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But it was another thing to see the intimacy A lot of directors seem to be like the patriarch -- 'All those poor, insecure actors' -- and gain their confidence He is funny " Despite his father's prominence, Douglas spent much of his youth away from Hollywood, growing up on the East Coast with his actress mother and stepfather William Darrid, a Broadway producer and an actor whom he regards as a prime influence He said, 'Sure com/i/rt_str-e com/i/rt_str-e gif" alt="" height="15" width="16" border="0"><img id="ctrlRateNews_147774_RTS5" class="ib" onMouseOver="RMOv(this);" onFocus=RMOv(this); onMouseOut="RMOt(this);" onClick="ROC(this);" onKeyPress="ROC(this)" tabIndex=0 pid="ctrlRateNews_147774" src="http://entimg 250/01" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" width="300" height="250"><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">document "We were shooting on location, a six-day shooting week, 14- or 15-hour days, for 8-1/2 months straight (each year) "That and 'Wall Street' changed my career While Kirk was a movie star long before he turned to producing, Michael was a producer well before he was established as a movie star Overnight, it made Douglas one of the most bankable producers in town when he was still in his early 30s aspx?c=326380 class="art">Curtis Hanson speaks of his "absolute fearlessness," and says he "set the standard by which I'll measure all other actors "He is a very bold actor, who will dare to go where many stars won't and go into the dark side, if he has to," says =/celebs/celeb You see it all the time: There's been a wave of greed 300;hi I don't think he ever thought it was going to happen, but maybe it would be a positive force for me and beneficial for him After acting in small films and on television, he was cast opposite =/celebs/celeb aspx?m=19049 class="art">Paths of Glory" and 1962's "=/movies/movie He is alive I was very pregnant at the time, and we walked out onstage together and the audience just fell about! 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but you look back, and almost every actor in his movies has given his best performance "It was a tough role, very dialogue-heavy, and it also needed a certain amount of authority," he says ' He was very supportive "I reluctantly began, with a lot of stage fright," he recalls aspx%3fnews%3d147774&subject=MSN Entertainment - News - Family Affair&title=Email+This+Page&type=page" class="vl">Email This Page</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;padding-top:20px;padding-left:15px;"><tr><td><span id="ctrlRateNews_147774" style="visibility:hidden"><input type="hidden" name="rating" value="-1"/><table class="r-outer" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><img id="ctrlRateNews_147774_RTI" src="http://entimg " "Stone" turned Douglas into a movie star " His father had done a stage version of Ken Kesey's novel and had dreamed for years of turning it into a film; but after a lengthy attempt to get the picture made, he passed the baton com/i/rt_str-e atdmt When asked about that persona, he says: "My persona is good movies, rather than a certain type of character  '=/movies/movie " It was also a moment that showed Douglas had arrived as a major star, with a presence and persona as distinct as that of his father aspx?m=174025 class="art">The War of the Roses" (1989) and "Cuckoo's aspx?m=168679 class="art">One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and 1979's "=/movies/movie "'Fatal Attraction' was a large commercial success, and surprisingly the audience seemed to go along with me (playing an adulterer) earlier than anticipated," he says aspx?c=306209 class="art">Danny DeVito, whose roommate he would become and with whom he would make several films, including "=/movies/movie aspx?m=106475 class="art">It Happened One Night" to scoop the top five Oscars " Still, after other actors turned down the part, the studio agreed to go ahead with it, for a limited budget, with Douglas toplining , that he zeroed in on acting And hopefully they'll find audiences We felt completely part of the process "I never even thought about producing (as a career)," Douglas says aspx?m=25104 class="art">The China Syndrome 300;hi Then they approached =/celebs/celeb gif" alt="" height="15" width="16" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top: 3px"><span id="ctrlRateNews_147774_RT2" class="r-cap1"> " Since then, Douglas has become a United Nations Messenger of Peace, working on disarmament and nuclear issues aspx?m=135668 class="art">Wonder Boys" (2000) in which he plays a disheveled academic, to USA Films' "=/movies/movie " </td></tr></table></td><td valign="Top"><table class="adtbl" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:300px;border-collapse:collapse;"><tr><td><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:300px;border-collapse:collapse;"><tr><td align="Right" style="color:gray;font-size:7pt;">advertisement</td></tr><tr><td><!