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	National MS Society \| Society News: April 2004 - Teri Garr Chair of WAMS
		In this new role, the Society applauds Teri Garr's courage in bringing national attention to MS and her work in educating the public about both the challenges of life with MS and the many breakthroughs available in treating the disease.
		Garr assumed the mantle of her current volunteer position before some 700 prominent women executives at the WAMS luncheon held April 29th at the Wyndam Hotel in Philadelphia.
		Since Teri announced publicly that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, she has become a leading advocate in raising awareness for MS and the latest treatments for the disease.
	www.nationalmssociety.org /SocietyNews-garr_wams.asp (901 words)

	USATODAY.com - Teri Garr's 19 years with MS: 'I feel better' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Garr is speaking out now because since June she has been on a new drug called Rebif, an interferon treatment given to decrease MS attacks and delay the onset of physical disability.
		The daughter of a vaudeville actor and a Rockette dancer, Garr began her career dancing with the San Francisco Ballet at age 16 and appeared as a go-go dancer in nine Elvis Presley movies.
		Garr says her "drop foot," or paralysis, was a symptom of the MS.
	www.usatoday.com /life/2002-10-08-garr-ms_x.htm (512 words)

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		One challenge Teri Garr says she doesn't need is her friends focusing on the dehabilitating effects of multiple sclerosis.
		Garr, 53, has been dealing with the disease since she was diagnosed 20 years ago.
		Garr is a paid ambassador for MS Lifelines, a support service for people living with MS and for their families, which is funded by Serono and Pfizer.
	www.mult-sclerosis.org /news/Jul2003/MoreOnTeriGarr.html (985 words)

	E! Online News - Teri Garr: Yes, I Have MS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Now, Garr has not only decided to come forward and admit she has multiple sclerosis, but she has signed on to speak out on behalf of MS Lifelines, a patient service and support program.
		Garr, who is now a "a paid ambassador" for MS Lifelines (which is funded by Serono and Pfizer, the companies that produce drugs used to treat the illness) held a press conference Wednesday in New York to reveal she has been battling MS for nearly 20 years.
		When Garr played Phoebe's mother a few years ago on Friends, fans noticed her favoring one side and the MS whispers began anew.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/Pf/0,1527,10649,00.html (728 words)

	CNN.com
		Teri Garr is being treated for her multiple sclerosis with a drug which was approved by the FDA in March.
		GARR: You ever heard the word "rationalization?" I just -- if I went to see like "The Nutcracker" or "The Bolshoi," or some ballet I'd be sitting in the audience going -- even before the MS -- I used to be able to do that, I can't do that now, I can do other things.
		GARR: But don't let her sleep past 11:30 because then she won't go down for her afternoon nap, which is at 1:30.
	transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0210/08/lkl.00.html (6519 words)

	National MS Society \| Teri Garr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Teri Garr receives National MS Society's Shining Star Award for her courage and conviction in support of the MS cause.
		Since Garr announced publicly that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, she has become a leading advocate in raising awareness for MS and the latest treatments for the disease.
		Teri who lives in California with her daughter, is at work on her autobiography which will be released this fall.
	www.nationalmssociety.org /spotlight-garr.asp (587 words)

	upstatebeat.com: The Triumph of Teri Garr
		But when Teri Garr comes to the Hyatt Regency downtown this Saturday, the event will be noteworthy for so much more than the mere presence of the lovely and talented thespian whose talents soared in such memorable films as Young Frankenstein, Tootsie and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
		Teri Garr really is the star of the show as she delivers a very personal message about her experiences.
		Teri Garr is an artist whose work has given meaning and substance to appreciative audiences over a long, storied career.
	www.metrobeat.net /gbase/Expedite/Content?oid=oid:2951 (1847 words)

	Teri Garr Becomes MS LifeLines™ Ambassador
		I'm Teri Garr and I'm thrilled to be an Ambassador for MS LifeLines — an educational and support service for people living with MS and their families.
		She was born in Hollywood, the daughter of Edward Garr, a Broadway stage and film actor and Phyllis Garr, a dancer.
		Teri Garr is a paid ambassador for MS LifeLines, an educational and support service for people living with MS and their families.
	www.rebif.com /news/rd312.jsp (586 words)

	Teri Garr News
		Teri Garr was reluctant to reveal that she had a "scum-sucking pig of a disease" because she thought her movie offers would vanish.
		Television and film actress Teri Garr visited Jacksonville on Thursday to help raise both money and public awareness for multiple sclerosis, a disease she has battled for decades.
		To see Teri Garr onstage recently at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colo., you wouldn't know she is battling one of the most debilitating and least understood illnesses...
	www.topix.net /who/teri-garr (292 words)

