eye color
tallness
hair color
put on contacts
Cri Du Chat syndrome was first discovered by a Frenchman, a geneticist named Jerome Lejeune in the year 1963. He was also a pro-life pediatrician who helpe in the discovery of the connection between chromosome abnormalities and diseases. He devoted a major part of his career treating children affected by Down's syndrome.
Well I wondered the same thing a while back and upon researching ran across one of their drummers, Wally Gator Watson. I emailed him through his website and asked if he was the drummer for this song. He said no, Bernard Purdie recorded that song. So there you have it, from a very reliable source! Wally was actually being modest when he answered you. Mr. Purdie was the drummer on that recording, but Wally also contributed to that recording on the drums. Wally had just started playing for the Stairsteps. His first gig with them was at the Cheetah Club in NYC the night before they actually recorded O-o-h Child. They had Wally play as well so his name could be on the recording. I know about this because Wally and I were very dear friends for many years and were actually working on his memoirs together before he died. That story is in his memoirs. Wally spent the last 20 years or so of his life drumming for the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. Wally died in September 2010, and Mr. Purdie, whom I've never met but whom Wally had tremendous respect and admiration for, now drums for the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. The story seems to have come full circle.
Vincent is considered an in-valid. Jerome is a valid. Vincent needed Jerome's genes to work at Gattaca.
jerome is a sick name bro! kg
Vincent leaves home in Gattaca because he dreams of becoming an astronaut, but he is genetically inferior and has a heart condition. He believes he can achieve his dream by assuming the identity of Jerome, a genetically superior athlete. Leaving home and taking on Jerome's identity allows Vincent to deceive the authorities and pursue his ambition.
Because otherwise his blood would be taken as invalid, he switched it with jerome's blood
The movie Gattaca stars Ethan Hawke as Vincent "Jerome Morrow" Freemen, Jude Law as Jerome "Eugene" Morrow, and Uma Thurman as Irene Cassini. Alan Arkin is a publicized actor in Gattaca; however, it is purely for publicity purposes, as his role as Detective Hugo is a minor one.
Jude Law as Jerome Eugene Morrow in Gattaca
Jerome's medal is silver.
***MAJOR SPOILER***At the end of Gattaca, Jerome Eugene Morrow committed suicide. He managed to climb into the furnace where Vincent Freedman had burned his (Vincent's) cells and turned it on, thus killing himself and destroying all evidence that there was more than one Jerome Morrow.
Eugene
Vincent is considered an in-valid. Jerome is a valid. Vincent needed Jerome's genes to work at Gattaca. Vincent is now a "borrowed ladder" (a play on words referring to both the structure of an un-coiled DNA strand and the idiom of altitude as social status)
Jerome dies after Vincent goes into space and after he supplies him with more than a lifetimes supply of everything he will need to keep his identity a secret. Jerome goes into the incinerator where Vincent burns all of his skin and hair samples before going to work. He sits in the incinerator and then burns himself to death, sitting in the incinerator with his Olympic silver medal for swimming.
In the movie "Gattaca" it is common for parents to engineer their children before birth and have them possess whatever favorable characteristics they favor, such as physical stamina or mental stability. Vncent was NOT engineered this way, but rather conceived naturally by his parents. He was born with a high probability of developing heart defects as a result (passed on genetically, we assume), and is seen as too imperfect to really succeed in such a society of perfect beings unlike himself. He buys Jerome's identity so that when screened he will appear to be perfect and will in turn have a chance at becoming an astronaut as he has always dreamed.