From: Alex Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 11:56:24 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Madonna and her Malawi adoption
--- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@ >
> wrote:
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> > --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, "authfriend" <jstein@>
> > wrote:
> <snip>
> > > 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.
>
> I think he means you can't calculate the effect
of
> the medication when you're taking it, in terms of
> when it "kicks in" and how much good it does. You
> *can* calculate the effect of going off it: you'll be
> much worse, guaranteed.
>
> Bear in mind that Parkinson's is progressive, and
> that his congressional testimony occurred some years
> ago. I suspect he wouldn't have been able to do the
> commercial at all if he'd gone off the medication,
> because his condition has deteriorated in the interim.
The video of Fox talking to Couric is available online:
http://tinyurl. com/ymjywl
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