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  • Birth Place: Detroit, MI
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 06/28/1946, Cancer
  • Date of Death: 05/20/1989
  • Profession: Actor; comedian; writer
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  • Joel Siegel, the Ultimate Survivor | Today's News: Our Take | 4/1/2004
    There's no telling how many cancer patients have been inspired to carry on by Good Morning America movie critic Joel Siegel's epic, public battles with the disease. Nonetheless, when he recently was given the Gilda Radner Courage Award, "I said right up front in my little [acceptance] speech, 'I don't think I did anything courageous. I was diagnosed with cancer, and I did what the doctors told me'," the 60-year-old explains to TV Guide Online. "It's like if you're being held hostage and a guy puts a gun to your head and says, 'If you move, I'll shoot,' and you don't move, you're not being courageous." We beg to differ, so we asked the genial cineast to share his story. TV Guide Online: You had both colon and lung cancer — that's quite a one-two punch. What kept you in the fight?Joel Siegel: It's hard to talk about this stuff and not sound like a Hallmark card. There was a whole series of coincidences. I was diagnosed with cancer two weeks to read more

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Postcards From The Edge (Music/Lyrics Composer) 1990 Movie
Haunted Honeymoon (Actor - Vickie Pearle) 1986 Movie
Movers And Shakers (Actor - Livia Machado) 1985 Movie
The Woman In Red (Actor - Ms. Milner) 1984 Movie
Hanky-Panky (Actor - Kate Hellman) 1982 Movie

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Retro Minute: August 2, 1979
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Today in History for May 20th
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