Michael Douglas

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Crown Archetype
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: First Edition

Description: 340 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A groundbreaking portrait of one of Hollywoods most successful stars, from critically acclaimed and bestselling biographer Marc Eliot Through determination, inventiveness, and charisma, Michael Douglas emerged from the long shadow cast by his movie-legend father, Kirk Douglas, to become his own man and one of the film industrys most formi­dable players. Overcoming the curse of failure that haunts the sons and daughters of Hollywood celebrities, Michael became a sensation when he successfully brought One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, starring his friend Jack Nicholson, to the screen after numerous setbacks, including his fathers own failed attempts to make it happen. This 1975 box-office phenomenon won Michael his first Oscar (the film won five total, including Best Picture), an award Kirk hadnt won at the time, and solidified the turbulent, competitive father-son relationship that would shape Michaels career and personal life. In the decades that followed, Michael established a reputation for taking chances on new talent and proj­ects by producing and starring in the hugely successful Romancing the Stone and Jewel of the Nile movies, while cultivating a multifaceted acting persona—edgy, rebel­lious, and a little dark—in such films as Wall Street, Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, and Disclosure. Yet as his career thrived, Michaels personal life floundered, with an unhappy and tumultuous first mar­riage, rumors of infidelity (especially with leading ladies such as Kathleen Turner), and a headline-grabbing stint in rehab. Rocked by a series of tragedies, including Kirks strokes, his son Camerons incarceration, and his own fight against throat cancer, Michael has emerged trium­phant, healthy, and happy in his marriage to Catherine Zeta-Jones, a Welsh actress twenty-five years his junior, and their new young family.In Michael Douglas, Marc Eliot brings into sharp fo­cus this incredible career, complicated personal life, and legendary Hollywood family. Eliots fascinating portrait of the lows and remarkable highs in Michaels life—in­cluding the thorny yet influential relationship with his father—breaks boundaries in understanding the life and work of a true American film star.

ISBN: 9780307952363