Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer, primarily in movies and television. He has won three Golden Globes and two Academy Awards; first as producer of 1975's Best Picture, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and as Best Actor in 1987 for his role in Wall Street. Douglas received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2009. He is the eldest of actor Kirk Douglas's four sons.


Early life

Douglas was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the first child of actor Kirk Douglas and Bermudian actress Diana Dill. His paternal grandparents, Harry Demsky (born Herschel Danielovitch) and Bryna Demsky (née Sanglel), were Jewish immigrants from Gomel in Belarus (at that time a part of the Russian Empire). His mother and maternal grandparents, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Melville Dill and Ruth Rapalje Neilson, were natives of Devonshire Parish, Bermuda. Thomas Dill served as Attorney General of Bermuda and was commanding officer of the Bermuda Militia Artillery. Douglas has a younger brother, Joel Douglas (born 1947), and two paternal half-brothers, Peter Douglas (born 1955) and Eric Douglas (1958–2004).


Education

Douglas attended The Choate Preparatory School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut. He received his B.A. in drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1968, where he was also the Honorary President of the UCSB Alumni Association. He studied acting with Wynn Handman at The American Place Theater in New York City.


Career

Early years

Douglas started his film career in the late 1960s and early 1970s, appearing in little known films like Hail, Hero! and Summertree. His first significant role came in the TV series The Streets of San Francisco from 1972 to 1976, where he starred alongside Karl Malden. Douglas later said that Malden became a "mentor" and someone he "admired and loved deeply". After Douglas left the show, he had a long association with his mentor until Malden's death on July 1, 2009. In 2004, Douglas presented Malden with the Monte Cristo Award of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut, for the Lifetime Achievement Award.

In 1975, Douglas received from his father, Kirk Douglas, the rights to the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Michael went on to produce the film of the same name with Saul Zaentz. Kirk Douglas considered playing the starring role himself, having starred in an earlier stage version, but chose against it, considering himself too old. The lead role went instead to a young Jack Nicholson, who would go on to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. Douglas won the Award for Best Picture for producing the film.

After leaving Streets of San Francisco in 1976, Douglas played a hospital doctor in the medical thriller Coma (1978), and in 1979 he played the role of a troubled marathon runner in Running. In 1979, he both produced and starred in The China Syndrome, a dramatic film co-starring Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon about a nuclear power plant accident (the Three Mile Island accident took place 12 days after the film's release). The film was considered "one of the most intelligent Hollywood films of the 1970s."


Success in Hollywood

Douglas' acting career was propelled to fame when he produced and starred in the 1984 romantic adventure comedy Romancing the Stone. It also helped launch Kathleen Turner to stardom, reintroduced Douglas as a capable leading man, and gave director Bob Zemeckis his first box-office success. It was followed a year later by a sequel, The Jewel of the Nile, which he also produced.

The year 1987 saw Douglas star in the thriller Fatal Attraction with Glenn Close. That same year he played tycoon Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's Wall Street for which he received an Academy Award as Best Actor. He reprised his role as Gekko in the sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps in 2010, also directed by Stone.

Douglas again paired with Kathleen Turner for the 1989 film The War of the Roses, which also starred Danny DeVito. In 1989, he starred in Ridley Scott's international police crime drama Black Rain opposite Andy García and Kate Capshaw. The film was shot in Osaka, Japan.

In 1992, Douglas had another successful starring role when he appeared alongside Sharon Stone in the film Basic Instinct. The movie was a box office hit, and sparked controversy over its depictions of bisexuality and lesbianism. In 1994, Douglas and Demi Moore starred in the hit movie Disclosure focusing on the topic of sexual harassment with Douglas playing a man harassed by his new female boss. Other popular films he starred during these decade were Falling Down, The American President, The Ghost and the Darkness, The Game (directed by David Fincher), and a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's classic - Dial M for Murder - titled A Perfect Murder. In 1998, Douglas received the Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

In 2000, Douglas starred in Steven Soderbergh's critically acclaimed film Traffic, opposite Benicio del Toro and future wife Catherine Zeta-Jones. That same year, he also received critical acclaim for his role in Wonder Boys as a professor and novelist suffering from writer's block. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama as well as several other awards from critics.


