Summary of Michael J. Fox's Lucky Man

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Book Preview: #1 I had a hangover, and I couldn’t stop shaking my left hand. I was sure it was because of my alcohol consumption the night before, but I didn’t have any symptoms of alcoholic deterioration.

#2 I had a theory that the shaking was caused by a drunken slapfight with Woody Harrelson, but I couldn’t remember any such melee. I did, however, remember a moment at the end of the night when my bodyguard had had to prop me up against the door frame while he fumbled the key into the door of my suite.

#3 I had no idea that my brain was malfunctioning, and I had no idea that there were problems in the relationship between my brain and my mind. I thought everything was fine, and I was wrong.

#4 I am no longer the person described in the first few pages of this chapter. I am forever grateful for that. I would never want to go back to that life, which was a sheltered, narrow existence fueled by fear and self-indulgence.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Feb 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669347903

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Insights on Michael J. Fox's Lucky Man

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had a hangover, and I couldn’t stop shaking my left hand. I was sure it was because of my alcohol consumption the night before, but I didn’t have any symptoms of alcoholic deterioration.

#2

I had a theory that the shaking was caused by a drunken slapfight with Woody Harrelson, but I couldn’t remember any such melee. I did, however, remember a moment at the end of the night when my bodyguard had had to prop me up against the door frame while he fumbled the key into the door of my suite.

#3

I had no idea that my brain was malfunctioning, and I had no idea that there were problems in the relationship between my brain and my mind. I thought everything was fine, and I was wrong.

#4

I am no longer the person described in the first few pages of this chapter. I am forever grateful for that. I would never want to go back to that life, which was a sheltered, narrow existence fueled by fear and self-indulgence.

#5

I had a visitor to my trailer that afternoon, Michael Caton-Jones, a director I'd never met before. He was dripping sweat, and I liked him right away because of it. He wanted to make a Capra-esque American comedy.

#6

I was working on a movie that paid homage to the screwball comedies of the 1930s and 1940s. I was playing a spoiled young Hollywood star who, after traveling incognito to New York, tags alongside a reluctant NYPD detective as research for a role that would finally make me taken seriously as a dramatic actor.

#7

I had been working on a script for months that was loosely based on the book What. Dead Again. It was a string of humorous anecdotal scenes with no cohesive arc or storyline. The secondary characters, stereotypical Southerners, were as familiar as yesterday's reruns.

#8

The Hard Way was a trial. With a greater emphasis on action than anything I'd done before, I had taken a physical beating on the film. I needed rest. A long rest.

#9

Some members of