[Right_to_die] Actor who played Dr Kevorkian wins Golden Globe

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Al Pacino Wins Golden Globe for ‘You Don’t Know Jack’
January 17, 2011

PanARMENIAN.Net - Al Pacino won a Golden Globe for best actor in a 
mini-series or television movie during the 68th Golden Globe Awards.

Mr. Pacino plays Dr. Jack Kevorkian in the HBO Films biopic entitled 
“You Don’t Know Jack,” a doctor who helps people with assisted suicide.

The Golden Globes recognizes excellence in film, television both 
domestic and foreign. The annual formal ceremony and dinner at which the 
awards are presented is a major part of the film industry’s awards 
season, which culminates each year with the Academy Awards, 
politicallyillustrated.com reported.

Jack Kevorkian is an American pathologist, right-to-die activist. He is 
best known for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die 
via physician-assisted suicide; he claims to have assisted at least 130 
patients to that end. Beginning in 1999 Kevorkian served eight years of 
a 10-to-25-year prison sentence for second-degree murder. He was 
released on parole on June 1, 2007, on condition that he would not offer 
suicide advice to any other person.

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