Michael J Fox

The ‘Back To The Future’ movies are three of my favourite films, the second instalment, although probably the weaker of the three, rocks as far as I’m concerned; I love all the ‘time-space continuum’ shenanigans with Marty McFly and Doc Emmett Brown zipping forwards and backwards in time trying to resolve issues that have/could affect Marty’s family.

Back To The Future was Michael J Fox’s big film break and he shot to fame in his role as Marty. The world was suddenly at his feet and boy, did he fly (pun intended). Nothing could have brought him down the earth faster though than the realisation that the annoying twitch in his little finger was not some booze induced tremor but was in fact the onset of Parkinson’s Disease.

In his memoir ‘Lucky Man’, Fox does not look for pity in his predicament, he really does regard himself as a ‘lucky man’ and his affliction ‘a gift’ albeit one that ‘just keeps on taking’.

I don’t usually read biographies auto- or otherwise and with so many ‘celeb’ stories on the shelves, I only started to read this one as I like the guy in the book. I wasn’t disappointed… it’s a compelling story, more than competently told by an actor who could so easily have been a best selling author.

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