Robert Goulet Awaits Lung Transplant
Robert Goulet's legendary singing voice needs some help. From a new pair of lungs.
The 73-year-old headliner is hospitalized at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center awaiting a transplant, his Website said.
Goulet was hospitalized Sept. 30 in Las Vegas, and diagnosed with interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, it said.
According to HealthCentral.com, the condition involves a thickening or scarring of the lungs. Lung trasplants are said to be an option for patients in the "end-stage" of the disease. Goulet's own Website described the disorder as "a rapidly progressive and fatal condition."
Speaking to the Associated Press on Tuesday, Goulet's wife, Vera, said the star was sedated and on a respirator. "He can hear me, but he can't respond," she told the wire service.
Goulet's last words before being prepped for the respirator were, per Vera Goulet, "Just give me a new pair of lungs, and I'll hit the high notes until I'm 100."
According to the American Lung Association, only 25 percent of the 3,500 people on the lung-transplant waiting list in 2005 received transplants.
Of late, Goulet was on the road with his career retrospective, The Man and His Music. He last performed Sept. 20 in Syracuse, New York.
Irrevocably linked to the Kennedy White House—the era of Camelot—for his star-making turn as Lancelot in the original Broadway production of Camelot, Goulet claimed the 1962 Grammy for Best New Artist en route to a run as a top-selling crooner.
Though he has appeared in dozens of TV shows and movies, including Beetlejuice and The Naked Gun 2-1/2: The Smell of Fear, Goulet remains best known as a live performer, whether the venue be a Las Vegas showroom or a theater. Goulet was last seen on Broadway in 2005 in a revival of La Cage aux Folles.
In recent years, Goulet, who supplied the singing voice of Wheezy the Penguin in Toy Story 2, became a popular pitchman who parodied his slick, smooth Vegas style in commercials for Emerald Nuts and ESPN.
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