Hollywood giant Kirk Douglas has passed away at age 103
Though he earned an honorary Oscar in 1996 and was nominated three times , he never won an Academy Award in competition. He might have if he’d been able to star inwhich he had produced and starred in on Broadway. He tried for a decade to bring the project to the screen, only to see his son Michael achieve the feat. The younger Douglas, as producer, claimed the movie’s best picture Oscar, whileDouglas was understandably proud of Michael, whose fame as a leading man rivaled his own.
Douglas, who was married twice and had four sons, claimed to have slept with most of the legendary Hollywood beauties of his day. It wasn’t a boast, just an assertion in line with his particular brand of old-school masculinity.
It wasn’t just machismo that Douglas and his peers put on display, but a pageant of machismo , part of a kind of showmanship that has long since fallen out of favor. It’s to Douglas’ credit that he was able to keep it going for so long, to serve as a living reminder for all those decades of what kind of moxie it took, during the darkest days of the last century, to claw and brawl your way to the top. It was all there in Douglas, carved into that chin, and looking out from those eyes.
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