the award goes to the filmmakers. And these are two fine filmmakers, who >"get it" in terms of disability issues. see their other work at >www.videopress.org under the pediatrics section. (they have won numerous >Emmys as well). > >What makes "King Gimp" an important film is Dan's involvement in the >process. He wrote the script for the documentary and this means he had >much control over his representation. He and the filmmakers were >committed to having his way of communicating re-created in the film. He >has a severe speech disability, so he types on a computer with his >headstick, and this was recreated very effectively in the film. > >i hope this helps explain some of the background. if you would like to >email dan, let me know, and i will ask him about giving out his address. > >best, >Beth Haller >-- >Beth A. Haller, Ph.D. >Assistant Professor of Journalism, Towson University >8000 York Rd., Towson, MD 21252-0001 >Phone: 410-830-2442 Fax 410-830-3656 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%