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It's kind of an odd double bill, but not as much once you know the connection: Michael J. Fox is making an appearance tomorrow night at City Arts & Lectures in conversation with author Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemna, The Botany of Desire), who also happens to be Fox's brother-in-law. Pollan's sister, Tracy Pollan, is Fox's wife and former co-star on Family Ties. And we're giving away a pair of tickets! Write a haiku in the Comments section with the words, "omnivore" and "fox" and enter to win a pair of tickets to the SOLD OUT 8 p.m. event at the Herbst Theater on Friday. The winner will be notified by 12:30 p.m. tomorrow. Proceeds from regular premium ticket sales go to benefit the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's disease research.
Michael J. Fox in conversation with Michael Pollan, Herbst Theater, 8 p.m., Friday, May 1st.
UPDATE: And the winner is... Emily Hemingway, whose haiku, truly, is pure poetry (we forgive the 8-syllable second line and omitting the word 'fox' because we're liberal like that, and because she worked in "parkinson's" instead, which we didn't think would be easy to fit):
shaky knees feet freeze
slowly the omnivore of life
Parkinson's disease
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The grapes are not ripe
But the omnivore frets not
The fox will eat hare
the Fox shows us grace
Omnivores continued growth
eats us out of home
Michael on Michael
Fox is fine but sparingly
the omnivore's plight
Famous Michael's here!
Wait, which one? The omnivore,
Or the handsome Fox?
Wonder if even
an omnivore would eat a
little red tail fox
fox eats ms. pollan
with an omnivore's yearning;
family style, it's not
Omnivore channel
my fox
howls at the screen
omnivore’s are scared
of catching swine flu, so now
pork is out, fox in.
Great Scott! Omnivore
the DeLorean could be?
Fox fueled with trash.
Of all omnivores,
the most fecund henceforth known:
"The Old Dirty Fox"
I shutter and shake;
An omnivore who's lacking
The taste of the Fox.
misters pollan, fox
an omnivore and keaton
family ties bind
the big dilemma is
jiggawatts and locavores
will pollan eat fox?
Eating everything is
why onmivores are fatter
than the wily fox
shaky knees feet freeze
slowly the omnivore of life
parkinson's disease
shaky knees feet freeze
foxes omnivore of life
parkinson's disease
Fox's teenage wolf,
The ingenious omnivore:
Fangs bite full beer cans.
fox/pollan in sight.
omnivore's delight, omni-
vore's delight! tonight!
i can forgive the 8 syllables but are you crazy as a...? the winner omits the required "fox".