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Apple TV+ profiles Michael J. Fox in ‘STILL’

Michael J. Fox’s life has entailed a lot, and as his many fans long have been aware, not all of it has been for the cameras.

The five-time Primetime Emmy Award winner was at the height of his popularity as an actor when he received a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease in 1991, and both his private and public aspects get considerable attention in “STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie,” which Apple TV+ debuts Friday, May 12. Directed by Davis Guggenheim (“An Inconvenient Truth”) – whose wife, Elisabeth Shue, worked with Fox in the “Back to the Future” franchise – the film factors dramatic re-creations into Fox-narrated recollections of his experiences.

Though Fox admits he had

early difficulty emotionally in dealing with his health assessment, he ultimately channeled the situation into the nonprofit Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. It has financed more than $1 billion in projects, including a recent breakthrough involving a spinal fluid test. Fox also has traced his life and times in several memoirs:

“Lucky Man,” “Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist” and “No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality.”

Last year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave Fox the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, also an acknowledgment of his significance as a member of the entertainment community. After

he moved to Los Angeles from his native Canada, it wasn’t long before he was cast as politically minded Alex P. Keaton in the sitcom “Family Ties”; during its seven-season run, he also scored such movie successes as the three “Back to the Future” films, “Teen Wolf” and “The Secret of My Success,” plus image departures in “Bright Lights, Big City” (co-starring Fox’s wife, Tracy Pollan) and “Casualties of War.” After making such early-1990s comedy films as “Doc Hollywood” and “For Love or Money,” Fox returned to weekly sitcom work in “Spin City.” Midway through that show’s run, he went public with his Parkinson’s news, and Charlie Sheen succeeded him in the series. However, Fox earned later acclaim for recurring guest roles

on “Boston Legal,” “Rescue Me” and “The Good Wife.” In 2012, Fox made a bid for series work again with “The Michael J. Fox Show,” which incorporated aspects of his real life as he played a TV newsman. It lasted less than one season, but afterward, Fox reunited with earlier movie co-star and longtime friend Kiefer Sutherland in a guest arc on the latter’s show “Designated Survivor.” Though Fox maintains that he has retired from acting, he notes that could change under the right circumstances. For now, he’s back in the limelight by telling his own story in “STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie,” and it’s

“STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie” begins streaming Friday on Apple TV+.

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“Jimmy O. Yang:

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The “Crazy Rich Asians” and “Silicon Valley” actor and comic gives his take on such topics as love languages, loser friends and making compromises with his Asian parents in his first global stand-up special, which was filmed earlier this year. (ORIGINAL)

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“Movie: Baby

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Two veterans of “Saturday Night Live” reunite, to very funny effect, in this comedy about surrogate parenthood. Tina Fey plays a business-minded woman who wants to have a child, though she’s biologically unable to. The apparent solution is a decidedly different, rough-around-the-edges lady (Amy Poehler) who moves in, making it anyone’s guess if the duo will be able to endure each other until the baby is born.

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“Jewish Matchmaking”

From the creators of “Indian Matchmaking” comes this unscripted series that features singles in the U.S. and Israel as they turn their dating life over to top Jewish matchmaker Aleeza Ben Shalom and open themselves to the traditional practice of shidduch dating, in which Jewish singles are introduced to one another in Orthodox Jewish communities for the purpose of marriage. (ORIGINAL)

“White Men Can’t Jump” (Hulu — movie premiere, May 19)

“The Muppets Mayhem” (May 10)

This family comedy series follows the Muppets’ Electric Mayhem Band as they come face to face with the music scene of today as they embark on an epic quest to record their first studio album, helped by young music executive Nora (Lilly Singh, “Dollface”). Saara Chaudry (“The Mysterious Benedict Society”) and Tahj Mowry (“Baby Daddy”) are also in the nonpuppet cast. (ORIGINAL)

Kandi Burruss tries to balance work and family life, Kenya Moore opens her own hair salon, Drew Sidora releases her first album and Marlo Hampton dips back into dating in Season 15 of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” airing Sundays on Bravo. Stay on top of the latest news at www.bravotv.com/ the-real-housewives-of-atlanta

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deGrom looks to put health woes behind him in Texas

When your team hasn’t seen the postseason berth in six years and has a pitching staff consistently among the game’s worst, the need for change is obvious. And so it is that Jacob deGrom became a Texas Ranger.

