He is frank but not maudlin about his drinking problem, and he refreshingly notes that getting sober did not automatically solve all his other problems. ("As for the question, 'Does it bother you that maybe she just wants to sleep with you because you're a celebrity?' My answer to that one was, 'Ah.nope.'") With a working-class Canadian background, Fox has an unusually detached perspective on the madness of mass-media fame his description of the tabloid feeding frenzy surrounding his 1988 wedding to Tracy Pollan, for example, manages to be both acid and matter-of-fact.
In Fox's case, you actually might believe it, because he then cheerfully exposes the insecurities and self-indulgences of his pre-Parkinson's life in a manner that makes them not glamorous but wincingly ordinary and of course very funny. And yes, he assures us he is a better, happier person now than he was before he was diagnosed. Yes, he begins with the first symptoms of Parkinson's disease, the incurable illness that led to his retirement from Spin City (and acting) in 2000. Fox a star in the Family Ties TV series and Back to the Future make this a lot punchier than the usual up-from-illness celebrity memoir. The same sharp intelligence and self-deprecating wit that made Michael J. But the retired actor turned author has turned terminal misfortune to good use, not least by writing a book that demonstrates that even sickness can be a gift when an attempt is made to understand it properly. But Parkinson's is predominantly a late-life ailment and Lucky Man is therefore inescapably a bad luck story: in medical history the recovery chapter for Parkinson's is still unwritten. These memoirs do not recount the usual Hollywood tale of stardom won, lost and won again (clearing up after the chemical implosion, the basic recovery narrative), but deliver a less common tale of consistent professional accomplishment achieved against the odds.
This is another paragraph Review: Michael J Fox found fame in the Eighties in the Back to the Future movie franchise in the Nineties he starred in the hit US TV show Spin City and for most of his career he kept secret his illness: Parkinson's Disease. VGC.Ebury Press,2002.First UK edition-4th printing(5 7 9 10 8 6 4).Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,small nick on the edge of the cover) with Dj(very small tear,a couple of creases,nicks and scratch on the edges of the Dj cover),both in VGC.Illustrated with b/w photos.Nice and clean pages but slightly yellow on the outer edges,a couple of creases,small nick and light shelf wear on the edges of the un-clipped.
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