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“Not the highlight reel, not the version shaped by headlines or
box office numbers, but the real one. I’ve lived a life that
unfolded in public while being deeply private at the same time,
and there’s a difference. This is about where I came from, what
I fought against, and what I chose for myself. Fame can blur the
truth; this is my attempt to bring it back into focus.”
Douglas' book, written in collaboration with Michael Fleming, is
currently untitled. Financial terms were not disclosed; Douglas
was represented by Shane Salerno of the Story Factory.
The 81-year-old actor has been on screen, and in the news, for
decades. The son of Hollywood giant Kirk Douglas, he broke
through in the 1970s in the hit TV series “The Streets of San
Francisco” and went on to star in such cultural touchstones as
“Fatal Attraction,” “Wall Street” and “Basic Instinct.” He also
produced the Oscar-winning “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,” a
project that Douglas' father had longed to take on himself.
Michael Douglas has survived cancer and substance abuse and
otherwise fought to set himself apart from the elder Douglas.
His marriage in November 2000 to fellow actor Catherine
Zeta-Jones, more than 20 years his junior, was initially met
with doubts that their union would last.
“For the first time, Douglas is ready to tell the unfiltered
story of his life in a raw, career-sweeping memoir that traces
his journey from his father, Kirk Douglas’ shadow to his own
stardom,” Grand Central's announcement reads in part.
Along with baring his demons and disappointments, Douglas
“shares his triumphs: his victorious fight against stage-four
cancer and his enduring 25-year marriage to Catherine
Zeta-Jones, which has proved skeptics wrong and become one of
Hollywood’s most enduring love stories,” Grand Central
announced.
Beyond his Academy Awards for acting in “Wall Street” and
producing “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,” Douglas has won
five Golden Globes, a Primetime Emmy and an AFI Lifetime
Achievement Award. Douglas is also a longtime philanthropist and
activist who in 1998 was appointed a Messenger of Peace by
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
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