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Film review: the immoderate adventures of Oliver Sacks – The Conversation AU
Though Oliver Sacks wrote two memoirs before his death in 2015, a new film brings his joys, hardships and excesses into affectionate focus.
Review: Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, directed by Ric Burns
Apropos of nothing but a bowl of jello placed before him, a stifled laugh escapes from Oliver Sacks, the famed neurologist, writer and public intellectual.
What are you thinking about? asks a voice offscreen.
Sacks demurs at first or perhaps feigns reluctance then relents.
Until a few years ago, I would wake up at night with an erection. Nothing to do with sexual excitement But it was at times irritatingly persistent. So, I would sometimes…
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