October 21, 2008
You know what makes Charlie Lustman warm and fuzzy inside? A musical about cancer! Lustman, a 43-year-old musician known around Los Angeles for being the owner of the Silent Movie Theatre, put the theatre on the market in 2006 and wanted to get back to his musical roots. Then he was blindsided with news that he had a rare form of bone cancer. "They sawed my jaw off," he told the Los Angeles Times. "I have a mouth piece now. It is supplementing the jaw bone. This thing goes all the way to the back so you can see my nasal cavity when I take it out. I take it out four or five times a day to clean [after] I eat. I have the cleanest mouth in town."