Types of roles

According to film historian and critic David Thomson, Douglas was capable of playing characters who were "weak, culpable, morally indolent, compromised, and greedy for illicit sensation without losing that basic probity or potential for ethical character that we require of a hero." Critic and author Rob Edelman points out similarities in many of Douglas's roles, writing that in some of his leading films, he personified the "contemporary, Caucasian middle-to-upper-class American male who finds himself the brunt of female anger because of real or imagined sexual slights."

These themes of male victimization are seen in films such as Fatal Attraction (1987), with Glenn Close, War of the Roses (1989), with Kathleen Turner, Basic Instinct (1992), Sharon Stone, Falling Down (1993), and Disclosure (1994), with Demi Moore. For his characters in films such as these, "any kind of sexual contact with someone other than his mate and the mother of his children is destined to come at a costly price." Edelman describes his characters as the "Everyman who must contend with, and be victimized by, these women and their raging, psychotic sexuality."

Conversely, Douglas also played powerful characters with dominating personalities equally well: as Gordon Gekko, in both versions of Wall Street, he acted the role of a "greedy yuppie personification of the Me generation," convinced that "greed is good;" in Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile, he played an idealistic soldier of fortune; in The Star Chamber (1983), he was a court judge fed up with an inadequate legal system, leading him to become involved with a vigilante group; and in Black Rain (1989), he proved he could also play a Stallone-like action hero as a New York City cop.


Actor and producer

Having become recognized as both a successful producer and actor, he describes himself as "an actor first and a producer second." He has explained why he enjoys both functions:

    "I love the fact that on one side, with acting, you can be a child — acting is wonderful for its innocence and the fun. . . On the other side, producing is fun for all the adult kinds of things you do. You deal in business, you deal with the creative forces. As an adult who continues to get older, you like the adult risks. It's flying without a net, taking chances and learning. I was never good in economics or business — had no business background, you know, and I like it."

He has also offered reasons why he has become successful in both acting and producing:

    "I think I'm a chameleon. I think it's something that I possibly inherited early on as a child going back and forth between two families. I know that whether it's right or wrong, I have an ability to sort of fit into a lot of different situations and make people feel relatively comfortable in a wide range without giving up all my moral values. I think that same chameleonlike quality can transfer into films. I think if you can remember the reason you got involved with it in the first place and try to keep that impulsive, instinctive feeling even when you're being beaten down or exhausted or waylaid, you'll be successful."


Recent years

In 2003, Douglas starred in It Runs in the Family, which featured three generations of his family (his parents, Kirk and Diana, as well as his own son, Cameron). The film, although a labor of love, was not successful, critically or at the box office. Douglas starred in the solid commercial action flick Don't Say a Word, then the poorly received action-thriller The Sentinel in 2006. During that time, he also guest-appeared on the episode, "Fagel Attraction", of the popular television sitcom Will and Grace, as a gay cop attracted to Will Truman (Eric McCormack); the performance earned Douglas an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Show.

Douglas was approached for Basic Instinct 2, but he declined to participate in the project. He said:

    "Yes, they asked me to do it a while ago, I thought we had done it very effectively; [Paul] Verhoeven is a pretty good director. I haven't seen the sequel. I've only done one sequel in my life, The Jewel of the Nile, from Romancing The Stone. Besides, there were age issues, you know? Sharon still looks fabulous. The script was pretty good. Good for her, she's in her late-40s, and there are not a lot of parts around. The first one was probably the best picture of her career—it certainly made her career and she was great in it".


Future engagements

Douglas was set to star in Tragic Indifference, a courtroom thriller based on a landmark liability case against Ford Motor Company, according to Variety. Douglas will play the attorney who took Ford to court on behalf of a single mother from Texas who was paralyzed and nearly died after an accident. The trial exposed the automaker's indifference to flaws in its Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV). The movie will be based on Adam Penenberg's 2003 book of the same name. Douglas will play Attorney Tab Turner, who represented Donna Bailey after the Ford Explorer SUV she was riding in rolled over following a Firestone tire failure.

