{"id":3529,"date":"2015-11-04T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2015-11-04T11:00:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T18:00:27","slug":"brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-cancer-courage-and-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/04\/brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-cancer-courage-and-rage\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Cancer, Courage and Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TcDFFj9JlNI\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> Cancer has taken so many people I&#8217;ve loved and admired. This new interview with two hugely admired and much-loved celebrities reminded me of how deeply it affects us all\u00a0. \u00a0We know, in our heads, that the presence of beauty, courage, fame and an amazing marriage and family can&#8217;t keep the monster at bay. \u00a0Neither can being the most respected broadcast journalist of the past 30 years; Tom Brokaw had cancer too. \u00a0So did my husband, by the way. \u00a0Thankfully, they are still with us. \u00a0But it&#8217;s a roll of the dice, not fame or fortune, or even education, that&#8217;s made it so.<\/p>\n<p>So why are we not all enraged? \u00a0Why do we refuse to keep this plague at (or at least near) the top of our agenda? \u00a0We\u00a0face so much right now: attacks on women, racial tension, income inequality, climate change, declining education systems and infrastructure &#8211; fill in your own particular blank. \u00a0But no matter how we feel about any of these issues, we all grieve for those we&#8217;ve lost to cancer; we all long for their presence in our lives and know that it is just a lack of knowledge that took them from us.<\/p>\n<p>No family is untouched; the lucky ones face it among older members but so many lose loved ones &#8212; family <em>and<\/em> friends, well before they&#8217;ve seen their children grow up, or get married or find their way in the world\u00a0and\u00a0before they&#8217;ve exhausted the gifts that brought so much to all of us. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been thinking about them a great deal recently, and have felt, for some time, a need to honor them once again here. \u00a0Many died before there was an Internet but I&#8217;ve added links where I could.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We were young journalists together:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/31\/margot-adler-sang-at-my-wedding\/\" target=\"_blank\">Margot Adler<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mary Halleron<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1998\/06\/27\/arts\/mark-harrington-51-leader-of-the-msnbc-news-station.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Harrington<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shorensteincenter.org\/about-us\/history\/joan-shorenstein-barone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joan Shorenstein<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Teachers, mentors, friends:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/09\/fini_bi_bi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Bradley<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1984\/09\/26\/obituaries\/dredwardjhornick-a-clinical-psychiatrist.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Hornick<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/12\/farewell-to-eden-lipson-a-great-mother-editor-and-friend\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eden Lipson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maggie Morton<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddlerplanet.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Susan Neibur\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Dearest:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/19\/my-friend-laurie-the-post-i-never-wanted-to-write\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laurie Becklund<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/ws\/?pid=58106\" target=\"_blank\">Bob<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2000\/01\/25\/us\/bob-squier-is-dead-at-65-master-of-political-imagery.html\" target=\"_blank\">Squier<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cancer has taken so many people I&#8217;ve loved and admired. This new interview with two hugely admired and much-loved celebrities reminded me of how deeply it affects us all\u00a0. \u00a0We know, in our heads, that the presence of beauty, courage, fame and an amazing marriage and family can&#8217;t keep the monster at bay. \u00a0Neither can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/04\/brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-cancer-courage-and-rage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Cancer, Courage and Rage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,27,28,2764,7,1917,60,97],"tags":[2596,3472,3469,3467,1211,838,1527,2467,641,49,3432,3474,3167,2727,3471,3470,73,3421,911,3468,3473,1151,261,470],"class_list":["post-3529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-current-affairs","category-film","category-i-seem-to-write-a-lot-of-obits","category-life","category-nablopomo","category-science","category-television","tag-angelina-jolie","tag-attacks-on-women","tag-bob-squier","tag-brad-pitt","tag-breast-cancer","tag-cancer","tag-climate-change","tag-ed-bradley","tag-eden-lipson","tag-education","tag-income-inequality","tag-infrastructure","tag-laurie-becklund","tag-margot-adler","tag-mark-harrington","tag-mary-halloran","tag-movies","tag-nablopomo","tag-news","tag-ovarian-cancer","tag-racial-tension","tag-tom-brokaw","tag-tv","tag-womens-rights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-UV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3533,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions\/3533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}