The Passionate Eye is a Canadian television series, which airs on CBC Newsworld and CBC Television. CBC Newsworld is a 24-hour cable television news channel operated by the CBC. It is available to cable subscribers across the country and broadcasts into over 10 million homes nation-wide, as well as into some northern states in the U.S. It is the worlds third-oldest... CBC redirects here, as this is the most common use of the abbreviation. ...
The series presents documentary programming from around the world. Its current host is Michaëlle Jean. Michaëlle Jean, MA, (born 1957 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is the Governor General-designate of Canada. ...
The field of eye pathology is dying, says Robert Folberg, MD. However, his teacher and mentor, Lorenz E. Zimmerman, MD, one of the early leaders in the field, says that’s a bit of an overstatement.
Eye pathologists don’t just look at slides and describe disease, he said, noting that his lab does everything from molecular biology to sophisticated imaging that merges molecular biology with pathology.
Eye pathologists are the link between ophthalmic research and clinical care, said Hans E. Grossniklaus, MD. “We have a unique perspective in interpreting the disease process and also interpreting experimental studies that relate to the pathobiology of disease.” It is a perspective, he said, that no one else has in medicine.
Lizzy Gardiner's Killing Priscilla is a thorough examination of the making of Stephan Elliott's Eye of the Beholder, starring Ashley Judd and Ewan McGregor, which premiered in January and promptly tanked.
One would think documentaries of this kind are remoras that depend on their host sharks to survive (Hearts of Darkness' relationship to Apocalypse Now comes to mind), but Gardiner's is a film in its own right, curiously more compelling than the terrible Elliott feature.
While talking with his driver or lounging around the set, he is the quintessential star; while being submerged, pointlessly, in a car filled with cold water and floating hearts, his eyes communicate the fearful, foolish bravura that is the actor's greatest credential.