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        <title><![CDATA[Michael J. Fox enters &#8216;second retirement&#8217; due to declining health]]></title>
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						<p>Michael J. Fox is severing ties with the world of acting.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is a time for everything, and my time of putting in a 12-hour workday, and memorizing seven pages of dialogue, is best behind me,&#8221; the Canadian-American actor, 59, revealed in his new book and fourth memoir, &#8220;<strong>No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality</strong>.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;At least for now &#8230; I enter a second retirement,&#8221; the &#8220;Family Ties&#8221; star continued. &#8220;That could change, because everything changes. But if this is the end of my acting career, so be it.”</p>
<p>The decision follows Fox, who was diagnosed with Parkinson&#8217;s disease at 29, recently noticing symptoms of the disease including memory loss, delusions and dementia, cognitive declines which he writes he had &#8220;rarely contemplated before now, much less spoke of.&#8221;</p>
<p>These have included confusing his twin daughters and searching for his car keys — despite the fact that he can no longer drive.</p>
<figure id="attachment_16647846"  class="wp-caption aligncenter"><strong><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/11/20/michael-j-fox-enters-8216-second-retirement-8217-due-to-declining-health-0.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span class="credit">Getty Images</span></figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_16647772"  class="wp-caption alignright"><strong><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/11/20/michael-j-fox-enters-8216-second-retirement-8217-due-to-declining-health-1.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Michael J. Fox&#8217;s <strong>&#8220;No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality&#8221;</strong> is out now.</span><span class="credit">Flatiron Books</span></figcaption></figure>
<p>The &#8220;Back to the Future&#8221; star also suffered a bad fall in 2019 while filming a cameo for the movie &#8220;See You Yesterday,&#8221; just four months after <strong>undergoing surgery to remove a tumor</strong> on his spine.</p>
<p>Fox credits his optimism for allowing his career to continue despite his physical degradation. When he was diagnosed with Parkinson&#8217;s in 1991, a doctor told him he&#8217;d be lucky if he was able to work another decade, a prediction which, 30 years, seven Emmy nominations and one Emmy win later, Fox has clearly defied.</p>
<p>In addition to discussing his health and future career, Fox also touches on his family, famous friends and sobriety struggles in his book, out this week.</p>
<p>&#8220;She’s not always a rock, but that’s okay,&#8221; he writes of wife Tracy Pollan, to whom he&#8217;s been married for 32 years. &#8220;Rocks are solid, stubborn, and immovable. That’s me. Tracy, on the other hand, has learned to keep the rock rolling.”</p>
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