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When MICHAEL J. FOX announced his departure from Spin City to battle Parkinson's disease, many thought it meant the end of the four-year-old City Hall sitcom. Not necessarily. Actor CHARLIE SHEEN is in serious discussions with ABC and DreamWorks, which produces Spin City, to join the cast. Spin City creator Gary David Goldberg--who had worked with Sheen on a pilot, Sugar Hill--would return to reshape the comedy in its fifth season next year. Producers toyed with the idea of introducing Sheen's character before the show goes on its summer break in May, but decided...
RETIRING. Michael J. Fox, 38, actor who is suffering from Parkinson's disease; from the TV sitcom Spin City to work toward a cure for the illness...
...Jubilee Year, a period for which he has been strenuously preparing. There has been some concern over the image of the Pontiff broadcast over the millennial weekend: one of a visibly weakened man. The vigorous 58-year-old elected in 1978 to challenge communism suffers from the onset of Parkinson's disease, limps and has terrible difficulty negotiating steps. His left arm shakes, at times uncontrollably. His face is rigid, and his speech is slurred. At the end of 1999, his aides moved him around St. Peter's Basilica with a pushcart...
...Safra five months ago, confessed to police Monday that he had set the fire that led to Safra's death. His reputed motivation: jealousy of other nurses. Maher apparently was one of the least favored members of Safra's medical staff (the 67-year-old banker suffered from Parkinson's disease) and wanted to win his boss's favor by painting himself as a hero. So he started a small fire in a wastebasket, claimed two knife-wielding hooded men entered the apartment - and slashed himself. The plan was to say he scared off the assailants and saved...
...Decade of the Brain proclaimed by President George Bush draws to a close, neuroscientists are increasingly sanguine that in George Jr.'s lifetime, brain-cell transplants may reverse, if not cure, a host of neurological diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, as well as brain damage caused by strokes and head injuries. Even a year ago, such a sweeping claim might have been dismissed as nonsense. But that was before last fall's discovery that the fetal human brain contains master cells (called neural stem cells) that can grow into any kind of brain cell. Snyder extracted these...