	JS Online: Teri Garr Takes Five
		In 1983, actress Teri Garr was living in New York City and noticed that she was tripping during her daily jogs in Central Park.
		Teri Garr, the star of 'Tootsie' and 'Mr.
		Now an advocate for those with MS - she's a paid MS Lifelines ambassador - Garr was in Milwaukee on Wednesday to speak at the Women Against Multiple Sclerosis Initiative luncheon at the Pfister Hotel.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/gen/jul03/157307.asp (574 words)

	Actress Teri Garr is Battling MS :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		On CNN's Larry King Live, Garr, best known for her hilarious performances in the comedies Young Frankenstein and Tootsie (for which she received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress), admitted she has been battling the nerve disease for nearly 20 years.
		It took several years for Garr to get a firm diagnosis because the symptoms were hard to detect.
	www.hollywood.com /news/detail/article/1628474 (312 words)

	13WHAM-TV \|\| Rochester - Teri Garr Talks About MS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Teri Garr Talks About MS Rochester, NY (10/24/03) - Actress Teri Garr in town was in Rochester Thursday night sharing her personal struggle with multiple sclerosis.
		Garr, who was diagnosed with the disease in 1999, travels the country talking about the need for early treatment and proactively managing the disease.
		Garr said there are a lot of misconceptions about ms.
	www.13wham.com /news/local/story.aspx?content_id=56713C14-A247-404A-8F9A-030DA8FD2EB3 (171 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Teri Garr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Teri Garr found early visibility with a mixture of dramatic and comic roles before maturing, so to speak, into her persona as a smart comedienne typecast as an eccentric ditz.
		Garr became ubiquitous as a TV movie actress, ushering in a slightly more earnest period of her career, as well as a drop in prestige.
		Garr also seemed to symbolically pass the torch to Kudrow, her heir apparent in lovable flightiness.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/22930/bio.jhtml (601 words)

	FilmStew.com • Teri Garr Reveals She Has MS
		Teri Garr Reveals She Has MS Oscar nominated actress says she has been suffering with the symptoms for the past 19 years.
		Garr has had a long and successful career as a comic actress.
		Garr has also been working as a paid ambassador for MS Lifelines, a patient service program dedicated to assist persons living with MS and their caregivers.
	www.filmstew.com /Content/Article.asp?ContentID=4311 (253 words)

	As acting jobs dwindle, Teri Garr takes up her pen
		Although Garr had MS symptoms as early as 1983, when she started to trip while jogging, her case was so unusual ("I went to, like, 11 doctors") that she wasn't diagnosed until 1999.
		It's tough not getting jobs, but Garr knows that MS is only part of the reason her phone stopped ringing.
		Garr is writing her book with Henriette Mantel, an actress and stand-up comic who helps with her MS LifeLines speeches.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/01/07/DDGD343TKC1.DTL&type=printable (946 words)

	Garr, Teri - Biography
		By the age of 13, Teri had already made her debut as a professional dancer with a San Francisco-based ballet company, which led to her first television appearance on the music/dance show Shindig.
		Teri is also well known for her movie roles in The Black Stallion, One From The Heart, After Hours, The Escape Artist, Firstborn, Let It Ride, Full Moon in Blue Water, Out Cold, Short Time, Waiting for the Light, Mom and Dad Save the World, Michael, A Perfect Alibi, and Robert Altman's Pret-A-Porter.
		In October 2002, Teri announced publicly that she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
	my.webmd.com /content/Biography/8/101467.htm (447 words)

	Teri Garr
		Born December 11, 1949 to actor Eddie Garr and wardrobe mistress Phyllis Garr, it was clear from the beginning where this little girl was headed.
		Teri first came to the general public consciousness in the 1977 sci-fi blockbuster Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
		By the mid-80s, Teri's bad choices seemed to be catching up with her.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/where_are_they_now/55485 (507 words)

	Forbidden Science: Teri Garr admits to MS
		Garr has admitted that she is afraid that she will not get work and this is why she downplays her MS.
		Garr needs to become better informed about this disease if she is continue in this capacity.
		Garr will see this message and not be so self-serving when so many others are suffering.
	www.forbiddenscience.com /archives/000077.html (330 words)

	Teri Garr UN official web page
		Teri's primary mission in her public life is to BEAT M.S. Whenever you can, please help her in that mission.
		Something new: Teri Garr's new link to the drug company which is helping her fight MS.
		While Teri is generally known for her work in comedy, she has also had some fine dramatic work too.
	members.aol.com /JONDC9/tg.html (580 words)

