Now was I just Mike with PD? Parkinson’s had consumed my career and, in a sense, had become my career. I had been Mike the actor, then Mike the actor with PD. Why we like this book: With brutal honestly, Fox writes: “The last ten years, which is really the stuff of this book, began with such a loss: my retirement from “Spin City.” I found myself struggling with a strange new dynamic: the shifting of public and private personas. He pulls no punches describing the hardships-both physical and emotional-that accompanied his diagnosis with Parkinson’s, but listeners are quickly reminded that for every challenge the disease brought, Fox trained himself to find the silver lining.” “There are no frills of any kind with this recording, but none are needed Fox’s tale is engrossing on its own. “Considering that this audiobook opens with the author detailing the laborious steps necessary just to get out of bed, it’s miraculous that Fox’s voice sounds just as charming, stalwart, and nearly as steady as it did during his long film and television career,” wrote Publisher’s Weekly in its review of the 2009 book. It was no surprise that he’d do it with grace-and humor. I was intrigued, too, to see how someone so visible would handle the blow. I have been following his career ever since, so when he announced that he had Parkinson’s disease in 1998, my heart went out to him and his family. In the movies, “The Secret of My Success,” and “Bright Lights, Big City,” he charmed me with his quick wit.
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Image (right) from his TV special, Adventures of an Incurable Optimist. Let us know which you like best, and why it changed your perspective on life, love, and / or your business, and we’ll send you a copy-for free! Email submissions to: do consider the words of Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who wrote: “A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.” Here’s to that!Īlways Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist In the spirit of that optimistic ideal, we decided not just to focus on one book this month, but to pick several tomes in hopes that one (or more) would spark and inspire your positivity. Nobel-Prize winning French writer Anatole France once said, “I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the wisdom of indifference.”
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