Signing a five-year, $185 million contract over the winter, the twotime Cy Young winner represents a significant upgrade and a significant gamble on the part of the Rangers. Yes, when the righthander is healthy, he’s arguably the best pitcher in the game, as his career ERA of 2.55 would indicate. And his arrival, along with those of righty Nathan Eovaldi and lefty Andrew Heaney, served notice to the rest of the league that the Rangers are officially in win now mode.

But in recent years, the 34-year-old Floridian has looked increasingly fragile. He missed the second half of 2021 with inflammation in his pitching elbow. Then last season, a stress reaction in his right shoulder kept him out all year until August. And when he returned, the Mets, his former team, kept him on a strict pitch limit, which they removed when they needed him for a playoff run. And at that point he looked very ordinary, pitching to a 1-3 record with a 4.50 ERA in five starts.

Little wonder, then, why the Mets balked at giving him more than a three-year deal. The Rangers, conversely, were all too eager to give him the long-term deal he desired.

Now presumably healthy again, he leads a revamped Texas rotation with newcomers Eovaldi and Heaney and returnees Jon Gray and Martin Perez, one that the Rangers faithful hope will help make the team a force in the American League West.

The Rangers can be seen in action against the Oakland A’s Saturday, May 13, on FS1.

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Four-time All Star (2015, 2018, 2019, 2021); two-time Cy Young Award winner (2018, 2019); NL ERA leader (2018); two-time NL strikeout leader (2019, 2020); NL Rookie of the Year (2014)

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Co-star Lulu performs the hit title song.

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(1982) Cameron Crowe’s great script fuels this highly entertaining comedy, with Sean Penn a standout as surfer dude Jeff Spicoli ... who has a pizza delivered to him in class.

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“Back to School” (1986) What movie is more appropriate for a back-to-school list than this? Rodney Dangerfield is hilarious as

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“Heathers” (1988) A high school is nasty for many students – including several popular teens all named Heather – when a dangerous rebel (Christian Slater) transfers there.

“Dead Poets Society” (1989) An English teacher’s (Robin Williams) offbeat approach deeply inspires his private-school students in director Peter Weir’s fine drama.

“School of Rock” (2003) A musician (Jack Black) applies the lessons he’s learned from having been a band member to his new job as a substitute teacher.

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We feel very blessed to be able to be doing a show on a big, major network at this time. I’m really proud of that (100th-episode) milestone, as well as getting the great news that we’ll be back for a sixth season.

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“Wanda Sykes: I’m an Entertainer” (Netflix — new special, May 23)

The actress and comic brings her insightful wit and candor to bear as she discusses topics ranging from raising Gen Z teens to the dilemmas of being a liberal in a hyper charged political climate, in this stand-up performance filmed this past February at the Miller Theater in Philadelphia.

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A: I grew up in St. Louis, definitely the kind of neighborhood where you knew everybody up and down the block, the different families. You knew the houses not to go to. All of these things were a part of being a great neighborhood. Now, of course, it’s very different. One, I’m extremely rich. I have to live behind 13 gates, I believe, right now. There’s several security guards to even get to my own bedroom. (In the pandemic era,) everybody had to get outside. We were walking, and that was the first time in recent years that I had an opportunity to kind of find out about people who lived near me, and see their faces and know who they were.

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I think that’s when my sense of humor started to jump out and when I was aware of it, especially when I started getting in trouble at school for being funny – doing things that I thought was just me being myself, and I’d find out I would have the kids all laughing. Then the teacher would blame me for being disruptive, and I was like, “Oh. This is something.”

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We feel very blessed to be able to be doing a show on a big, major network at this time. I’m really proud of that (100th-episode) milestone, as well as getting the great news that we’ll be back for a sixth season.

Q: What was your own neighborhood like when you were young?

A: I grew up in St. Louis, definitely the kind of neighborhood where you knew everybody up and down the block, the different families. You knew the houses not to go to. All of these things were a part of being a great neighborhood. Now, of course, it’s very different. One, I’m extremely rich. I have to live behind 13 gates, I believe, right now. There’s several security guards to even get to my own bedroom. (In the pandemic era,) everybody had to get outside. We were walking, and that was the first time in recent years that I had an opportunity to kind of find out about people who lived near me, and see their faces and know who they were.

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