Every now and then, we hear about people with such extraordinary spirits who defy the odds in such remarkable ways that their life stories can renew our faith in life itself. Such people occasionally become the subjects of feature films, such as Jean-Dominique Bauby, the French editor of Elle magazine who suffered from locked-in syndrome and whose story of learning how to write through blinking was dramatized in the 2007 film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Or Christy Brown, the quadriplegic Irish artist and author who learned how to use his left foot to paint and write and whose life story was portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis in the Oscar-winning 1989 movie My Left Foot. Such cinematic immortalization may be in the offing for Paul Alexander, the polio survivor and author who managed to live
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