--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> 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."
That's interesting because I heard someone read from his book where he said that that was exactly what he did when he appeared before Congress: he went off his meds for effect. > > 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/
