Dr. Oliver Sacks, M.D.

…just sent out this exciting announcement:

Last week, production began on a new feature film based on Dr. Sacks’s essay “The Last Hippie,” in An Anthropologist on Mars. Jim Kohlberg is directing the indie film, which stars J. K. Simmons (“Up in the Air” and “Juno”), Julia Ormond (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and “Temple Grandin”), Cara Seymour (“An Education”) and Lou Taylor Pucci (“Brotherhood”). The screenplay was written by Gwyn Lurie and Gary Marks, and the soundtrack will feature lots of Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, and other music from the sixties and seventies. The producers are looking at a fall release date, and we’ll keep you posted!

Oliver is a great life-long swimmer which he wrote about for the New Yorker a few years ago – and when we were both at MacDowell Colony last summer we became swimming buddies, though he would regularly lap me, and still be zipping back and forth well after I had run out of steam. (website)