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05 Feb 20 - 07:38 PM (#4032456) Subject: BS: Obit: actor Kirk Douglas 1916 - 2020 From: keberoxu There goes a man from another era. |
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06 Feb 20 - 03:10 AM (#4032476) Subject: RE: BS: Obit: actor Kirk Douglas 1916 - 2020 From: Mr Red I guess he is Spartacus now! |
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06 Feb 20 - 03:16 AM (#4032478) Subject: RE: BS: Obit: actor Kirk Douglas 1916 - 2020 From: fat B****rd Hail Einar ! RIP Mr. Douglas |
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06 Feb 20 - 03:46 AM (#4032487) Subject: RE: Obit: Kirk Douglas From: GUEST,HiLo I read his Autobigraphy, The Ragmans Son ,what life he had and what a rise from poverty to stardom. I know it is a cliche , but truly it is the end of a Hollywood era. |
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06 Feb 20 - 04:04 AM (#4032493) Subject: RE: BS: Obit: actor Kirk Douglas 1916 - 2020 From: Roger the Skiffler He had a whale of a tale. RtS |
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06 Feb 20 - 01:33 PM (#4032586) Subject: RE: Obit: actor Kirk Douglas (1916-2020) From: keberoxu No thread drift is intended here, perhaps a working link will be least intrusive in this thread. Kirk Douglas had an significant association with one of the founders of Sing Out magazine. Howard Fast |
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06 Feb 20 - 03:54 PM (#4032622) Subject: RE: Obit: actor Kirk Douglas (1916-2020) From: Stilly River Sage Howard Fast: I picked up The Immigrants and read the first couple of pages. When he described Ellis Island as a rocky crag in New York Harbor I put the book down and never read another word of his. (Ellis is a mudflat built up over the years with ships' ballast and rubble from the digging of the NY subways). The stories of Issur Danielovitch's family in the early years of the twentieth century sounded interesting - I picked up that Ragman's Son volume, though I don't think I read much of it at the time. It may still be around here somewhere, I had it as part of the research I was doing into life in Lower Manhattan during the busiest years at Ellis Island. What an interesting trajectory his life took in those 103 years. |
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06 Feb 20 - 09:32 PM (#4032667) Subject: RE: Obit: actor Kirk Douglas (1916-2020) From: keberoxu Good, bad or ugly, the name Howard Fast will be associated with Kirk Douglas as long as people remember Kirk Douglas for Spartacus. Of which, obviously, Mr. Fast was very well aware. The still shots of Douglas as Spartacus, though -- that body! Yowzah! |
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07 Feb 20 - 06:19 PM (#4032852) Subject: RE: Obit: actor Kirk Douglas (1916-2020) From: Joe_F I don't know one actor from another. But I somehow became aware that Mr Douglas played in two of my very favorite movies: _Ace in the Hole_ and _Paths of Glory_. |
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07 Feb 20 - 08:21 PM (#4032870) Subject: RE: Obit: actor Kirk Douglas (1916-2020) From: robomatic Today's (Friday Feb 7, 2020) Fresh Air contained an extended excerpt from a broadcast in 1988 where Kirk Douglas talked about his thoughts on acting and producing in Hollywood. Good stuff. Also a remembrance of Kirk Douglas and Elia Kazan aired in 2017 |
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08 Feb 20 - 09:46 AM (#4032951) Subject: RE: Obit: actor Kirk Douglas (1916-2020) From: keberoxu And don't forget the Edward Abbey connection. Kirk Douglas was so impressed by Abbey's novel, The Brave Cowboy, that he had it made into a Western film, Lonely Are The Brave. The novelist Abbey was hired for the film production with "consultant" status, and years later, Abbey declared it the best job he had ever had. |
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11 Feb 20 - 12:25 AM (#4033517) Subject: RE: Obit: actor Kirk Douglas (1916-2020) From: Mrrzy Aw man. And he spoke French, too. |
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11 Feb 20 - 06:52 AM (#4033560) Subject: RE: Obit: actor Kirk Douglas (1916-2020) From: Donuel Remember his black and white films; the alcoholic trumpet player, the journalist who covered the story of a guy trapped underground... |
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11 Feb 20 - 03:47 PM (#4033670) Subject: RE: Obit: actor Kirk Douglas (1916-2020) From: keberoxu I recall an interview in the last five years. It was on the occasion of a mini-series with prominent actresses portraying prominent actresses from an earlier generation. "Feud," was that the name of it? Joan Crawford versus Bette Davis, and in supporting-role status, Olivia de Havilland. Of course, this was Kirk Douglas's generation. It happens that the actress who played de Havilland, Catherine Zeta Jones, is Kirk Douglas's daughter-in-law. She was interviewed, and she volunteered the conversation she had with Kirk Douglas himself about this mini-series film that she was in -- and about the characters in the film. SiriusXM Town Hall discussion |
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11 Feb 20 - 04:50 PM (#4033691) Subject: RE: Obit: actor Kirk Douglas (1916-2020) From: Mrrzy Olivia de Havilland apparently won the bet. |