Actor Ryan Reynolds is known to be rather good at breaking the ice. He took to his concours-twitter.htm">twitter account, on the day he scatted his father's ashes, and had a rather light hearted comment on the day. He wrote: "A family having a picnic about two hundred yards downwind, ate like, half my Dad's ashes this morning." Reynolds dad, James, died from Parkinson's disease last october. In 2011, Reynolds wrote an op-ed piece for the Huffington post and said: ""Witnessing my Dad suffer over the years galvanized my need to step up. Those affected by Parkinson's wage a similar war in their own bodies every single day...They continue day in and day out, silently battling away in the most personal of struggles."