--BeginAd(ENT9AO,MediumShowcase)--><iframe src="http://view "(In the film,) he made a speech before all the CEOs in which he says greed is good," Kirk Douglas explains DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Globes -- an award that sees him following in the footsteps of his father Douglas had left "Streets" four years into a five-year contract to make the film msn I asked if I could run with it and try and get it together Douglas admits he was drawn to the picture as a well-crafted thriller rather than because of any political beliefs aspx?c=351094 class="art">Kirk Douglas, with another woman: He was 6 years old aspx?m=69407 class="art">20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,' watching him with that giant squid," he says If Kirk and Michael Douglas are inextricably bound together in the public mind -- that's the price of being Hollywood royalty -- their careers have also had notable differences com/i/rt_0 But he never asked Seeing how greatly the script and his character had improved, Douglas actively went out of his way to contact Soderbergh That is something Douglas has consciously strived for, perhaps influenced by a father who pushed for strong and often controversial material his whole life, resulting in classics such as 1957's "=/movies/movie '" If Soderbergh did, it is because he knew that Douglas would be fully committed to the part, in all its range, in all its complexity The fact that it was on the MGM set of 1952's "=/movies/movie It was also in doing this that he met another actor, =/celebs/celeb But it didn't change his acting career I remember looking at my father doing this love scene, and his catching my eye (as if to say, embarrassed), 'Move out of my sight " Thanks to that series, Douglas says, "I learned that my responsibility as an actor was to make the whole piece work, and that has had a lasting impact or me He is smart," says Stone aspx?c=498295 class="art">Oliver Stone " It is for this double career that he was honored with this year's Cecil B msn With "Attraction," Douglas was astonished when preview audiences began to find his character sympathetic way ahead of the time he expected " It was not until Douglas was required to choose a major while at college in Santa Barbara, Calif But several elements combined to jolt him into a greater awareness: the thinking of co-star =/celebs/celeb Neither of those factors has influenced his choice of roles, he says, before or since, with anything from Sony's thriller "Basic Instinct" (whose steamy sex scenes became the stuff of controversy, as did its seemingly ambivalent attitudes toward homosexuality) to Paramount's "=/movies/movie He deserves that fabulous, exciting, deep, articulate, thrilling babe of a wife he's got!" Looking back on the varied parts he has played, Douglas reflects: "I have worked at it He is a director that doesn't coddle his actors; he pushes them hard aspx?c=361134 class="art">Jack Nicholson, everybody was running to get Mike Douglas' autograph and not Jack Nicholson's!" "Cuckoo's" was not only a hit; it was the first film since 1934's "=/movies/movie "I thought it was a great mix of action and comedy and romance," he recalls It was a great moment "It has been the biggest influence in my life, easily aspx?c=228194 class="art">Steven Soderbergh's Oscar-winning movie in which Douglas plays a father wrestling with his daughter's drug habit while waiting to be appointed to high office Colton in 1984's "=/movies/movie And then we met with Milos, and he opened the script at the first page and talked us through msn Was it frustrating? "Oh sure, it was hard," he says "It was solely the love of that book I think I did (acting) more as a challenge of overcoming stage fright, a long time before I really enjoyed acting I'd like to think I've got a pretty good batting average and would try to continue to do pictures I want to do ' Then I put a call in to him and said, 'Look, I hope you consider me again 300;hi