The MJFDB News Blog

I hope all of you from the USA had a good Thanksgiving - and all you Canadians had a good one last month.

Here’s some MJF news to round out your weekend.

Tracy Pollan to appear on Medium - Tracy Pollan will appear in a three-episode story arc on the television series Medium.

Taking Science Personally - an interesting article about the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research

Back to the Future Trilogy to be re-released in seperate, 2-disc special editions in February of 2009 - click the link for all the details from BTTF.com

DVD Review of Spin City: Season 1

Michael J. Fox is on the cover of People - ten years after his announcement that he has Parkinson’s Disease

LivePR.com reports on Gary David Goldberg’s new autobiography. Here’s an excerpt. To read the full article go here.

Gary David Goldberg, the creator, writer and producer for the television series Brooklyn Bridge, Spin City and the iconic Family Ties will release his autobiography, Sit Ubu, Sit, an extraordinary account of an incredibly successful – and incredibly unexpected – life in show business.

Sit, Ubu, Sit elevates the typical Hollywood memoir by providing an insider’s view on the industry with a deeply personal story that has been integral to Goldberg’s success. From basing the parents in Family Ties on himself and his wife - two former flower children struggling to raise successful kids with counter cultural values – to paying homage to his grandmother Jenny in Brooklyn Bridge, Gary has drawn inspiration throughout his career from his own life and the colorful people who helped shape it.

To read the full article go here…

For the past year, maybe longer, I’ve been terrible about updating the MJFDB and especially the News section. I promised myself that I would do better this year and I have been collecting news articles - I just haven’t been posting them.

Well, get ready kiddies. This post will list all those news bits that I thought important enough to keep since late last year. Some of these are pretty old - can’t really be called ‘news’ anymore - but I don’t want to not include them on the site.

So, here we go….

At the end of 2007 Time Magazine released its lists of 100 Most Influential People in several different fields. Michael J. Fox was listed at number 54 in the ‘Heroes & Pioneers’ section. CLICK HERE for more…

Wow, this is an old one - May 2007. Michael J. Fox was the keynote speaker at the BIO 2007 conference. CLICK HERE for more…

Not really MJF-related but I found it interesting. MJF’s brother-in-law, Michael Pollan, is apparently is a food expert. CLICK HERE for more…

Dec. 17, 2007 - Esquire Magazine article: What I’ve Learned: Michael J. Fox. CLICK HERE for more…

There are reports of a possible Teen Wolf remake, but with a twist. This time, the wolf would be female.

Tom Welling (Smallville) is mentioned as part of the cast. So, who do you think he’s going to play? Stiles….or Boof?

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