![]() “I was never with her in the recording studio. We went through it page by page, and then we’d do it again - and again. I had my laptop and she had a print-out in a three-ring binder. “We went over the manuscript multiple times. It’s her story and she wrote it in her voice,” he said. “I wasn’t ghostwriting or taking dictation. “She has an iPad and a Mac book that she types on, but it’s hard for her.” Writing side by sideĮven so, Ronstadt was completely hands on as she and Downes wrote and honed “Feels Like Home” side by side in her San Francisco home. “Linda can type, but very slowly and her fingers tremble,” he said. It wasn’t this bad when I was writing (her 2013 memoir) ‘Simple Dreams,’ because my condition wasn’t as advanced as it is now.”ĭownes, the co-author of “Feels Like Home,” elaborated on Ronstadt’s condition in an interview from his New York home on Long Island. I have a lot of involuntary moments because of Parkinson’s and progressive supranuclear palsy. “That’s another reason I needed a lot of help with this book. “I can’t type,” she said matter-of-factly. Happily, her voice rings loud and clear on nearly every page of “Feels Like Home,” which was both a labor of love and a labor. “I can always harmonize in my head, even without music playing,” Ronstadt said, speaking by phone from her San Francisco home. Walking is difficult and she uses hearing aids, although she attributes the latter simply as a sign of growing old. Previously simple tasks, such as eating or brushing her teeth, are now challenges that require considerable concentration for this genre-leaping vocal legend. Under either name, her singing career came to an abrupt end and her life was profoundly changed. Her condition was rediagnosed in 2019 as also having progressive supranuclear palsy, an incurable degenerative disease. Ronstadt was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2012. She made her last recording, a collaboration with Ry Cooder and The Chieftains, in 2010. Her final concert was a 2009 performance of songs from her Mariachi music-celebrating 1987 release, “Canciones de Mi Padre” (“Songs of My Father”), the top-selling non-English language album in U.S. Hearing Ronstadt’s luminous voice in full flight on the “Feels Like Home” compilation album will likely be an emotional experience for many listeners. Fox Movie is available May 12 on Apple TV+.(NBC / NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images) Fox said at the time, “It’s a movie about my life, and if we’re going to be real about it, let the filmmakers have access to that.” In his review for The Hollywood Reporter, chief TV critic Daniel Fienberg praised the feature’s “tight focus and distinctive style” and wrote that it “delivers an essence of Fox’s energy and generation-spanning appeal.”ĭuring a visit to the THR Studio at Sundance in January, Fox explained that he didn’t want to place any limits on the footage that Guggenheim felt compelled to include. I’m not going to 80.”įilmmaker Davis Guggenheim directed Still, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and celebrates Fox’s life through interviews, photos and archival footage. ![]() So I’ve been thinking of the mortality of it. You don’t die from Parkinson’s you die with Parkinson’s. Falling and aspirating food and getting pneumonia - all these subtle ways that get you. Fox said that falling “is a big killer with Parkinson’s.
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