BRAIN: Billy Hilfiger in the news

[Keith Henderson]

Paul...

>Billy Hilfiger cropped up in "The People Column" of my local paper (The
>Roanoke Times) this morning, much to my surprise.  Here is the piece:
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>        Designer Tommy Hilfiger is preoccupied with something more
>important than fashion these days.  His brother, Billy, is trying to
>beat brain cancer.
>        "My last MRI looked great, and I feel good," Billy Hilfiger told
>the New York Daily News.
>        Hilfiger had brain surgery in December, shortly after his cancer
>was diagnosed.  He underwent chemotherapy every four weeks for three
>months and then radiation every day during May and June.
>        Billy Hilfiger, 42, plays in two rock bands and runs a small
>urban landscaping company.
>        "When I go to jobs, I meet janitors and other building employees
>wearing Tommy jerseys, and they say to me: 'You're Tommy's brother?
>Why are you doing this?' They can't believe I like working."
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>
>I'm surprised the Brain Surgeons were not mentioned as one of those "two
>rock bands."  Go figure.

Surprising because of the obvious irony, you mean??

This certainly has to be an item that makes it's way into the syndicated
'News of the Weird' I'd say.  Cozy Powell's bizarre fatal accident while on
the telephone was a recent item, and this is more bizarre than that.

I must not have been paying much attention to tBS threads then, as this is
the first I've heard of Billy's condition.  At least things are going well
for him now.

Keith H. (FAA)

P.S.  What's the other one Billy plays in...I seem to remember hearing
something about another tBS-related group, but have forgotten.