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Connie: Tapping's not my strongest point!
Larry: I see that.
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Sheila: My mother was kind of middle-aged and frumpy.
Diana: Whose isn't?
Sheila: At fourteen she was middle-aged and frumpy.
Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas (Michael Douglas), born in New Jersey on September 25, 1944, graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara , and is an American film actor and producer.
In 1976, he won the Oscar for Best Picture as the producer of " One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ", and in 1987, he won the Oscar for Best Actor for the film " Wall Street ". In 2000, he married British actress Catherine Zeta-Jones who was 24 years younger than him . In June 2009, Michael Douglas was awarded the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award
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. In 2010, he once again launched " Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps " with Oliver Stone . In August 2010, he was diagnosed with throat cancer. In 2014, with " Behind the Candelabra " won the best actor award in a miniseries/TV movie, Michael Douglas joined the Marvel movie " Ant-Man " and starred in the first generation of Ant-Man Dr. Henry Jonathan Pym
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. In January 2019, he won the Best Actor in a Music/Comedy Series at the 76th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards with " The Kominsky Method " .
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Performing Experience
Michael Douglas (Michael Douglas) is the eldest son of Kirk Douglas and was born in a military school. In the mid-1960s, he studied in a studio as an assistant director, and then became active in television, stage and film. In 1972, he produced and performed the TV series "Old and Young"
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Douglas was known to the audience for " Streets of San Francisco " in his early years . In this police drama on the American Broadcasting Corporation (DBC) from 1972 to 1977, Douglas played agent Steve Keller and collaborated with Karl Malden . Douglas made his film debut as a producer. In 1975, " One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest " won the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Leading Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. Since then, he has appeared in films including " The China Syndrome " and "Treasures of the Nile"
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In 1984, his starring " Romancing the Stone " was released
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In 1987, Douglas starred in " Basic Instinct 2 " and " Wall Street ", respectively playing the middle-aged man who betrayed his wife and stealing food, and the pretentious and sleek Wall Street criminal Gordon Geko who manipulated the lever of power. This year, after Douglas won the Oscar as a producer, he won the Oscar for Best Actor for his performance on the podium in "Wall Street". He successively took over a series of roles- the husband who retaliated with his wife in " War of the Roses; The War of the Roses ", the San Francisco policeman who was teased by Sharon Stone in " Basic Instinct ", and " Disclosure " The supervisor who was sexually harassed by the female boss
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In the movie " It Runs in the Family " he produced in 2003, three generations of Douglas got together and performed the bitterness and bitterness of a family.
In October 2007, Douglas accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Savannah Film Festival in Georgia
. In September 2008, Douglas signed a contract for the feature film " Solitary Man "
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In 2009, under the background of another economic crisis after 22 years, Douglas returned to "Wall Street" and collaborated with director Oliver Stone for the second time to shoot the sequel to "Wall Street". In the sequel, Douglas will continue to play the role of Gordon Geko who believes in "greed is God" and once brought him an Oscar trophy
. In June of the same year, Michael Douglas was awarded the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award
.
On May 24, 2010, the American Film Institute held its 37th anniversary celebration at the Alice Tully Hall in New York, and at the same time presented the "Chaplin Award" to Michael Douglas
. On June 3, his thriller mystery film " Beyond a Reasonable Doubt " was released in China
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On January 13, 2011, the Palm Springs Film Festival presented the Icon Award to Michael Douglas at a celebration held in California
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In 2012, the filming of " Last Vegas " co-starred by Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman , Robert De Niro and Kevin Kline officially started
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On the evening of February 24, 2013, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones appeared on the red carpet of the 85th Academy Awards
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In 2014, with " Behind the Candelabra " won the Golden Globe Awards for the best actor in a miniseries/TV movie, Michael Douglas joined the Marvel movie " Ant-Man " and starred in a generation of Ant-Man Henry Jonathan Pym (Hank Pym). ), this is also his first time participating in a superhero movie
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In 2018, starred in the single-camera comedy " The Kominsky Method " launched on Netflix
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On February 17, 2023, the film "Ant-Man 3: Quantum Mania" with Michael Douglas was released.
Personal Life
Michael Douglas's father is the actor Kirk Douglas and he is Jewish
. His mother is actress Diana Douglas , with English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Belgian, French and Dutch descent
. Michael Douglas' grandparents were Jewish immigrants in Russia
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At the age of 33, Michael Douglas was married to Diantilla Luke, the daughter of a diplomat, whose wife was 14 years younger than him. A year later, their son Cameron was born. After marriage, the wife has been quite dissatisfied because Douglas' film career interfered with their married life. In addition, she also believes that Douglas is unfaithful to her and is not a competent father. Marriage frustration caused Douglas to fall into confusion. He began to drink heavily and was eventually sent to a rehabilitation center due to alcoholism. In 2000, Michael Douglas and Diantilla officially divorced and left his son Cameron
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At the Deauville Film Festival in 1998, Douglas fell in love with her at first sight after watching "Zorro's Mask" starring Zeta Jones. Less than 10 minutes after meeting, he proposed to Zeta Jones that he would be the father of her future child, but Zeta Jones rejected him on the spot. In 2000, shortly after Douglas divorced his ex-wife, the two men, who were 25 years apart, entered the palace of marriage. Douglas and Zeta Jones moved to Bermuda, the mother's hometown of the former. After the birth of his and Catherine Zeta-Jones 's two children, Dylan and Kelly
, Douglas took the initiative to give up the opportunity to participate in the film and chose to stay at home to take care of the children.
In 2008, 31-year-old Cameron Douglas was sentenced to five years in prison for drug trafficking
. As the father, Michael Douglas wrote a letter of plea to the court
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In August 2010, he was diagnosed with advanced laryngeal cancer and received treatment immediately
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Character Evaluation
As the son of movie star Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas is no less inferior than his father. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" produced by him won an Oscar for Best Picture, and the classic villain Gordon Geco in "Wall Street" made him the Oscar winner. However, Douglas seems to have inherited the shortcomings of his parents' lack of family responsibility. The excessive focus on career and the bad habits of alcoholism made him not caring enough for his children when he was young
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