--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > <snip> > > > He was there to show the effects of Parkinson's...what's > > > he supposed to do, take his meds right BEFORE shooting the ad? > > > > > > Of course he should be filmed showing the debilitating > > > effects of it! > > > > In fact, it is entirely possible that his meds were working > > just fine. From what I understand you can have good days and > > bad days. > > From what *I* understand, a person with full-blown > Parkinson's who is unmedicated can hardly move at > all and has great difficulty speaking intelligibly. > The medication loosens all this up so the person > can move and talk, but it can't restore full motor > control, so the person bobs and weaves and twitches. > > In other words, Fox's movements were occurring > because he was *on* medication, not because he > was off it. He couldn't have made the commercial > otherwise.
Fox: I wasn't off meds in political By FRAZIER MOORE, Associated Press TV Writer In a response to charges by conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, Michael J. Fox defended his appearance in recent political campaign ads, saying he was neither acting nor off his medication for Parkinson's disease. On the contrary, he had been overmedicated, the actor said during an interview aired on Thursday's "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric." "The irony of it is that I was too medicated," Fox told Couric, adding that his jumpy condition as he spoke to her reflected "a dearth of medication not by design. I just take it, and it kicks in when it kicks in." "That's funny the notion that you could calculate it for effect," he said. "Would that we could." Read more at Yahoo! News: http://tinyurl.com/ucr6l To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
