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Article: Amnesia: is it for real? Recent movies like 50 First Dates probably have you wondering about memory loss. Forget most of what you have seen.(What You're Dying To Know About)
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- Cosmopolitan
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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* Memory loss seems to be the hot topic onscreen, with Drew Barrymore putting Adam Sandier through 50 First Dates (in the flick, she suffers from a rare condition in which she wakes up every morning with amnesia) and Jim Carrey blotting out painful memories of his ex in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. And this month, Matt Damon returns in The Bourne Supremacy, about a hunky secret agent with one teensy problem: He can't remember who he is.
All of which leave you, the viewer, sitting there in the dark, looking up at the screen and asking yourself, Could that ever happen to me?
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