Dear Hollywood:
Alzheimer's Disease is not funny. It's too soon.
Thank you,
Everybody in the world who knows someone with Alzheimer's Disease
According to #NBC Nightly News, Will Ferrell is set to star in a movie about President Reagan in the White House while the President has Alzheimer's Disease. My guess is that absolutely no one associated with this film was close to anyone with this devastating disease or they would not think it was funny.
I hope these dummies are not confusing how a family might use humor to get through the slow torture of the disease with thinking the person suffering from the disease is funny.
It's not funny when your mom doesn't recognize you or when you have to start giving her a shower while she fights you because she never wants to wash herself. It's not funny when the police call you to tell you your dad is at the police station because, while he was only going three minutes from the house, he got lost and ended up in the next town over. It's not funny when the smartest most accomplished person you ever knew can't figure out how to turn on the television. None of it is funny.
Perhaps ten years from now when there is an instant cure for this disease, we'll all think it's a laugh riot for President Reagan to be portrayed that way, but in the meantime, don't be a bigger asshole than you already are Will Ferrell.