Most importantly, he writes of the last ten years, during which - with the unswerving support of his wife, family, and friends - he has dealt with his illness.
With the same passion, humor, and energy that he has invested in his dozens of performances over the last eighteen years, he tells the story of his life, his career, and his campaign to find a cure for Parkinson's.Ĭombining his trademark ironic sensibility and keen sense of the absurd, he recounts his life - from his childhood in western Canada to his meteoric rise in film and television which made him a worldwide celebrity. Fortunately, he had accepted the diagnosis, and by the time the public started grieving for him, he had stopped grieving for himself.
In fact, he had been secretly fighting it for seven years. Fox stunned the world by announcing that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease - a degenerative neurological condition. 'If you were to rush in to this room right now and announce that you had struck a deal-with God, Allah, Buddha, Christ, Krishna, Bill Gates, whomever-in which the ten years since my diagnosis could be magically taken away, traded in for ten more years as the person I was before, I would, without a moment's hesitation, tell you to take a hike.' Urn:oclc:864766010 Scandate 20100929211721 Scanner scribe3.la.archive.Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album! 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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