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LOS ANGELES -- It was around midnight when Steve Hideg made a trip to his bathroom, got dizzy and took a fall. "I hit my head over here," Hideg told me, pointing to the edge of his bathroom sink. He lay on the floor next to the bathtub for about 20 minutes, hoping to regain his strength and get back on his feet. Hideg, 91, is blind in one eye and deaf in one ear from injuries suffered when ...
LOS ANGELES -- It was around midnight when Steve Hideg made a trip to his bathroom, got dizzy and took a fall.
"I hit my head over here," Hideg told me, pointing to the edge of his bathroom sink. He lay on the floor next to the bathtub for about 20 minutes, hoping to regain his strength and get back on his feet.
Hideg, 91, is blind in one eye and deaf in one ear from injuries suffered when bombs rained on Budapest during World War II. In recent years he's become shaky on his feet, and he's taken several falls in his one-bedroom apartment in East Hollywood.
But the one last August was a bad one.
Photographer Francine Orr heard about it and alerted me. We'd collaborated on a in 2017, when we learned the jazz drummer and band leader's