On December 17, 2007 it was announced that Douglas would announce the introduction to NBC Nightly News, some two years after Howard Reig, the previous announcer, retired.


Personal life

Family

After filming Summertree (1971), he began dating Brenda Vaccaro. The relationship lasted for about six years.

In March 1977, 33 year old Douglas married 19 year old Diandra Luker, the daughter of an Austrian diplomat. They had one son, Cameron, born in 1978. In 1997 Diandra filed for divorce and was awarded $45 million as her settlement.

Dating since March 1999, Douglas married Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones on November 18, 2000. They were both born on September 25, though 25 years apart. Zeta-Jones says that when they met in Deauville, France, Douglas used the line "I want to father your children ". They have two children, Dylan Michael (born August 8, 2000) and Carys Zeta (born April 20, 2003).

They planned on renewing their wedding vows in 2010 as part of their 10th wedding anniversary. The idea was hers, and came after Douglas was found to have advanced stages of cancer. One report notes that "Michael was in tears when she suggested it to him," and he sees it as a “wonderful expression of love.”

Douglas, the son of a Jewish father and an Anglican mother, has declared no religious affiliation.


Citizenship

Douglas is a U.S. citizen by birth in the United States and has Bermudian Status through his mother's birth in Bermuda.


Skiing accident and rehab

In 1980, Douglas was involved in a serious skiing accident which sidelined his acting career for three years. In September 1992, the same year Basic Instinct came out, he underwent treatment for alcoholism and drug addiction at Sierra Tucson Center.


Legal problems

In 1997, New York caddy James Parker sued Douglas for $25 million. Parker accused Douglas of hitting him in the groin with an errant golf ball, causing Parker to lose a testicle and his job. The case was later settled out of court.


Stalking

In 2004, Douglas and Zeta-Jones took legal action against stalker Dawnette Knight, who was accused of sending violent letters to the couple that contained graphic threats on Zeta-Jones' life. Testifying, Zeta-Jones said the threats left her so shaken she feared a nervous breakdown. Knight claimed she had been in love with Douglas and admitted to the offences, which took place between October 2003 and May 2004. She was sentenced to three years in prison.


Health problems

It was announced on August 16, 2010, that Douglas was suffering from throat cancer and will undergo chemotherapy and radiation treatment. On August 31, 2010 Douglas appeared on Late Show with David Letterman  and confirmed that the cancer was at an advanced stage IV. Douglas attributed the cancer to a combination of stress, his previous alcohol abuse, and years of heavy smoking.

In November 2010, Douglas was put on a special weight gain diet by his doctors due to the excessive weight loss leaving him weak. On January 11, 2011, he said in an interview that the tumor was gone. He admitted that the illness and aggressive treatment had caused him to lose 32 lbs in weight. He will have to have monthly screenings because there is a very high chance that the cancer could return over the course of the next two to three years. Although Douglas has described the cancer as throat cancer, many doctors believe he was actually diagnosed with oropharyngeal cancer.


Activism

Political activities

Douglas and Zeta-Jones hosted the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo, Norway, on December 11, 2003. They acted as co-masters of ceremony in the concert celebrating the award given to Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi. In 2006, Douglas was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

He is an advocate of nuclear disarmament, a supporter of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and sits on the Board of Directors of the anti-war grantmaking foundation Ploughshares Fund. In 1998, he was appointed UN Messenger of Peace by Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He is a notable Democrat and has donated money to Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd, and Al Franken He has been a major supporter of gun control since John Lennon was murdered in 1980.

In 2006 he was a featured speaker in a public service campaign sponsored by a UN conference to focus attention on trade of illicit arms, especially of small arms and light weapons. Douglas made several appearances and offered his opinions:

    "The conference is an opportunity for UN member states to build on the Program of Action and to encourage countries to strengthen their laws on the illicit trade, . . . an issue that affects us all . . .[and] while owning guns is a legal right in most countries, the illegal trade in guns continues to fuel conflict, crime and violence."

