What Happened at the World Premiere of Third Base Surprised Even Us We knew people were excited about the world premiere of Boys of Summer: Third Base at the World Parkinson Congress in Phoenix. We did not expect what happened next. The line to get in snaked across the conference floor. Some knew about the first three films, others were coming in blank. When the doors opened, the seats were quickly filled. The spillover audience lined the walls. Others sat on the floor. By the time the lights...

My dad has lived with Parkinson’s disease for more than 25 years. Like many people, when he was first diagnosed, we mostly thought about tremors, stiffness, and slowness. The things we could see. But Parkinson’s is so much more than the visible things. A few years ago, my dad began having hallucinations. Dan & Robert Cochrane at the last A's game at the Oakland Coliseum. More about the Boys of Summer documentary series at www.bosmovie.com. Sometimes they were almost harmless: A cat sitting...

There are wonderful films about Parkinson’s disease (PD). Important, brave, educational, and inspiring films. But there has never been another documentary series about PD like Boys of Summer. Four films spanning 22 years of lived history with this stupid, poorly understood, beast of a disease. 2004 We didn't set out to make history. We just kept coming back to tell more story, mostly because PD has refused to leave. Michael J. Fox has said his foundation is around until PD isn’t. Us too. On...