Kirk Douglas - an appreciation

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He's got to get there yet mind!

Sounds like he did

 

[High Voltage]

Sounds like he did

Hoorah!

Fuck You 2016

 

[Sirena]

'Detective Story' (Detective Story (1951) - IMDb) is on the telly at the moment.

Kirk Douglas plays a detective who loses the plot. It's a very 1950s film with lots of good actors shouting all over the place.

 

[butchersapron]

Old Man with a Horn.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Old Man with a Horn.

That could be the title of a biography about his son Michael.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I grew up resenting him because of the dimple in his chin

 

[Reno]

Next to the Kubrick films, my favourite Kirk Douglas films are Billy Wilder's tabloid media satire Ace in the Hole, The Bad and the Beautiful, an excellent Hollywood melodrama about Hollywood and Disney's steam-punk 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I enjoy the sheer WTFness of The Fury, a mash-up of political thriller and supernatural horror. For entertainingly awful films, few can compete with Saturn 3 in which Douglas and Farrah Fawcett frolic naked around a space station while pursued by a robot with Harvey Keitel's brain.

 

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^^^^^ ^^^^^ Frolicking naked with FFM!

 

[SpookyFrank]

Did everyone else know he was Michael Douglas' dad? Coz I didn't

 

[Sue]

Did everyone else know he was Michael Douglas' dad? Coz I didn't

So you know Martin Sheen is Charlie Sheen's dad, right? Oh, and Emilio Estevez's...

 

[Sue]

Next to the Kubrick films, my favourite Kirk Douglas films are Billy Wilder's tabloid media satire Ace in the Hole, The Bad and the Beautiful, an excellent Hollywood melodrama about Hollywood and Disney's steam-punk 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I enjoy the sheer WTFness of The Fury, a mash-up of political thriller and supernatural horror. For entertainingly awful films, few can compete with Saturn 3 in which Douglas and Farrah Fawcett frolic naked around a space station while pursued by a robot with Harvey Keitel's brain.

I'd go with Paths of Glory, Ace in the Hole and TBATB. Oh, and Out of the Past/Build My Gallows High just because it's a great film in general.

 

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He wasn't picked for Spartacus without good reason......not dead yet then

 

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102. Congrats to him. Another telegram from the queen

 

[moochedit]

102. Congrats to him. Another telegram from the queen

He's in my dead pool

 

[moochedit]

102. Congrats to him. Another telegram from the queen

Do they get one evey year after 100?

 

[blossie33]

Do they get one evey year after 100?

Yes, I think so, you have to apply every year though.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

102! Blimey.

 

[maomao]

Do they get one evey year after 100?

She doesn't do foreigners.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

He's in my dead pool

Probably more sensible to choose someone who can die.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Kirk Douglas, maybe the last of his kind.

102 today! Glad to have been so wrong. Happy birthday Spartacus.

Olivia del Havilland is still alive, too - she's six months older than Douglas and Doris Day (96) is still with us, too.

 

[butcher]

I grew up resenting him because of the dimple in his chin

As my mum always said "Dimple in chin, Devil within...."

 

[moochedit]

She doesn't do foreigners.

Oh yeah. Good point.

 

[tim]

102 today! Glad to have been so wrong. Happy birthday Spartacus.

Olivia del Havilland is still alive, too - she's six months older than Douglas and Doris Day (96) is still with us, too.

I'm glad you're glad. As I have both Kirk and Olivia as my Death Pool nominees, I'm bemused that my deliberate selection of centenarians has been so unsuccessful. It now seems likely that they, alongside Vera Lynne, Earl Cameron and I. M Pei. Will make it back onto my list again next year.

 

[moochedit]

I'm glad you're glad. As I have both Kirk and Olivia as my Death Pool nominees, I'm bemused that my deliberate selection of centenarians has been so unsuccessful. It now seems likely that they, alongside Vera Lynne, Earl Cameron and I. M Pei. Will make it back onto my list again next year.

It's like lottery numbers. You have to keep playing them now.

 

[tim]

She doesn't do foreigners.

She's done it with Phil the Greek at least 4 times.

 

[moochedit]

She's done it with Phil the Greek at least 4 times.

Ba doom ...tish

 

[Reno]

I'm glad you're glad. As I have both Kirk and Olivia as my Death Pool nominees, I'm bemused that my deliberate selection of centenarians has been so unsuccessful. It now seems likely that they, alongside Vera Lynne, Earl Cameron and I. M Pei. Will make it back onto my list again next year.

Olivia de Havilland will outlive the cockroaches. She started her career in the mid-30s, a decade before Douglas and she’s still tough as nails.

 

[tim]

Olivia de Havilland will outlive the cockroaches. She started her career in the mid-30s, a decade before Douglas and she’s still tough as nails.

I fear so!

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Olivia de Havilland will outlive the cockroaches.

I wonder how she felt about outliving her sister, without ever seeming to be reconciled.

 

[Reno]

I wonder how she felt about outliving her sister, without ever seeming to be reconciled.

Possibly quite happy, from everything I’ve read about their feud.