	My Presley Gallery - Teri Garr
		Teri Garr has been seen in over 50 films and numerous television shows, including Star Trek.
		Teri began her career as a dancer and danced professionally with the San Francisco Ballet when she was 13 years old.
		In Viva Las Vegas, Teri is one of the dancing students at the University of Las Vegas when Elvis and Ann-Margret perform on stage and in the "climb" scene at the club.
	www.angelfire.com /ca4/mypresleygallery/page49tg.html (531 words)

	Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
		Garr made her on-screen debut as a go-go dancer in the Elvis Presley film Fun in Acapulco and then followed it up with similar roles in the Elvis films Kissin' Cousins and Viva Las Vegas.
		Garr's next roles included a recurring spot on The Sonny and Cher Show and a small role in the Monkee's 1968 film, Head.
		Garr; she had supporting roles in both Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation and Mel Brooks ' Young Frankenstein.
	www.tnt.tv /title/0,,4492-1601,00.html (210 words)

	Teri Garr pictures, posters, photos, interviews and wallpapers.
		She was the daughter of Eddie Garr, a Broadway stage and film actor, and Phyllis Garr, a dancer.
		While still an infant her family moved from Hollywood to New Jersey, but after the death of her father when she was eleven her family returned to Hollywood, where her mother became a wardrobe mistress for movies and television.
		While Garr's dancing can be seen in nine Elvis Presley movies, her first speaking role in motion pictures was in the 1968 feature _Head (1968)_ (qv), starring The Monkees.
	www.perfectpeople.net /biopage.php3/cid=946 (417 words)

	Lifetimetv.com: Intimate Portrait (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		But whatever the role, comedic talent Teri Garr lights up the screen with her warmth and charm.
		In October 2002, Garr admitted that she has been suffering from multiple sclerosis for the past 20 years.
		Garr appeared as a go-go dancer in several Elvis Presley movies.
	www.lifetimetv.com /shows/ip/portraits/9912/9912_index.html (167 words)

	Teri Garr's Starring Role in the MS Fight (washingtonpost.com)
		Cause celeb Teri Garr has been crusading for better biomedicine ever since she revealed last October that she suffers from multiple sclerosis.
		Actress Teri Garr says she lived with MS symptoms for 20 years before her diagnosis.
		Garr started out as a dancer, memorably played Dustin Hoffman's long-suffering girlfriend in the 1982 hit "Tootsie," and these days appears on "Friends" as the mother of Lisa Kudrow, a comic actress who reminds us of Teri Garr.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A27966-2003Jun24¬Found=true (817 words)

	Teri Garr
		Teri Garr was born December 11, 1949 in Lakewood, Ohio.
		Oneof her best known roles was as Sandy in Tootsie, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress in 1982.
		Garr’s father, Eddie, was a vaudeville performer with a gift for impersonations.
	celebrities.adoption.com /famous/teri-garr.html (202 words)

	C-Health: Your Health and Wellness Source
		Garr is coy about her age, but she did say that her symptoms began in her 30s.
		(Garr said she has a weakness on one side of the body.) A minority of MS sufferers have a type known as chronic-progressive in which there is a gradual worsening of symptoms with no remission.
		When Garr discovered she had MS, her reaction was a proactive one: "Well, what can we do about it?" was what she wanted to know.
	chealth.canoe.ca /columns.asp?columnistid=7&articleid=14305 (923 words)

	A moment with ... Teri Garr, actress
		Oscar-nominated actress Teri Garr is visiting Seattle to help raise awareness about multiple sclerosis, a disease that attacks the central nervous system.
		An estimated 7,000 residents of this state have MS, which is especially prevalent in areas above the 37th parallel, according the Greater Washington Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
		Garr will speak at a fund-raising luncheon for the local chapter on Thursday at the Washington State Trade and Convention Center.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /tv/145632_moment28.html (422 words)

	Elvis' Women: Teri Garr
		Teri can be seen as a dancer in the films listed above, usually in a "crowd" scene, or in back of Elvis on stage (as in "Roustabout" below).
		Teri doin' the "Barefoot Ballad" in Kissin' Cousins
		After Elvis, Teri went on to make a couple of memorable guest shots, first on "Star Trek", as Roberta Lincoln in "Assignment: Earth", and around the same time, in the Monkees' psychedelic classic, Head (1968).
	elviswomen.greggers.net /garrteri.htm (519 words)

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