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According to Parade and republished by AOL on December 12, Michael J. Fox has spent the past few days doing what only he can do so charmingly: turning a simple question about books into a window on his life with Parkinsons and the release of his new memoir Future Boy. In a New York Times conversation highlighted by Parade, he singled out Amor Towles A Gentleman in Moscow as a modern classic, praising its unrivaled prose and that rare beautiful sense of longing, while candidly explaining that tremors have pushed him toward audiobooks, typically one nonfiction and one fiction cued up at all times. That small detail about reading less with his hands and more with his ears will likely sit as a minor but telling line in the long arc of his biography, another way Parkinsons keeps reshaping but not defining his daily rituals.
On the business and legacy front, the big news is coming from the Michael J. Fox Foundation, which is marking its 25th anniversary with both a strategic research push and a bit of cinematic self reflection. The Foundation announced December 8 that it is launching its first wave of target validation projects under the multi year Targets to Therapies initiative, seeding 7.5 million dollars into early validation of high priority biological targets like NOD2, OGA, and key endolysosomal mechanisms such as TRPML1, TMEM175, and ATP13A2. The release from the Foundation frames this as one of its largest translational investments to date, the kind of behind the scenes move that could, if the science pans out, become a major chapter in any future account of how Parkinsons finally yielded to effective disease modifying treatments.
At nearly the same time, the Foundation dropped a new short film on its official channels, Making a Difference in 25 Years, chronicling the journey from Foxs 2000 decision to step back from a thriving acting career and launch a different kind of scientific philanthropy through to a present in which more than 500 Parkinsons treatments are somewhere in the development pipeline. The film, produced by his longtime collaborator Nelle Fortenberry, plays less like a vanity reel and more like an evolving epitaph in progress, documenting the shift from movie star to movement builder.
In the broader media ecosystem, his name is also riding a secondary wave as outlets from People to UNILAD revisit his early Parkinsons symptoms and his enduring hope for a cure, using the Foundations 25 year milestone and his new memoir as hooks. There are no credible reports of dramatic new health crises or surprise public appearances in the past few days; any social media chatter suggesting otherwise remains unverified and, given his history of swatting down false alarms about his condition, should be treated as rumor until backed by primary statements from Fox or the Foundation.
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