New Releases by Michael J. Fox

In early 1985, Michael J. Fox was one of the biggest stars on television. His world was about to get even bigger, but only if he could survive the kind of double duty unheard of in Hollywood. Fox’s days were already dedicated to rehearsing and taping the hit sitcom Family Ties, but then the chance of a lifetime came his way. Soon, he committed his nights to a new time-travel adventure film being directed by Robert Zemeckis and produced by Steven Spielberg—Back to the Future. Sitcom during the day, movie at night—day after day, for months. Fox’s nightly commute from a soundstage at Paramount to the back lot at Universal Studios, from one dream job to another, would become his own space-time continuum. It was in this time portal that Alex P. Keaton handed the baton to Marty McFly while Michael J. Fox tried to catch a few minutes of sleep. Alex’s bravado, Marty’s flair, and Fox’s comedic virtuosity all swirled together to create something truly special. In Future Boy, Fox tells the remarkable story of playing two landmark roles at the same time—a slice of entertainment history that’s never been told. Using new interviews with the cast and crew of both projects, the result is a vividly drawn and eye-opening story of creative achievement by a beloved icon.

Michael J. Fox megrendítően beszél reményről, félelemről és halandóságról, és arról, hogy ezek milyen visszhangot keltenek az életünkben. Marty McFly a Vissza a jövőbe című filmből, Alex P. Keaton a Családi kötelékek című sorozatból, Mike Flaherty a Kerge Város-ból - így ismeri az egész világ Michael J. Foxot a számtalan más filmszerepről és olyan tévéműsorok vendégeként való megjelenéséről nem is szólva, mint A férjem védelmében és a Félig üres. Huszonkilenc évesen fiatalkori Parkinson-kórt diagnosztizáltak nála, így hosszú évek óta küzd a betegség által érintettek szószólójaként, felhívja a világ figyelmét a kórra, és a Michael J. Fox Parkinson Alapítványon keresztül, ami a világ egyik vezető non-profit alapítványaként finanszírozza a Parkinson-kór tudományos kutatásait, igyekszik gyógymódot találni. Az Előre a jövőbe című könyvében Michael személyes történeteket és megfigyeléseket oszt meg betegségről és egészségről, korosodásról, a család és a barátok erőt adó támogatásáról, és arról, hogy az idő észlelése milyen hatással van arra, ahogy a mulandósághoz viszonyulunk. Elmélyült és megindító alkotás, amit mindvégig áthat a Michael J. Foxra jellemző humor. A könyv útmutató gondolatokat ébreszt bennünk a magunk életével, szerelmeivel, veszteségeinkkel és újrakezdéseinkkel, és a szeretet mindent legyőző erejével kapcsolatban.

Michael J. Fox znany jest całemu światu jako Marty McFly, nastoletni pomocnik doktora Browna z „Powrotu do przyszłości”. W książce „Nie ma jak przyszłość” ten bardzo lubiany i słynny ze swojego niesłabnącego optymizmu aktor dzieli się z czytelnikami osobistymi historiami i spostrzeżeniami na temat zdrowia i choroby, starzenia się i siły, jaką dają rodzina i przyjaciele. Pokazuje też, jak podejście do własnej śmiertelności zmienia się z czasem. Ta płynąca z serca, poruszająca książka jest naznaczona typowym dla Michaela J. Foxa poczuciem humoru i stanowi rodzaj wehikułu, który pomoże czytelnikom przyjrzeć się z inspirującej perspektywy swojemu życiu: temu, co kochamy i co utraciliśmy. Ważnym wątkiem opowieści Foxa są jego dramatyczne kryzysy zdrowotne. Aktor opisuje, jak radzi sobie z chorobą Parkinsona, na którą cierpi od 1991 roku, oraz z nowotworem rdzenia kręgowego. Wyzwanie, jakim dla Foxa była ponowna nauka chodzenia – przerwana przez fatalny w skutkach upadek – niemal zgasiło jego optymizm i wiarę w dewizę, że „nie ma tego złego, co by na dobre nie wyszło”. Czy i tym razem uda mu się pokonać trudności i odzyskać nadzieję? Przekonajcie się – przeczytajcie tę niesamowitą, wzruszającą i okraszoną humorem książkę. Wspaniała książka: wzrusza, ale też bawi – Hadley Freeman, „The Guardian” Szczera książka o tym, że nigdy nie należy się poddawać – „Kirkus Reviews” To wspomnienia z niezwykłym wyczuciem celu. Bezpośrednie, zwięzłe, znakomicie się je czyta – „The Times” Osobiste historie, które czasem brzmią wręcz alegorycznie – „The Wall Street Journal” W tej poruszającej, ale często też zabawnej książce Michael J. Fox zdradza, jak odzyskał swój optymizm – „The Guardian” Sposób pisania Michaela J. Foxa odzwierciedla jego żartobliwe i pozytywne podejście do życia – „GQ”