A few years earlier, in 2003, Douglas hosted a "powerful film" on child soldiers and the impact of combat on children in countries such as Sierra Leone. During the documentary film, Douglas interviewed children, and estimated that they were among 300,000 other children worldwide who have been conscripted or kidnapped and forced to fight. Of one such child he interviewed, Douglas stated, "After being kidnapped by a rebel group, he was tortured, drugged, and forced to commit atrocities." Douglas discussed his role as a Messenger Peace for the UN:

"I'm in an enviable position . . . When I talk about movies I can talk about messages of peace, and infuse them into the entertainment pages."


Humanitarian initiatives

In 2009 Douglas joined the project Soldiers of Peace, a movie against all wars and for global peace.

Douglas lent his support for the campaign to release Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman, who after having been convicted of committing adultery, was given a sentence of death by stoning.

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Filmography


1966    Cast a Giant Shadow
1969    Hail, Hero!
1970    Adam at Six A.M.
1971    Summertree
1972    Napoleon and Samantha
1975    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1978    Coma
1979    Running
1979    The China Syndrome
1980    It's My Turn
1983    The Star Chamber
1984    Romancing the Stone
1985    A Chorus Line
1985    The Jewel of the Nile
1987    Fatal Attraction
1987    Wall Street
1989    The War of the Roses
1989    Black Rain
1992    Basic Instinct
1992    Shining Through
1992    Oliver Stone: Inside Out
1993    Falling Down
1994    Disclosure
1995    The American President
1996    The Ghost and the Darkness
1997    The Game
1998    A Perfect Murder
1999    One Day in September
1999    Get Bruce
2000    Wonder Boys
2000    Traffic
2001    Don't Say a Word
2001    In Search of Peace
2001    One Night at McCool's
2003    The In-Laws
2003    It Runs in the Family
2003    Direct Order
2003    Tell Them Who You Are
2006    You, Me and Dupree
2006    The Sentinel
2007    King of California
2009    Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
2009    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
2009    Solitary Man
2010    Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2012    Haywire

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Majkl Daglas: Zdrav sam, hoću da igram golf

Holivudski glumac Majkl Daglas, koji je pre osam meseci pobedio rak grla, izjavio je da se oseća dobro i da jedva čeka da ponovo igra golf.


Majkl Daglas i Ketrin Zita Džons ponovo uživaju u zajedničkim trenucima

Majkl Daglas je teške dane ostavio iza sebe i sada se opet veseli svom poslu i trenucima provedenim sa suprugom Ketrin Zitom Džons. Par je nedavno viđen u loži na golf turniru u Škotskoj.

"Osećam se dobro i radujem se vikendu jer već dugo nisam igrao golf. Nedostajala mi je ta igra", otkrio je glumac i dodao: "Moj apetit se vratio u normalu tako da stalno jedem - ugojio sam se osam kilograma".

Kako zvezda tvrdi, najveću podršku mu je pružala upravo njegova žena, koja je zbog svega što ih je zadesilo i sama bila u lošem zdravstvenom stanju - dijagnostikovan joj je bipolarni poremećaj koji izaziva nagle promene raspoloženja i mora se kontrolisati lekovima.

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Životna priča – Majkl Daglas: Bolest mi je kazna za grehe iz mladosti

Veliku borbu sa kancerom grla slavni holivudski glumac Majkl Daglas shvatio je kao kaznu za svoje poročno ponašanje, opijanje i korišćenje narkotika, a najdelotvorniji lek nalazi u drugoj supruzi Ketrin i deci

Dokaz za to da najjači opstaju i kada im sreća okrene leđa jeste dvostruki dobitnik Oskara, holivudski glumac Majkl Daglas. Tokom života uvek se trudio da pozitivnim mislima i beskrajnom verom u ljubav pobedi svoje unutrašnje demone i prebrodi sve neprilike. Baš na taj način ovaj umetnik danas vodi svoju najtežu bitku, borbu sa kancerom grla, koja po pisanju američkih medija i dalje traje iako je završio sa hemoterapijom. Rođen je 25. septembra 1944. godine u Nju Džersiju kao najstariji sin glumice Dajane Dil i čuvenog glumca Kirka Daglasa, a njegov mlađi brat Džoel takođe je bio glumac. Već u najranijem detinjstvu primetio je da za njega ne postoji drugi put, osim glumačkog. Po ugledu na svoga oca, znao je da je reč o teškom poslu, ali i da su slava, moć i bogatstvo, ono nešto što ovu profesiju čini lakšom i lepšom.

