![]() ![]() ![]() Being diagnosed at the heartbreakingly young age of 29 had also knocked the ego out of his career ambitions, so he could do smaller things he was proud of – Stuart Little, the TV sitcom Spin City – as opposed to the big 90s comedies, such as Doc Hollywood, that were too often a waste of his talents. Parkinson’s, he said, had made him quit drinking, which in turn had probably saved his marriage. He called his 2002 memoir Lucky Man, and he told interviewers that Parkinson’s is a gift, “ albeit one that keeps on taking”.ĭuring our interview, surrounded by the memorabilia (guitars, Golden Globes) he has accrued over the course of his career, he talked about how it had all been for the best. Ever since 1998, when Fox went public with his diagnosis of early-onset Parkinson’s disease, he has made optimism his defining public characteristic, because of, rather than despite, his illness. The former I expected the latter was a shock. ![]() T he last time I spoke to Michael J Fox, in 2013, in his office in New York, he was 90% optimistic and 10% pragmatic. ![]()
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