Michael Douglas on ‘Immortality,’ Kirk Douglas and the Memories He Once Avoided – WTOP News
The memoir says he was physically abused by Kirk Douglas and admits affairs, a brief separation and family struggles.
- On Tuesday, actor Michael Douglas publishes his 500-page memoir, "One Helluva Ride," chronicling his career through the production of cultural touchstones including "Basic Instinct," "Fatal Attraction," and "Wall Street."
- Douglas frames the narrative around his quest to forge an identity apart from his father, Kirk, reflecting on a childhood damaged by violence and divorce while viewing family as an anchor for his legacy.
- The memoir bares painful moments including his divorce from first wife Diandra Luker and son Cameron Douglas's substance abuse battles, alongside his 2010 Stage IV tongue cancer diagnosis that he initially assumed would prove fatal.
- Reflecting on his "Wall Street" Oscar win, Douglas recalls his father saying, "You know, I would have been nicer to you if I knew how successful you were going to be," and acknowledges his marriage to Catherine Zeta-Jones.
- Recently turned 82, Douglas explores his sense of mortality and continuity of generations, anchoring his legacy in family while seeking a "sense of immortality" in a world he fears is breaking down.
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The actor publishes 'One Helluva Ride', a biography where he reviews his 60 years of career in Hollywood, confirms his big lie that lasted 40 years and details the excesses of his agitated sentimental life
How Michael Douglas Began a Secret Affair on the Set of ‘Basic Instinct’ — But Not with Sharon Stone
Michael Douglas reveals in his memoir, ‘One Helluva Ride,’ that while filming 1992’s ‘Basic Instinct’ with Sharon Stone and Jeanne Tripplehorn, he and Tripplehorn had a secret relationship. Douglas contacted Tripplehorn to ask for her permission to detail the affair, he tells PEOPLE.
Michael Douglas turns 82 years old as one of Hollywood's great survivors and, precisely today, October 6, he publishes his memoirs, One Helluva Ride. Sixty years of career, two Oscars, some of the most remembered characters of film and a personal life in which there is no shortage of marriages, infidelities, excesses, disagreements and a ... Continue reading "Michael Douglas tells everything in his memoirs: sex, drugs... and the romance with Kat…
In 2013, it looked like one of the longest Hollywood marriages could fail. At that time, Zeta-Jones and Douglas took temporary separate paths after thirteen years.
New York., Michael Douglas, 82, is a cancer survivor, a recovering addict, a married man, father and son of actors. He is also authored and began his memoirs titled An incredible journey with a message of gratitude to his family for the “sense of immortality.”
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