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Roy Lee "Rocky" Dennis (December 4, 1961 – October 4, 1978) was an American teenager who had craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, an extremely rare sclerotic bone disorder. The condition usually results in neurological disorders and death during childhood or teenage years. His life was the basis for the 1985 drama film Mask.
In 1978 Azusa, California, Rocky Dennis, a teenage boy with the extremely rare genetic disorder known as craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, is accepted without question by his freewheeling biker mother's boyfriend Gar, who is a father figure to him, his "extended motorcycle family," and his maternal grandparents who share his passion of baseball card collecting; but is treated with fear, pity ...
Eric Stoltz (born September 30, 1961) is an American actor, director and producer. He played Rocky Dennis in the biographical drama film Mask (1985), which earned him the nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture.
Rocky's body was donated to the UCLA genetics research center for science and then cremated. [ 9 ] [ 12 ] Tullis married her third husband Bernie Tullis, [ 1 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] but they separated after six weeks of marriage, both of them still grief-stricken over Rocky's death. [ 12 ]
Peter Bogdanovich's 1985 drama film Mask drew public attention to the case of Roy Lee "Rocky" Dennis, an American boy with this disorder who died at the age of 16, in 1978. In the American medical drama Grey's Anatomy episode " Yesterday ", Jesse Plemons plays a teenage boy with lionitis.
But Dennis is a more complicated character: a cringey, almost predatory force who doesn’t know where to draw the line. Early on, he seems like a normal enough guy, quickly agreeing to buy ...
Let's do the time warp again! Several decades have passed since the release of 1975's The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and original movie cast member Barry Bostwick is looking back on his experience ...
He put the confusion to rest with his Rocky Dennis in Heaven EP (2004). In 2003, Lekman self-released a 7" vinyl EP, Maple Leaves. When the same EP was released on CD by the Swedish independent label Service Records later that year, he was a well-known name.