Memories

PMQ's Camp Chilliwack

As Michael picks at a plate of spaghetti puttanesca, we talk about our kids, and the finicky business of writing.

Recently he went home to visit his family in B.C. He had only one copy of his book, but his mother, brother and one of his three sisters quickly devoured it, and to his relief they approved. After a ski trip to Whistler with his children, they took a helicopter to Chilliwack for a family gathering and visited the now-defunct army base where his father was once stationed.

"We walked around and looked into the windows of the old houses," he recalls.

"I remember seeing my father perform these drag shows at these beer gardens they'd have. I'd pick up the bottles for two cents each. He'd dress up like a woman and lip-synch Allan Sherman records. He was a comedian, which was so antithetical to him being a military guy. That conflict was one of the reasons he ultimately let me act. He had enough of a dreamer within him."

Michael J. Fox

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