Youve got to wonder if theres clustering hereJenny Robinson 2. Its not just that were having cancer, were having cancer outside the norm. When doctors cut a tumour from Jenny Robinsons breast in 2. It was unusual, because one was oestrogen positive and one was oestrogen negative, suggesting they were different types of breast cancer. The neighbours on both sides of the Robinsons have passed away from cancer. They had three alpacas die mysteriously and their horse withered away at the age of 1. Their vet believed it was suffering seizures because of tumours on its brain. The couple live in the heart of the contamination plume and tests have shown they have firefighting chemicals in their blood at many times the national average. Jenny and Terry Robinson. Chucky is the main antagonist of the Childs Play horror film series. Chucky is portrayed as a notorious serial killer whose spirit inhabits a fictional Good Guy. Youve got to wonder if theres clustering here the cancer cases of Cabbage Tree Road. Who needs dental enamel Today is Sour Patch Kids Day The sour, sweet, vaguely human shaped candy is experiencing an unprecedented surge in popularity, with nearly 4. It was 1979 when Xavier Roberts and five of his friends developed the Little People Originals dolls, a loveable but odd looking childrens toy that would soon. Cabbage Patch Play Along 2004' title='Cabbage Patch Play Along 2004' />Picture Max Mason Hubers. Terry Robinson 2. Six months ago we were painting fences and were watching the ground foam up in front of us. Lowe Boat Serial Number Lookup. In 2. 00. 2, Terry Robinson had a melanoma that metastasized into his lungs. His doctors were surprised usually shallow melanomas were caught before they had spread. They advised him to get his affairs in order because secondary cancers from melanoma did not respond well to chemotherapy. However the treatment worked and Mr Robinson went into remission. Mr Robinson initially did not believe his cancer could be linked to any environmental exposures, until a report found firefighters exposed to toxic chemicals at Fiskville in Victoria had a higher chance of melanoma. Eric Moxey. Picture Raymond Terrace and District Historical Society. Eric Moxey 2. 00. My dad and I and my brothers were always in the water growing up, Eric Moxeys son, Neil. Eric Moxey was a farmer who lived and worked on Cabbage Tree Road in the 1. He is remembered by neighbours as a community minded man, who was at one stage the president of the Rotary Club. Mr Moxeys son, Neil, said his father moved away because of poor drainage that left the earth waterlogged and swampy. Mr Moxey passed away of pancreatic cancer in Parkwood in Queensland. His wife, Marea Moxey, died in April. Irene Jordan. Picture Max Mason Hubers. Irene Jordan 2. 01. Of course I wonder about it. Everybody wonders about it. I am relieved I got out of there. When Irene Jordan lived on Cabbage Tree Road for five years, she thought it strange how often her horses were struck down by illness. It was after she had relocated to Tanilba Bay in the early 2. Ms Jordan was diagnosed was breast cancer. She had to undergo a double mastectomy. Her son and her sister, who both stayed with her at the Williamtown property, have both developed cancer in the last four years. Luke Jordan. Picture supplied. Luke Jordan 2. 01. They couldnt tell what type of cancer it was. As a child, Luke Jordan lived at a property on Cabbage Tree Road for a period of about 1. He would spend holidays at the acreage for three or four years after that. He used to catch frogs in the contaminated drain that ran alongside the homestead and eat from his mothers vegetable patch. Three years ago, his wife noticed a lump on his neck, which turned out to be a cancerous tumour. He has recovered after multiple operations. Lorelei Sneddon. Picture supplied. Lorelei Sneddon 2. Hodgkins lymphoma at the age of 5. Im disappointed in the authorities. If we had known, we wouldnt have had the children under the sprinklers, Ms Sneddons surviving husband, Keith. Lorelei Sneddon was a nurse who met her husband Keith, a lawyer, at a social function. The pair moved to Williamtown in 1. Cabbage Tree Road. They had chooks and would use bore water on their vegetables. When Ms Sneddon found out her non Hodgkins lymphoma was terminal, she booked a bucket list holiday with her husband to New Zealand. After a lovely dinner out on the second night, she was hospitalised. She passed away about a week later. Five of the Sneddons neighbours have had cancer in the last five years. A heavily contaminated drain runs between the properties and Mr Sneddon now wonders whether there could be a connection to the death of his wife. Liane Ryan 2. The type of cancer I got usually affects women that have not had children, but I successfully breastfed four kids. It just went bang, bang, bang is how Liane Ryan describes the period after a mammogram picked up a tumour in her breast last year. She had the tumour removed soon after and embarked on a course of radiotherapy. Ms Ryan now lives in Raymond Terrace, but between 2. Cabbage Tree Road. She grew her own vegetables and would collect eggs from the chooks. She was very shocked to discover the number of other women who have had breast cancer on the road. Gaylene Brown 2. Youve got to wonder if theres clustering here. Gaylene Brown runs a popular riding school on Cabbage Tree Road and has been at her property for the last 1. In 2. 