Kirk Douglas, 1916-2020

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Iconic star of Spartacus and dozens of other movies dies at 103

Having blogged about movies for a dozen years now, I've got a lot of screen caps from one movie or another, showing off his range:

Douglas as a corrupt cop in Detective Story

Douglas with Adolphe Menjou in Stanley Kubrick's anti-war drama Paths of Glory

Douglas eventually stands up to coup plotter Burt Lancaster in Seven Days in May

Douglas as Vincent Van Gogh opposite Anthony Quinn as Paul Gauguin in Lust for Life

Douglas in one of his early movies, Out of the Past

Douglas as an immoral reporter in Ace in the Hole

Douglas fighting half-brother Tony Curtis in The Vikings

Douglas as a boxer in Champion

One of my favorite Douglas movies, The Bad and the Beautiful

And poor Kirk gets upstaged by a seal in Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

I'm sure that sometime after 31 Days of Oscar ends, TCM will have a 24-hour salute to Douglas.

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2/5/205:50 PM

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Blair KielGOOD OL' FAKE BLAIR KIEL - My Hood? nice Henry. Fuck You!

103.

It was time.

2/5/2011:11 PM

PackerHawkMember

Now there's a chin you can set your watch to.

2/6/208:29 AM

MaynardPathetic, an embarrassment to true Packer fans

Loved The Vikings. One of my all time favorite films.

2/6/208:42 AM

mrtundraMember

Douglas's role in defeating the Hollywood Black listing of actors, writers and directors should not be overlooked. "Spartacus" put the nail in the coffin of the Black List, when Douglas gave credit to Dalton Trumbo, a Black List victim, as the script writer for that film.

2/6/208:55 AM

MichiganPacker2Member

mrtundra posted:
Douglas's role in defeating the Hollywood Black listing of actors, writers and directors should not be overlooked. "Spartacus" put the nail in the coffin of the Black List, when Douglas gave credit to Dalton Trumbo, a Black List victim, as the script writer for that film.

People are complicated. Douglas was also linked to less savory aspects of Hollywood culture.

https://www.iheart.com/content...he-globes-honor-him/

2/6/209:19 AM

HenryYou rang?

Just pointing this out. The article you linked was penned by "The Glen Beck Program".

To your point, humans are indeed perplexing, ever changing. Anyone that says their god or their satan resides in heaven or hell and are powerless against either are idiots.

2/6/209:38 AM

MichiganPacker2Member

Henry posted:
Just pointing this out. The article you linked was penned by "The Glen Beck Program".
To your point, humans are indeed perplexing, ever changing. Anyone that says their god or their satan resides in heaven or hell and are powerless against either are idiots.

I despise Glenn Beck. I just picked up the top hit on Google.

Here is something from a more mainstream journalism outlet (The Guardian). The rumor/allegations have been around a long, long time.

https://www.theguardian.com/fi...e-hollywood-makeover

2/6/2011:29 AM

HenryYou rang?

Yeah, I figured. Wasn't meant as a pointed shot at you. I don't pay any attention to Hollywood and its oozing crevasses so its news to me.

2/6/2011:56 AM

MichiganPacker2Member

Henry posted:
Yeah, I figured. Wasn't meant as a pointed shot at you. I don't pay any attention to Hollywood and its oozing crevasses so its news to me.

A lot of Natalie Wood's biographers (and her family) trace her self-destructive tendencies back to the alleged Kirk Douglas rape.

2/6/201:45 PM

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