com/i/rt_str-e aspx?m=135062 class="art">The Bad and the Beautiful" seemed almost beside the point com/MSN/view/msnnkhac001300x250xENT9AO00109msn/direct;wi msn msn aspx?m=12751 class="art">Lonely Are the Brave atdmt "This was the '60s, and I was a hippie, and I thought theater was going to be an easy course -- and that's how I started," he explains "Wonder" director =/celebs/celeb aspx?m=125789 class="art">Traffic," =/celebs/celeb " Partly to address this problem, Douglas started to develop projects he could also act in -- among them "Syndrome," the 1979 movie about a nuclear plant on the verge of melt-down that became a phenomenon when its release coincided with an almost identical disaster at Three Mile Island "But I remember going down on the set when my father was doing a love scene with =/celebs/celeb msn gif" alt="" height="15" width="16" border="0"><img id="ctrlRateNews_147774_RTS3" class="ib" onMouseOver="RMOv(this);" onFocus=RMOv(this); onMouseOut="RMOt(this);" onClick="ROC(this);" onKeyPress="ROC(this)" tabIndex=0 pid="ctrlRateNews_147774" src="http://entimg aspx?c=106644 class="art">Karl Malden in ABC's "The Streets of San Francisco "They asked us to present an award " "The man is lovely I try to play different types of roles -- comedy, drama, whatever gif" alt="" height="15" width="16" border="0"><img id="ctrlRateNews_147774_RTS4" class="ib" onMouseOver="RMOv(this);" onFocus=RMOv(this); onMouseOut="RMOt(this);" onClick="ROC(this);" onKeyPress="ROC(this)" tabIndex=0 pid="ctrlRateNews_147774" src="http://entimg aspx?c=124649 class="art">Catherine Zeta-Jones And if Kirk's image remains saliently heroic (from 1960's "=/movies/movie At that time, Zaentz was new to the movie business, but he put his own money into the film Douglas took a significant role in "Syndrome aspx?m=87372 class="art">Fatal Attraction" (both 1987 releases), from wacky adventurer Jack T gif" alt="" height="15" width="16" border="0"><img id="ctrlRateNews_147774_RTS2" class="ib" onMouseOver="RMOv(this);" onFocus=RMOv(this); onMouseOut="RMOt(this);" onClick="ROC(this);" onKeyPress="ROC(this)" tabIndex=0 pid="ctrlRateNews_147774" src="http://entimg "There was a period of meeting different directors, and we were both virgins in this area," Douglas says Now his attempts to move into movie stardom hit a rock " Between father and son, "It took 15 years to get that made; I was involved with it for six years," says Douglas, whose breakthrough came when he met then-record mogul Saul Zaentz " Douglas was the first to get a break atdmt com%2fmovies%2farticle 250/01/" />'); </script></iframe><!--EndAd--></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><table class="adtbl2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:180px;border-collapse:collapse;"><tr><td><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:180px;border-collapse:collapse;padding-top:20px;padding-left:15px;"><tr><td><table class="bg5_1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;"><tr><td class="bg5_2"> </td></tr><tr><td class="bg5_3"><table class="bg5_4" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;"><tr><td><table class="mh_outer5" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:150px;border-collapse:collapse;"><tr><td><table class="mh_inner5" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;"><tr><td><span class="mh_txt5r">More in Celebs</td></tr></table></td></tr></table><table class="box_wt5" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:150px;border-collapse:collapse;"><tr><td class="tb5" valign="Top"><a class="vl6" href="/photos/">Photo Galleries</td></tr><tr><td class="tb5" valign="Top"><a class="vl6" href="/interviews/">Celebrity Interviews</td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td class="bg5_2"> </td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:180px;border-collapse:collapse;padding-top:20px;padding-left:15px;"><tr><td>="/email/?url=http%3a%2f%2fentertainment com/MSN/iview/msnnkhac001300x250xENT9AO00109msn/direct;wi The nicest compliment I ever get is, 'When I see your name, I never know what it's going to be, but it's going to be good aspx?m=36872 class="art">One Night at McCool's" (2001), in which he starred and also produced com/MSN/go/msnnkhac001300x250xENT9AO00109msn/direct;wi " Douglas got more involved with "the whole piece of work" when he asked his father to give him the film rights to "Cuckoo's "A lot of people kept asking, 'Why are you acting? 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