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All the days of her life
NEW YORK — It's best not to get into an argument about past events with Marilu Henner. You will definitely lose. The actress is hard-wired with the ability to instantly recall facts that are decades old.
"What I have is known as Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory. It's like a fancy name," she says, laughing. "They don't call it hyperthymesia anymore because that sounded like a disease."
Henner, who found fame with the sitcom "Taxi" and went on to star on Broadway and television and write books, has basically superior recall. Her nicknames growing up were "Memory Kid," ''Memory Girl" and the computer "UNIVAC."
"To this day, my siblings will say, 'Marilu, do a week from our childhood.' And I'll just pick a random week and go through all the days that we went through," she says.
Her skills include correctly identifying the day of the week for any given date. Ask her what day was, say, Aug. 9, , and she'll instantly say "Saturday" and tell you about
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Marilu Henner, X’74, can remember every single day of her life since she was 12 years old in She can recall almost every day back to age seven. In her earliest memories, she’s still a baby.
For decades Henner—nicknamed the Memory Kid and Univac, after an early computer—sought the perfect analogy to explain her baffling memory. “You know how a card catalog works?” she used to säga. When VHS tapes became commonplace, she talked about a tejp that she could cue. Then the DVD was invented, and she had the perfect metaphor: her brain had a en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film selection function.
When she thinks of a certain year—say, —the major dates come in first. “I see, oh yeah, Christmas was on a Saturday. My birthday was on a Tuesday. And it just starts filling in, filling in, filling in,” she says. “Simultaneous little videos are playing next to each other, all these days—well, that year, Some of them are a little dark and haven’t come in fully yet, but if I sat here for like 15 minutes, I could do every
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Marilu Henner
A vivacious red-haired actress known for her Midwestern sass, Marilu Henner starred in several Broadway plays like "Grease" before landing her career-defining role of tough New York cabbie Elaine Nardo on the classic sitcom "Taxi" (ABC, ). Although Henner was never nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on the series, she was made an honorary New York cabbie and achieved through this one series, television immortality as the only female in a legendary ensemble cast.
A popular fixture of tabloids for relationships with famous men like John Travolta, everyone's favorite guy's gal parlayed her sitcom success by co-starring in feature films like the campy favorite "Johnny Dangerously" () and "Perfect" () and guest-starring on innumerable television shows throughout the s and into the next decade. She also parlayed her interest in health and fitness into a new career, co-writing Marilu Henner's Total Health Makeover in and continuing to churn out nonfiction healthy-life