- Rođen sam i odrastao u glumačkoj porodici, pa nije bilo smisla da postanem inženjer ili doktor, pošto sam još kao dete imao priliku da vidim koliko je lepo biti glumac. Roditelji nikada nisu uticali na moju odluku da počnem da se bavim glumom, a rekao bih da ih ja nisam puno ni zanimao u tom smislu. Danas kada imam svoju decu, trudim se da ispravim neke njihove greške. Ne mogu da kažem da su bili loši, samo nisu imali dovoljno vremena za brata i mene, ali ne zameram im, pogotovo ne tati, jer sada znam kako je to biti velika glumačka zvezda - kaže Majkl koji je posle završene srednje škole i glumačke akademije u Santa Barbari odmah dobio svoju prvu veliku ulogu u televizijskoj seriji Ulice san Franciska koja je krajem šezdesetih i početkom sedamdesetih godina bila veoma popularna.

- Za razliku od druge dece, nisam imao klasično detinjstvo. Nisam trčao po ulicama i nisam se bavio sportom. Mamu i tatu retko sam viđao jer su non-stop bili na snimanjima, dok su mene čuvali ljudi zaposleni u filmskim kompanijama. Volim da kažem kako sam odrastao po filmskim studijima gde su mi se svi dodvoravali jer mi je tata već tada bio filmska legenda. To je hranilo moju sujetu i možda sam zbog toga postao lošiji čovek. Tokom studentskih dana bio sam veoma arogantan i neprijatan, zbog čega se kajem i već godinama to pokušavam da ispravim. Čini mi se da kako starim sve češće razmišljam o stvarima koje sam radio u prošlosti i na koje nisam ponosan, pa zbog toga sada pokušavam da budem što prijatnija i bolja osoba - kaže glumac koji je 1975. godine prvi napustio seriju koja mu je donela popularnost širom Amerike i rešio da se oproba kao producent. Od slavnog tate dobio je autorska prava na priču Let iznad kukavičjeg gnezda i rešio je da se oproba u ulozi producenta. Iako je na početku želeo da sam igra glavnu mušku ulogu, shvatio je da bi to bolje pristajalo Džeku Nikolsonu sa kojim je od tada postao nerazdvojan prijatelj, a ovaj film im je obojci doneo po jednog Oskara.

- Želeo sam da probam nešto novo, a Let iznad kukavičjeg gnezda bila je savršena priča za mene. Iako ljudi koji produciraju i glume sebi obično daju glavne uloge, ja sam želeo da u mom prvom filmu igra Džek Nikolson koga i danas smatram najboljim glumcem svih vremena i kome se, iako je malo mlađi od mene, veoma divim. U svojoj dosadašnjoj karijeri izdvojio bih taj film kao omiljeni posao koji sam radio - kaže Majkl koji je posle toga glumio u nekim osrednjim filmovima sve dok 1978. godine nije zaigrao u ostvarenju Kineski sindrom sa koleginicom Džejn Fondom, a koji je bio njegov ulazak na velika vrata Holivuda, i kao glumca i kao producenta. Iste godine kada je njegova karijera krenula uzlaznom putanjom i u njegovom privatnom životu dešavale su se lepe stvari. Posle samo šest nedelja zabavljanja oženio se svojom četrnaest godina mlađom izabranicom Diandrom Loker, a samo nekoliko meseci kasnije ostvario se i u ulozi oca kada je na svet došao njegov sin prvenac Kameron.

