All the necessary talk of life on the set and behind the scenes of Family Ties is there, as well as few celebrity stories, such as a night out with Princess Diana and a cutting interlude with Cher. Though he may be known primarily for his work as actor, movies and movie making are not why Fox put pen to paper. In Lucky Man, Fox effectively enables his readers to understand many of the problems facing himself and other Parkinson’s Disease patients, from the debilitating physical effects of the disease to the amazing inner support of the PD community.įox’s book is not just another Hollywood cry for attention hidden in the form of an autobiography. Three years later, this ongoing story takes a new turn for his admirers, from discovery and a sense of mourning for Fox to feeling empowered by his emotional leap from despair to acceptance. Walters told the apprehensive Fox that the public’s right to know was about more than just “morbid curiosity,” and offered the encouragement that “people care about youthis is a learning experience for everyone.”Īnd she was right. Fox revealed to the public that for the past seven years, he’d been suffering from Young Onset Parkinson’s Disease. Though People magazine broke the story not long before, it was during an interview with Barbara Walters in 1998 that Michael J.

Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to idenitify ourselves as citizens of that other place.” Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Urn:oclc:864766010 Scandate 20100929211721 Scanner scribe3.la.archive.“Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. OL5745510W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.50 Pages 284 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1401397808 Urn:lcp:luckymanmemoir00foxm:epub:71ef1f6f-57e8-4045-bc05-eb0f7c235ceb Extramarc NYU Bobcat Foldoutcount 0 Identifier luckymanmemoir00foxm Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3mw36m2t Isbn 0786867647Ġ2010038 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:40:23 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA120603 Boxid_2 CH106801 Camera Canon 5D City New York DonorĪlibris Edition 1.

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