PULSE.Byline: Mariko Thompson LOVING GESTURE: Academy Award-winning actress Eva Marie Saint stars in a special performance of ``Love Letters'' benefiting the Epilepsy Foundation. The play, by A.R. Gurney gurney /gur·ney/ (gur´ne) a wheeled cot used in hospitals. gur·ney n. pl. gur·neys A metal stretcher with wheeled legs, used for transporting patients. , follows the lifelong relationship of Andrew and Melissa, friends since childhood, through their love letters. Saint's husband, Jeffrey Hayden, also stars in the play. Tickets for the benefit are $100, which includes a dessert reception attended by Saint and Hayden. ``Love Letters'' will be performed on Feb. 15 at 2 p.m. at the Beverly Hills Hotel The Beverly Hills Hotel is a hotel in Beverly Hills, CA, at 9641 Sunset Boulevard. It was opened on May 12, 1912 and started by Margaret J. Anderson and her son, Stanley S. Anderson, who had been managing the Hollywood Hotel. , 9641 Sunset Blvd., Beverly Hills. Call (310) 670-2870, Ext. 12, for tickets. MENTAL GYMNASTICS: Sharpen your wits and learn about the brain at the same time with ``Brain-Building Games'' and ``Building Left-Brain Power'' (Walker & Company; $14.95) by Allen D. Bragdon and David Gamon. Bragdon, editor of Games magazine and founder of the Brainwaves Center, and Gamon, who holds a doctorate in the cognitive sciences cognitive sciences The areas of medicine that study the nature and processes of mental activity–eg, neurology, psychiatry, psychology , team up to provide the latest on brain research and to challenge your mental prowess. These exercises will test your memory, spatial function, verbal skills and more. IN THE RED: Red isn't just for romance but for all matters related to the heart. The American Heart Association American Heart Association (AHA), n.pr a national voluntary health agency that has the goal of increasing public and medical awareness of cardiovascular diseases and stroke, and thereby reducing the number of associated deaths and disabilities. kicks off its ``Go Red for Women'' campaign on Feb. 1, complete with a red dress pin, to raise awareness that heart disease remains the No. 1 killer of women. In 2001, 45,863 women in California died of heart disease and stroke, more than the next five causes of death combined. To learn about ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, visit www.americanheart.org. To order a red dress pin, call (888) 694-3278. CAREGIVERS UNITE: Leeza Gibbons, host of ``Extra,'' will be the keynote speaker at the Fearless Caregiver Conference on Saturday at UCLA's Sunset Village. Sponsored by Today's Caregiver magazine, the conference will provide information and advice to caregivers. Gibbons, who lost her grandmother to Alzheimer's and whose mother also suffers from the disease, established the Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation and opened the first Leeza's Place in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , providing education, social activities and support for families impacted by memory disorders. (Plans for a Los Angeles Leeza's Place at the UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX Alzheimer's Disease Alzheimer's disease (ăls`hī'mərz, ôls–), degenerative disease of nerve cells in the cerebral cortex that leads to atrophy of the brain and senile dementia. Center are under way). The registration fee for the Fearless Caregiver Conference is $45, which includes lunch. The City of Los Angeles
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