NAMES IN THE NEWS : Wedding Not for Media, Fox Says

“Tracy and I may work in the circus, but we definitely are not animals,” declared Michael J. Fox, discussing the furor that surrounded his wedding to actress Tracy Pollan last summer when the couple refused to accommodate the press.

“I know we could have gone to the end of the driveway and let them take a picture, and that would have been the end of it,” Fox said in an interview to be published this Sunday in Parade magazine.

“But that wasn’t the point. Our wedding was a very personal thing,” he said. “The thing about our wedding that stands out is that it was a really great time. The fact that there was this weird assemblage of humanity outside didn’t detract at all.”

Commenting on his “nice guy” image, Fox credited his family for his outlook on life. “My family are real good people,” he said. “They don’t take anything for granted, so I try not to take anything for granted. For instance, when things really started taking off, with ‘Family Ties’ hitting its stride and ‘Back to the Future,’ people that I’d known casually would have no problem asking me for $50,000. But my mother stuttered and stammered over whether I’d autograph a ‘Family Ties’ mug for the Ladies Auxiliary tea. I’ve always been really impressed by that. They taught me to have respect for people.”

Proudly discussing 7-month-old son Sam, Fox commented, ‘I see enough of myself in him to scare me.’