Lucky Man

I was as shocked as anyone when, in September 1998, actor Michael J Fox announced that for the past seven years he had been giving the performance of his life; hiding Parkinsons from the world. Looking at films or the highly acclaimed sitcom Spin City, all made during this period, there seems to be nothing wrong with the popular actor whose only ‘disability’ previously was being ‘vertically challenged.’ On the initial reading of his recollections its all too easy to forget the peculiar circumstances surrounding his condition for, unlike all …