01. 5, she suffered uncontrollable vomiting for months on end. Only a few months after she recovered with medication, a routine mammogram picked up a tumour in her breast. She does not want to blame her illness on contamination in the area without scientific proof. But she worries that if she were to become sick again, she would not be able to sell her property to fund the treatment. Weve got a gun held to our head, she said. John Hill 2. Hodgkins lymphoma at the age of 6. I got the rotten cancer here, I reckon. A lot of girls up and down the road have had the cancer. Michelles worried she will get it one day. It has been about six years since John Hill was declared cancer free, but he still flinches when asked about the chemotherapy that cured him of non Hodgkins lymphoma. He was hooked up to a bag of pus, he recalled, like injecting pure poison into your body. His wife had to leave him alone in their house on Cabbage Tree Road until the effects wore off. A week later, the process would begin again. Thats where I start crying. Id be spewing all the way to the hospital, he said. Warren Munro. Picture supplied. Warren Munro 2. 01. Im at the end of my tape measure anyway, but if I had kids, Id be really worried. Warren and Shirley Munro are from the old guard of Cabbage Tree Road, moving to the area 3. Their cows graze next to a drain that overflows in times of heavy rain. A few of them have been real sickly. Mr Munro gestures towards a bulge in the neck of one cow. He believes its developed a tumour in the last few weeks. Prostate cancer is a disease of men and dogs, according to Mr Munro. But he doesnt rule out that the contaminants could have interfered with his immune system. Everyone has the potential for it cancer but you wake up in the morning and your immune system knocks it out, he said. Leslie Tex Facer. Picture supplied. Leslie Tex Facer 2. Dads tumour did not react like normal bowel cancer tumours. The doctors believed his cancer was environmental, not hereditary,  Mr Facers daughter, Kim Leanne King. Commander Leslie Tex Facer was first diagnosed with bowel cancer in 1. His daughter Kim Leeanne King remembers how hard he battled the disease. But each time it came back more and more severe. Mr Facer spent from early in the morning until after dark outside on the familys farm, which backs onto the RAAF base and airport land. Ms King and her sister both had genetic testing to see if the family had a pre disposition towards bowel cancer. But the tests came back negative. Michelle Gilchrist. Picture Simone De Peak Michelle Gilchrist 2. When you start youre in shock. Sweet Facts for Sour Patch Kids Day. On November 1. 6, 1. Christmastime and forced to fend off a couple of bungling burglars, became an instant classic. Today, no holiday movie marathon is complete without a viewing of Home Alone, the movie that turned Macaulay Culkin into one of the biggest kid stars of all time. And while you may be able to recite its dialogue line for line, here are 2. John Hughes penned picture. So settle in and enjoy, ya filthy animals. WITHOUT UNCLE BUCK, THERED BE NO HOME ALONE. The idea for Home Alone occurred to John Hughes during the making of Uncle Buck, which also starred Macaulay Culkin. Always game to play the precocious one, theres a scene in which Culkins character interrogates a potential babysitter through a mail slot. In Home Alone, Culkin has a similar confrontation with Daniel Stern, this time via a doggie door. THE ROLE OF KEVIN WAS WRITTEN SPECIFICALLY FOR MACAULAY CULKIN. But that didnt stop director Chris Columbus from auditioning more than 1. Which really was all for naught, as Culkin nailed the role. MACAULAY WASNT THE ONLY CULKIN TO APPEAR IN THE FILM. Macaulay s younger brother Kieran also landed a part as Kevins bed wetting cousin, Fuller. Though the film marked Kierans acting debut, he has since gone on to build an impressive career for himself in movies like The Cider House Rules, Igby Goes Down, and Scott Pilgrim vs. World. 4. CASTING CULKIN TAUGHT CHRIS COLUMBUS A VERY IMPORTANT LESSON. Since Home Alone, Columbus who also wrote the scripts for Gremlins and The Goonies has gone on to become one of Hollywoods premier family friendly moviemakers as the director of Home Alone 2, Mrs. Doubtfire, and two movies in the Harry Potter franchise. But one lesson he learned from Home Alone is that when you agree to work with a kid actor, youre also agreeing to work with his or her family. I was much younger and I was really too naive to think about the family environment as well, Columbus told. The Guardian in 2. We didnt know that much about the family at the beginning as we were shooting, we learned a little more. The stories are hair raising. I was casting a kid who truly had a troubled family life. In 1. Culkins parents, who were never married, engaged in a very publicand nastylegal battle over his fortune. THE FILM IS A GUINNESS WORLD RECORD HOLDER. In its opening