Jan Sweeney wrote:

> That comercial (which brought me to tears) is the artist known as King Gimp.
> His real name is Dan.  HBO did a documentary on him and he won an Oscar last
> year for it.  It is an amazing show!!  He is truely an inspiration.  He
> lives on his own, graduated from college with an art degree and to my
> knowledge he is making a good living selling his art.  You can check out his
> web page at www.hbo.com/kinggimp  I highly recommend the show if you can
> catch it.  I tried to see if it was out on video and was unable to locate a
> copy so if anyone has a copy, please email me.
>
> Jan
> Noah's mommy
> vacterls, cp, preemie, g-tube, blah blah blah
> www.minidreams.com/noah
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marie Stangel" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 1:03 PM
> Subject: [HK] actors, artist and the Super Bowl
>
> > Okay, did anyone see the commercial with the artist who painted with a
> > headpiece and had beautiful works of art.  I think the ad was for
> cingular.
> >  Emily, 5 nda, started to laugh because the artist had halted speech.  It
> > was one of those wonderful teachable moments.  I explained that he
> probably
> > had a brain injury like Evan except he may have had an injury to the place
> > that lets him talk.  I also used a student I had in class to explain this.
> > She really understood and it was a wonderful ad.  Robert and I watched it
> > and cried.  I sure hope they play the ad a lot.
> > Marie
> > Mom to Emily 5 nda and Evan my 21 month old imp w/ LH
> >
> >
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