Archive for the ‘Hall of Fame’ Category
Saturday, September 8th, 2007
Hall of Fame is a new category at Eyes Apart. I've already featured several famous people with strabismus on the site. I'm adding them to this category, and I plan to add more from time to time.
The photo on this page is a Rembrandt painting. I have ...
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Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Monet's vision reached a lot deeper than his eyes could see.
Professor Michael Marmor, an Ophthalmologist who led a team of researchers at Stanford University, has been quoted in Times Online as saying that the beloved artist Monet "derided the developing abstraction in art." Yet as he aged, Monet's paintings ...
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Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
In an interview with Joel Siegel (ABC News), movie actor Forest Whitaker's strabismus is quite noticeable. Whitaker received accolades recently for his role in "The Last King of Scotland" where he portrayed Idi Amin.
But Starpulse News Blog reports that Whitaker is considering fixing his droopy left eye ...
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Saturday, October 14th, 2006
Forest Whitaker suffers from strabismus. Yet he is currently receiving wide-spread applause for his performance as Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland."
Here are some quotes about Forest Whitaker:
"With his jug ears, hulking physique and lazy eye, Forest Whitaker always has been an unlikely movie star.... In ...
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
[See photo credit at end of article]
Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart led the USC Trojans to a national Championship in 2004 before signing on as an NFL Quarterback with the Arizona Cardinals earlier this year. Yet Matt Leinart has strabismus just like us.
Matt had strabismus surgery when he was ...
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