weekend, Home Alone topped the box office, making 1. The movie maintained its number one spot for a full 1. June of the following year. It became the highest grossing film of 1. Guinness World Record as the highest grossing live action comedy ever domestically. THE MOVIES UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS LED TO ITS TITLE BECOMING A VERB. In his book The Big Picture Who Killed Hollywood And Other Essays, two time Oscar winning screenwriter William Goldman admitted that the unexpected success of Home Alone contributed a new phrase to the Hollywood lexicon to be Home Aloned, meaning that other films suffered at the box office because of Home Alones long and successful run. More than one executive said to me, My picture did 4. Home Aloned, wrote Goldman. IT SPAWNED MORE THAN A SEQUEL. While all of the main, original cast members reprised their roles for Home Alone 2 Lost In New York with Columbus again directing a script by Hughes, the success of the original led to a full on franchise, complete with four sequels, three video games, two board games, a novelization, and other kid friendly merchandise including the Talkboy. POLAND LOVES THE MCCALLISTERS. The Secret History Of The World Jonathan Black Pdf on this page. Showings of Home Alone have become a Christmas tradition in Poland, where the film has aired on national television since the early 1. And its popularity has only increased. In 2. 01. 1 more than five million people tuned in to watch it, making it the most watched show to air during the season. THE MCCALLISTER HOME HAS BECOME A MAJOR TOURIST ATTRACTION. Located at 6. 71 Lincoln Avenue in Winnetka, Illinois, the kitchen, main staircase, and ground floor landing seen in the film were all shot in this five bedroom residence. The dining room and all other first floor rooms, with the exception of the kitchen, were shot on a soundstage. In 2. John and Cynthia Abendshien, who owned the home when it was used as one of the films locations, sold the property for 1. KEVINS TREE HOUSE WAS NOT PART OF THE DEAL. Kevins backyard tree house was not originally part of the property. It was constructed specifically for the movie and demolished once filming ended. ALL OF THE FILM WAS SHOT IN THE CHICAGO AREA. Though the main plot point is that that Mc. Callister family is in Paris while Kevins back home in Illinois, the production was shot entirely within the Chicago area. The scenes supposedly set at Paris Orly Airport were shot at OHare International Airport. And those luxurious business class seats theyre taking to Paris Those were built on the basketball court of a local high schoolthe same school where the scene in which Kevin is running through a flooded basement was filmed the basement in question was actually the schools swimming pool. ROBERT DE NIRO TURNED DOWN THE ROLE OF HARRY LIME. As did Jon Lovitz. Motorola V3x Software Programs. Then Joe Pesci swept in and made the part his own. Bonus fun fact The character is a slight homage to Orson Welles. It was the name of Welles character in Carol Reeds The Third Man. JOE PESCI GOT ALL METHOD ON MACAULAY CULKIN. In order to get the most authentic performance possible, Joe Pesci did his best to avoid Macaulay Culkin on the set so that the young actor would indeed be afraid of him. And no one would blame the young actor for being a bit petrified, as he still bears the physical scar from one accidental altercation. In the first Home Alone, they hung me up on a coat hook, and Pesci says, Im gonna bite all your fingers off, one at a time, Culkin recalled to Rule Forty Two. And during one of the rehearsals, he bit me, and it broke the skin. PESCI WASNT USED TO THE WHOLE FAMILY FRIENDLY THING. Considering that Pescis best known for playing the heavy in movies like Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and Casino, its understandable that he wasnt quite used to the whole family friendly atmosphere on the set of Home Aloneand dropped a few f bombs as a result of that. Columbus tried to curb Pescis four letter word tendency by suggesting he use the word fridge instead. DANIEL STERN HAD A FOUR LETTER WORD SLIP UP, TOO. And it wasnt cut out of the film. He utters the word s when attempting to retrieve his shoe through the doggie door look for it at the 5. DVD.  1. 6. IN REAL LIFE, HARRY AND MARV MAY NOT HAVE SURVIVED KEVINS ATTACK. BB gun shots to the forehead and groin A steaming hot iron and can of paint to the faceA flaming blowtorch to the scalp The Wet Bandits endure an awful lot of violence at the hands of a single eight year old. So much so that neither one of them should have been walkinglet alone consciousby the end of the night. In 2. 01. 2, Dr. Ryan St. Clair diagnosed the likely outcome of their injuries at The Week. While a read through of the entire article is well worth your time, here are a few of the highlights That iron should have caused a blowout fracture, leading to serious disfigurement and debilitating double vision if not repaired properly. And the blowtorch According to Dr. St. Clair, The skin and bone tissue on Harrys skull will be so damaged and rotted that his skull bone is essentially dying and will likely require a transplant.