- Bio je to jedan miran period mog života, ali ne mogu da kažem da sam bio srećan. Uvek sam imao osećaj kao da mi nešto nedostaje, a nisam bio siguran šta. Možda je to bila ljubav, a možda samo strast. Diandru sam poznavao kratko, ali sam rešio da se njome oženim. To su neke odluke koje donosite srcem. Bilo je ljudi koji su me odgovarali od toga jer se nismo poznavali dovoljno i zato što je ona dosta mlađa od mene, ali ja sam je doživljavao kao svoju i želeo sam to da uradim. Inače sam osoba koja radi stvari koje smatra ispravnim i ne puštam previše druge da se mešaju u moje odluke - kaže Daglas i opisuje osećaj kada je prvi put uzeo svog sina u ruke.

- To je osećaj koji ne može da se meri ni sa čim. Obožavam ulogu tate, to je najdivnija stvar na svetu. Kameron je bio dobro dete dok je bio mali i zaista nismo imali problema sa njim. Bio je tih i povučen, a ja sam ga obožavao. Provodili smo dosta vremena zajedno i ne znam gde sam pogrešio kada je o njemu reč, ali kako su godine prolazile postajao je sve razmaženiji i bazobrazniji, ali ga nikada nisam ostavljao, niti ga osuđivao - kaže Majkl.

Početkom osamdesetih glumac je doživeo nezgodu na skijanju pa nakon teške povrede noge i brojnih operacija nije glumio tri godine jer je bio gotovo prikovan za krevet, a baš u tom periodu utehu je pronašao u alkoholu.

- Bilo mi je teško jer sam bio utučen i depresivan. Iako sam bio na početku karijere, nisam mogao da radim. Tih godina sam počeo da pijem, što mi je bilo jedino zanimljivo, a i bilo mi je lakše da prebrodim probleme koje sam imao sa nogom. Glupo je tražiti opravdanja kad ogreznete u poroke jer neke stvari se jednostavno dogode iz čiste gluposti i nerazmišljanja - kaže glumac koji je posle četvorogodišnje pauze zaigrao u filmu Romancing the Stone  koji mu je doneo titulu miljenika žena, ali i otvorio vrata za mnoge buduće uloge. U tom periodu postao je jedan od najplaćenijih glumaca Holivuda, a baš to učinilo je da još jednom pokuca na vrata poroka. Posle alkohola, na red je došla droga.

- To su vrlo ružne stvari. Imam decu i svestan sam da je to problem koji ne bih nikome poželeo. Pod uticajem droge živite u nekom nerealnom svetu i sve vam se samo čini lepim, a u stvari ste u paklu. Dugo nisam želeo da priznam sebi da imam problem, a onda sam jednog dana shvatio da sam postao loš muž i otac, i najgori prijatelj. Niko me osim sebe nije zanimao. Svi su mi bili glupi i nezanimljivi, što je zapravo iskrivljena slika koju sam zbog droge imao u glavi. Ja sam bio glup i nezanimljiv. Baš zbog toga sam jednog dana rešio da odem i potražim stručnu pomoć. Lečio sam se oko deset meseci u Sijera Tukson Centru. Tamo sam shvatio da mi vreme uzaludno prolazi i da sam se potpuno promenio, a kada sam prepoznao problem u sebi, prestao sam da razmišljam o drogi. I danas volim psihijatre i redovno ih posećujem - kaže Majkl.

Iako su mnogo muke prošli zajedno i vrlo često delovali kao najskladniji par u Americi, posle dvadeset tri godine braka, početkom 2000. godine Diandra je ostavila slavnog glumca. Mada su mediji već tada pisali kako je razlog njihovog rastanka njegova preljuba i nasilničko ponašanje, ova dama nikada nije volela javno da govori o njihovom razvodu, osim što je jednom izjavila kako je on težak čovek pun sebe sa kojim je nekada nemoguće izaći na kraj, a sa tim se složio i Oskarovac.

