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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.
"Rocky," his mother said, "everyone can look like anyone else, but no one can look like you. Take pride in that." [9] Both parents raised Rocky following their divorce, with Rusty having primary responsibility. [9] About three weeks before he died, Rocky's headaches intensified, and he had to resort to a wheelchair. Tullis alerted the hospital ...
Find-A-Grave is not a reliable source and cannot be used. Anna Hamilton Phelan wrote a screenplay based on Dennis's life, and Peter Bogdanovich directed the 1985 drama film, entitled Mask, in which Eric Stoltz portrays Dennis and his mother, Rusty Dennis, is portrayed by Cher. The film came about after Phelan’s chance meeting with Roy Lee ...
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 ...
Timothée Chalamet’s global press tour for “A Complete Unknown” went viral when he rode an electric Lime bike into the London premiere of the acclaimed Bob Dylan movie. But it turns out ...
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.
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A man passes by a painting of Israeli female observer soldiers who were kidnaped during Hamas' Oct. 7 deadly attack and were supposed to be released in the first phase of the ceasefire deal ...