and that you deserve this for voting for Trump, you deplorable son-of-a-bitch!"
Posted on 02/06/2020 2:25:11 AM PST by Bender2
and that you deserve this for voting for Trump, you deplorable son-of-a-bitch!"
Thank you for sharing that story and continue your craft as long as you can.
Kirk Douglas didn’t have too many opportunities for comedy but The Villian was hilarious IMO.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0080097/
“The Final Countdown” was an intriguing story. Great cast.
I had an uncle who looked slightly like him. We would tease him and ask for his autograph. He’d laugh and insist we stop messing with him, but you could see—it tickled him pink!
He died in his 90s in the 1990s. I visited him at the hospice, and said, “Uncle Marty, wow, I thought you were Kirk Douglas for a minute, there!”
He perked right up. Got to talking about old times.
He died the next day.
Uncle Marty, say “Hello” to Kirk up there for us!
Since “Wall Street” turned out to be such a great role for Michael Douglas, it would have been interesting if there had been a role for Kirk Douglas as Gordon Gekko’s father or mentor mirroring the Charlie and Martin Sheen characters.
Thank you for the interesting personal anecdote.
Funny story, my Dad liked the girl that played the Indian girl in the 1955 The Indian Fighter we had seen years before and it became a running joke between my parents. Mom would occasionally say she sure wished she could cook as well as my Father's Dream Indian. Dad would come back,"That would be nice, wouldn't it?"
So in the early 1960s me, Mom and Dad were at a drive in watching Hatari! which had Elsa Martinelli as the Duke's love interest, spicy Italian hottie Anna Maria 'Dallas' D'Allesandro.
About half way through the film when the natives darkened Dallas' skin in a Mama Elephant ceremony, my Mom said to my Dad that Elsa Martinelli had played the Indian girl my father liked so much in The Indian Fighter
After a second, my father said, "I'll be damned, it is her! Never thought she'd have been an Eye-tie--"
That one is not my favorite, but it is very good. I love the scene where he slaps Patrick O'Neal in the face.
One thing I like about a lot of Kirk's performances is that he can play roguish characters and even downright assholes with a great deal of charm. One of my favorite such roles of his is movie producer Jonathan Shields in The Bad and the Beautiful.
Interesting, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for that ;-). To be honest, I was about 9 years old. I sure did love the oar walking scene, among others. But then, I watched gladiator movies on Saturday afternoons and all the other great stuff before “toxic masculinity?!?” was frowned upon by the ‘wimmen’
Remember “The war wagon” with John Wayne?
That movie was a hoot.
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