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  • June 2008

    • Quaid to Hollywood: I'm Outta Here

      newser  |  OK!  |  Jun 16, 08 1:03 PM CDT

      Quaid to Hollywood: I'm Outta Here

      Actor Dennis Quaid is heading for the hills—no, make that the plains—of Texas with his family, OK! reports. He’s relocating to his hometown, Houston, to be nearer friends and family, Quaid says, not quitting the business. More »

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      California  • film  • Texas  • Hollywood  • family  • celebrity parents  • Houston  • Dennis Quaid  • relocation

  • April 2008

    • People Not Smart Enough

      newser  |  Rotten Tomatoes  |  Apr 11, 08 1:45 PM CDT

      People Not Smart Enough

      Critics like the big-name actors in family serio-comedy Smart People —especially Dennis Quaid, who stars as a cranky professor with much to learn about people—but think they might have been smarter to choose a different script. Screenwriter Mark Jude Poirier "is aiming for Scrabulous dialogue but his movie is barely of Boggle quality," Carrie Rickey writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer . More »

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      movie  • film  • movie review  • Sarah Jessica Parker  • independent film  • Dennis Quaid  • Ellen Page

  • March 2008

    • Quaid Speaks Out on Medical Mistakes

      newser  |  CBS  |  Mar 15, 08 1:11 PM CDT

      Quaid Speaks Out on Medical Mistakes

      Dennis Quaid has gone on record about the frightening ordeal of his newborn twins receiving massive overdoses of blood thinners, and now he's going on 60 Minutes to ratchet up his information campaign. Quaid's interview, which will be broadcast tomorrow evening, uses his own harrowing story to highlight medical errors that kill 100,000 people a year in the US. "Our kids are bleeding from every place that they've punctured," he recalled. "It was blood everywhere."  More »

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      Heparin  • Baxter International  • overdose  • Dennis Quaid  • Kimberly Quaid  • Zoe Grace Quaid  • Thomas Boone Quaid

  • February 2008

    • Action Makes a Good Point

      newser  |  Metacritic  |  Feb 22, 08 2:20 PM CST

      Action Makes a Good Point

      It may lack depth, but critics admit that Vantage Point packs a lot of excitement. The thriller, which begins by showing the same assassination from eight different perspectives, "fails the 'reality test' but maintains a certain intensity for its entire running length," writes James Berardinelli of ReelViews.com. "It's entertaining in the same way that an episode of 24 is entertaining." More »

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      movie review  • action movie  • guy movies  • Dennis Quaid  • Vantage Point

  • January 2008
  • December 2007

    • Quaids Sue Drug Firm Over OD

      newser  |  Chicago Tribune  |  Dec 5, 07 9:00 AM CST

      Quaids Sue Drug Firm Over OD

      Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife filed a lawsuit against Baxter International, maker of the blood thinner Heparin, after their newborn twins nearly died of an overdose, the Chicago Tribune reports. The couple said Baxter was negligent because it packaged two different strengths of the drug, one a thousand times more concentrated than the other, in similar vials. More »

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      lawsuit  • drug companies  • Heparin  • Baxter International  • drug overdose  • infants  • Dennis Quaid  • medical errors

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