Still: A Michael J. Fox movie
Psych Legal Pop Podcast
Tess & Brooke Brigham
4.2 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this Apple TV documentary actor Michael J. Fox shares his life from childhood to the present day and the harsh realities of living with Parkinson's disease. Anyone of a certain age knows Fox first and foremost as Alex P. Keaton, the precocious young Republican teen on Family Ties in the 1980's. He then graduated to full movie star status as Marty McFly in Back to the Future. America fell in love with him. At 29 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease which he kept a secret for 7 years. He then turned his focus to his family and raising money for Parkinson's research, raising over 2 billion dollars so far. Fox's ability to stay focused and positive with the love and support of his wife Tracey Pollan and his children is remarkable. This is an uplifting story in a time when such a thing is hard to find.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the psych legal pop podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | This is a podcast where we talk about popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm the therapist, Tess Brigham, and I'm Brooke Brigham. I'm the attorney. |
| 0:16.0 | So today we are talking about still the Michael J. Fox documentary on Apple TV. |
| 0:25.4 | So if you don't know who Michael J. Fox is, if you are a very, very young person, he is, he is an actor and, you know, he's very much a big big part of our childhood um actor most best known for |
| 0:42.7 | uh playing alex p keaton on family ties um and uh for back to the future and um you know many many |
| 0:53.3 | other movies from the 80s, 90s, and Spin City. |
| 0:59.6 | He, if one of my favorite shows is Good Wife. |
| 1:02.7 | If you watch that show, he, you had a recurring character on that show. |
| 1:06.2 | He was brilliant. |
| 1:07.7 | And he has had Parkinson's disease for, I think, close to 30 plus years now. |
| 1:15.6 | Yeah, he was diagnosed at 29 and he's now 62. |
| 1:20.2 | And this is documentary is basically kind of almost catching us up on his life where he is today. |
| 1:29.1 | I think a lot of people, because he's not out in public too much anymore, I think people just don't see him as much. |
| 1:38.9 | He obviously acts here and there, but not as much as he used to. |
| 1:43.7 | And I think he makes some public appearances, |
| 1:46.7 | but not anywhere near what he used to. And I think there were some scenes where it was just |
| 1:51.7 | watching him walk was surprising. He's struggling. I think he's physically struggling. It's |
| 1:56.7 | more now. It's hard for him to just walk down the street without falling. Yes. Yes. And so we were trying to |
| 2:06.9 | figure out like why this documentary, why now. But I think, I think a lot of it was very much just to |
| 2:14.6 | show people like this is, this is me now. This is who I am. |
| 2:18.2 | Well, and also, let's be real, he probably doesn't have much longer that he would be able to do this. |
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