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Well, besides starring in several movies and starring in and producing a new sitcom for ABC (which won a Golden Globe this year), Fox seems to have decided to attack his condition with the notable combination of faith and science. Last spring, he underwent one of the most aggressive treatments for Parkinson's, a thalamotomy, in which doctors removed the brain cells contributing to Fox's most severe limb tremors. Despite the operation's risk of paralysis or death, he told Walters, "I had full faith in my doctors, and I had full faith...
AILING. MICHAEL J. FOX, 37, film and TV actor; of Parkinson's disease. Fox, who stars in ABC's Spin City, disclosed to PEOPLE that the disease was diagnosed in 1991 after he noticed a twitch in his finger during the filming of Doc Hollywood. Fox underwent brain surgery last March for the illness--a progressive degeneration of the central nervous system with no known cure. "I think I can help people by talking," he said...
...sole duty should be to "the truth" and "facts, facts, facts," as Starr has sanctimoniously and, I think, accurately reminded us, what is he doing chatting with the woman who once abetted a similar Hail Mary p.r. effort by Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley? In going on ABC less than a week after visiting the House Judiciary Committee and appealing directly to the American people on matters both of substance ("There is no excuse for perjury. Never, never, never") and style (Starr confessed to having seen "any number of" R-rated movies), the special prosecutor was practicing the sort...
When we first teamed up at ABC in the mid-'70s, broadcast television was still a heady and vibrant place. We were thrilled when we heard someone mention a show we had helped get on--Soap, maybe, or Barney Miller or Taxi. We learned from our favorite bosses, Fred Silverman and Michael Eisner, that a good programmer respects the audience, takes risks, has showman-like instincts and lives to bring the best and brightest talent to the people...
...closer to the game had another opinion of Rozelle: as a shrewd promoter of his sport. He invented the Super Bowl, for example, and sold the rights to the first game to two networks (NBC and CBS), which forced them to compete for viewers. He invented (with ABC Sports chief Roone Arledge) Monday Night Football, which is the second longest running prime-time show on American television, after 60 Minutes. He exhibited a taste for kitsch and spectacle unrivaled in professional sports. He loved floats and glitter and marching bands. His idea of beauty was a balloon drop...