Still Alice director Richard Glatzer hospitalized
Still Alice co-director Richard Glatzer has been hospitalized after suffering severe respiratory problems.
Glatzer's filmmaking and life partner Wash Westmoreland took to his Facebook page on Sunday (15Feb15) to explain the director began experiencing breathing problems on Friday (13Feb15).
Glatzer, who was diagnosed with neurological disease ALS in 2011,
was taken to a Los Angeles-area medical center, where he was
immediately intubated just before he went into cardiac arrest.
Westmoreland reveals his partner was "legally dead for 15 minutes",
but doctors were able to save him. He is still in the hospital,
where he is slowly getting better.
Glatzer and Westoreland, who also co-directed and co-wrote
Alzheimer’s drama Still Alice, were scheduled to attend the
upcoming Academy Awards on Sunday (22Feb15) to support the film's
star Julianne Moore, who is the frontrunner in the Best Actress
category, but Westmoreland fears he will be in the hospital next
weekend, writing, "So looks like we’ll be watching the Oscars from
the hospital room amidst the beeping machines.
"Not so glamorous but I wouldn't have it any other way. And Richard
will be alive to see it."