«Pieno di aneddoti, meditazioni e storie divertenti, «Il futuro è stato bellissimo» ci offre le intuizioni di un uomo che conosce la sofferenza fin troppo bene, ma si rifiuta di lasciarle intralciare la propria vita.» Time «Ciò che rende appassionante questo libro è il suo stile: buffo, affabile, amichevole, contagioso, conviviale e meditativo. » The Washington Times «Un libro per riflettere sulle nostre vite, i nostri amori e le nostre perdite, attraverso lo sguardo di un attore molto amato.» Il Messaggero «Un nuovo memoir che ha molto da insegnare.» GQ Il mondo intero conosce Michael J. Fox per i suoi famosi ruoli cinematografici e televisivi, dal Marty McFly della saga di Ritorno al futuro, all’Alex Keaton di Casa Keaton, al Mike Flaherty di Spin City. Forse, però, il ruolo più difficile da interpretare gliel’ha dato la vita, quando non ancora trentenne gli è stata diagnosticata la malattia di Parkinson. Senza tradire il suo stile diretto e ironico, che ne ha fatto uno degli attori più amati, ha continuato a recitare e allo stesso tempo si è impegnato in prima persona per aumentare la consapevolezza globale della malattia che l’ha colpito e finanziare la ricerca scientifica. Nonostante il futuro avesse in serbo per lui altre sfide dolorose – un’altra diagnosi medica minacciosa, seguita da un intervento e da una lunga riabilitazione –, non ha mai perso l’ottimismo e la determinazione, e anzi ne ha tratto il materiale per questo suo nuovo libro. Il risultato è un’appassionante raccolta di storie personali e osservazioni sulla malattia e la salute, sulla forza della famiglia e degli amici e su come la nostra percezione del tempo influenzi le nostre vite. Personale, commovente e ricco del tipico senso dell''umorismo del suo autore, Il futuro è stato bellissimo ci offre un’affascinante riflessione sulla vita, sulla speranza e sul potere dell’amicizia e dell’amore, con l’invito a guardare al futuro con gioia e gratitudine.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike Flaherty in Spin City; and through numerous other movie roles and guest appearances on shows such as The Good Wife and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Diagnosed at age 29, Michael is equally engaged in Parkinson’s advocacy work, raising global awareness of the disease and helping find a cure through The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, the world’s leading non-profit funder of PD science. His two previous bestselling memoirs, Lucky Man and Always Looking Up, dealt with how he came to terms with the illness, all the while exhibiting his iconic optimism. His new memoir reassesses this outlook, as events in the past decade presented additional challenges. In No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, Michael shares personal stories and observations about illness and health, aging, the strength of family and friends, and how our perceptions about time affect the way we approach mortality. Thoughtful and moving, but with Fox’s trademark sense of humor, his book provides a vehicle for reflection about our lives, our loves, and our losses. Running through the narrative is the drama of the medical madness Fox recently experienced, that included his daily negotiations with the Parkinson’s disease he’s had since 1991, and a spinal cord issue that necessitated immediate surgery. His challenge to learn how to walk again, only to suffer a devastating fall, nearly caused him to ditch his trademark optimism and “get out of the lemonade business altogether.” Does he make it all of the way back? Read the book.

Abstract: Yamamoto and DeGirolamo (2012) found that increasing age has unequal effects of impairment on spatial learning dependent on the perspective in which an environment is learned. Further, the learned condition of ground-level perspective (first-person exploratory) showed greater decline in elderly participants than was found in aerial (map reading) conditions. These results supported previous research involving fMRI scans implicating the medial temporal lobe (MTL) role in exploratory navigation of novel environments and MRI scans indicating MTL atrophy with age. However, Yamamoto and DeGirolamo (2012) did not consider the effects of conducting the experiment with one condition being presented with changing orientation (ground-level) and the other condition having fixed orientation (aerial). Utilizing new research revealing the MTL''s role in orientation processing, the present study reexamined Yamamoto and DeGirolamo (2012) findings with the introduction of the condition aerial-with-turns (map reading with changing orientation). The findings of this experiment suggest changing orientation in the learning condition has greater impact on elderly participants'' performance of spatial learning tasks than that of the perspective in which the learning condition is in.

Michael J. Fox ficou conhecido no mundo todo por sua atuação em seriados como Caras & Caretas e Spin City e, sobretudo, pelo personagem Marty McFly na trilogia De volta para o futuro. Mas pouca gente conhece sua comovente história de vida. Neste novo livro, ele relata o difícil início de carreira nos Estados Unidos, depois de ter largado a escola no Canadá sem completar o ensino médio. Fala, então, de tudo que a vida se encarregou de ensinar a ele: um pouco de economia, de literatura, de física, enfim, um pouco de tudo! O verdadeiro aprendizado, segundo ele, surge quando menos esperamos.