- Nas dvoje smo prošli mnogo toga zajedno, a vremenom smo postali veoma dobri prijatelji. Diandra je bila uz mene i dok sam se lečio i bio na dnu, ali isto tako i kada sam bio na vrhuncu svoje karijere i dodirivao zvezde. Ona je sjajna žena i dobra majka, a ja sam jednostavno ponekad težak i sam sebi, a kamoli ženama. Nikada je nisam fizički povredio jer sam ja pre svega džentlmen. Možda sam nekada vikao na nju, ali se ne sećam, jednostavno nije išlo, a i više nismo bili ljubavnici - kaže glumac.

Samo nekoliko meseci posle razvoda, glumac je rešio ponovo da se venča, ovog puta sa dvadeset pet godina mlađom koleginicom Ketrin Zitom Džouns u koju se, kako i sam voli da kaže, zaljubio na prvi pogled kada su se sreli u Francuskoj.

- To je stvarno bila ljubav na prvi pogled. Čim sam je ugledao prišao sam joj i pitao da li mogu da budem otac njene dece što je ona shvatila kao šalu. Nekoliko meseci kasnije postala je moja supruga. Možda ja jesam težak čovek i pomalo nesrećan, ali se nikada nisam samosažaljevao i imao negativne misli. Smatram da baš zbog tog mog optimizma žene ne mogu da mi odole, pa nije mogla ni ona koja je najlepša na svetu - s osmehom kaže glumac koji sa slavnom koleginicom ima dvoje dece, desetogodišnjeg Dilana Majkla i sedmogodišnju Keris Zetu za koje tvrdi da su njegovo najveće blago i da su ga potpuno promenili. 

- Čini mi se da se u poznijim godinama bolje snalazim kao otac. Izgleda da ranije nisam bio toliko spreman za porodicu kao što sam sada. Obožavam svoje mališane jer su od mene napravili mnogo srdačnijeg čoveka. Mogu da kažem da sam sad srećan čovek i da imam sve što mi je potrebno. Ketrin je divna supruga i divan čovek, volim je od sveg srca - kaže glumac koji je u avgustu ove godine započeo bitku sa rakom grla koju i dalje bije.

- Slagao bih vas kada bih vam rekao da se nisam uplašio kada su mi saopštili da sam bolestan, ali samo zbog svoje dece jer ne bih voleo da gledaju kako se mučim pa da pored mene i oni pate. Bolest sam doživeo kao kaznu jer nisam vodio računa o svom zdravlju kada sam bio mlad, već sam dosta pio i pušio. Ona je neka vrsta kazne za sve grehe iz moje mladosti. Sada sam završio sa hemoterapijom i doktori kažu da mi je bolje, mada se ja ne osećam baš najjače. Konzumiram svakodnevno najbolji lek na svetu, a to je osmeh moje supruge koji mi daje snagu da se borim i pobedim jer želim da živim i da uživam u blagodetima svoje porodice. Imam osećaj da nekako još nije došao trenutak da se rastajemo - zaključuje Daglas.

Izvor: Story

Majkl Daglas u reklami poziva biznismene na poštenje

Majkl Daglas je, uprkos ulozi beskrupuloznog bankarskog magnata u filmu "Volstrit", trenutno junak neobične reklamne kampanje američke federalne policije (FBI).

Kako prenose američki mediji, FBI je angažovao slavnog holivudskog glumca da bude njegov portparol u kampanji protiv malverzacija u svetu biznisa.

Njegov zadatak je da menadžere velikih kompanija upućuje na pravi put, savetujući im da ne pokušavaju da se obogate na nelegalan način.

"U filmu 'Volstrit' igrao sam Gordona Geka, pohlepnog tajkuna koji je varao radi profita dok su nedužni investitori propadali. Film je bio fikcija, ali je problem realan. Naša privreda uveliko zavisi od integriteta finansijskih tržišta", poručio je glumac koji je nedavno pobedio rak grla.

Daglas je apelovao na američke građane da kontaktiraju najbližu kancelariju FBI-a ukoliko primete "dil koji deluje previše lepo da bi bio stvaran".

Izvor: Blic