Michael J. Fox abandoned high school to pursue an acting career, but went on to receive honorary degrees from several universities and garner the highest accolades for his acting, as well as for his writing. In his new book, he inspires and motivates graduates to recognize opportunities, maximize their abilities, and roll with the punches--all with his trademark optimism, warmth, and humor. In A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future, Michael draws on his own life experiences to make a case that real learning happens when "life goes skidding sideways." He writes of coming to Los Angeles from Canada at age eighteen and attempting to make his way as an actor. Fox offers up a comically skewed take on how, in his own way, he fulfilled the requirements of a college syllabus. He learned Economics as a starving artist; an unexpected turn as a neophyte activist schooled him in Political Science; and his approach to Comparative Literature involved stacking books up against their movie versions. Replete with personal stories and hilarious anecdotes, Michael J. Fox''s new book is the perfect gift for graduates.

At the turn from our bedroom into the hallway, there is an old, full-length mirror in a wooden frame. I can''t help but catch a glimpse of myself as I pass. Turning fully toward the glass, I consider what I see. This reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, pinched, and slightly stooped, would be alarming were it not for the self-satisfied expression pasted across my face. I would ask the obvious question, "What are you smiling about?" but I already know the answer: "It just gets better from here." There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But readers of Always Looking Up will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about the hard-won perspective that helped him see challenges as opportunities. Instead of building walls around himself, he developed a personal policy of engagement and discovery: an emotional, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual outlook that has served him throughout his struggle with Parkinson''s disease. Michael''s exit from a very demanding, very public arena offered him the time--and the inspiration--to open up new doors leading to unexpected places. One door even led him to the center of his own family, the greatest destination of all. 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. I had been Mike the actor, then Mike the actor with PD. Now was I just Mike with PD Parkinson''s had consumed my career and, in a sense, had become my career. But where did all of this leave Me? I had to build a new life when I was already pretty happy with the old one. Always Looking Up shares the critical themes of Michael''s life: work, politics, faith, and family. The book is a journey of self-discovery and reinvention, and a testament to the consolations that protect him from the ravages of Parkinson''s. With humor and wit Michael describes how he became a happier, more satisfied person by recognizing the gifts of everyday life.

The popular film and television actor evaluates the personal philosophy that has enabled his positive outlook in spite of his battle with degenerative Parkinson''s disease, in an uplifting account that considers how he has become a happier and more satisfied person by recognizing the gifts of everyday life.

A funny, highly personal, gorgeously written account of what it''s like to be a 30-year-old man who is told he has an 80-year-old''s disease. "Life is great. Sometimes, though, you just have to put up with a little more crap." -- Michael J. Fox In September 1998, Michael J. Fox stunned the world by announcing he had been diagnosed with Parkinson''s disease -- a degenerative neurological condition. In fact, he had been secretly fighting it for seven years. The worldwide response was staggering. Fortunately, he had accepted the diagnosis and by the time the public started grieving for him, he had stopped grieving for himself. Now, with the same passion, humor, and energy that Fox has invested in his dozens of performances over the last 18 years, he tells the story of his life, his career, and his campaign to find a cure for Parkinson''s. Combining his trademark ironic sensibility and keen sense of the absurd, he recounts his life -- from his childhood in a small town in western Canada to his meteoric rise in film and television which made him a worldwide celebrity. Most importantly however, he writes of the last 10 years, during which--with the unswerving support of his wife, family, and friends -- he has dealt with his illness. He talks about what Parkinson''s has given him: the chance to appreciate a wonderful life and career, and the opportunity to help search for a cure and spread public awareness of the disease. He is a very lucky man, indeed. The Michael J. Fox Foundation Michael J. Fox is donating the profits from his book to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson''s Research, which is dedicated to fast-forwarding the cure for Parkinson''s disease. The Foundation will move aggressively to identify the most promising research and raise the funds to assure that a cure is found for the millions of people living with this disorder. The Foundation''s web site, MichaelJFox.org, carries the latest pertinent information about Parkinson''s disease, including: A detailed description of Parkinson''s disease How you can help find the cure Public Services Announcements that are aired on network and cable television stations across the country to increase awareness Upcoming related Parkinson''s disease events and meetings Updates on recent research and developments

Micheal J. Fox recounts his life-- from his childhood in a small town in western Canada to his meteoric rise in film and television which made him a worldwide celebrity. Most importantly however, he writes of the last 10 years, during which he has dealt with Parkinson''s disease. He talks about what Parkinson''s has given him: the chance to appreciate a wonderful life and career, and the opportunity to help search for a cure and spread public awareness of the disease.