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Kirk Douglas: Biography, Latest News & Videos

  • Birth Name: Issur Danielovitch
  • Birth Place: Amsterdam, NY
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 12/09/1916, Sagittarius
  • Profession: Actor; producer; author
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VIDEO: Saturday Night Live: Kirk Douglas and Sam and Dave

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Saturday Night Live: Kirk Douglas and Sam and Dave
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Length: 01:07:31
Aired: 2/23/1980

Kirk Douglas hosts with musical guest Sam & Dave ("You Don't Know Like I Know"). Includes Nick at Greg's Bar Mitzvah and Schiller's Reel: Mask of Fear. watch

Roush Review: A Long Night at the Oscars

So how did everyone like 127 Hours: The Oscar Show?

Past experience has lowered our Oscar night expectations, but the enormity of this year's train wreck was hammered home when the starry audience stood and cheered as Billy Crystal took the stage midway through — as if to say: "Come back, Billy! Do something! Please save this show!"

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The 8-time former host teased, "We're running a little long, so here are the nominees for best picture." Bad boy. Funny boy. Boy oh boy, could the show have used a little more of Crystal's comic polish...read more

Oscars 2011 Top Moments: James Franco in a Dress, Taylor Lautner Without a Shirt

Anne Hathaway and James Franco's first foray into hosting the Oscars was a little rocky, but there were still plenty of top moments to be had from the ceremony:

Most Awkward Host Introduction:  Ouch. Anne Hathaway and James Franco's requisite montage of fake clips from the Best-Picture nominees fell flat, but at least we got a small giggle from seeing Franco in a white, full-body leotard for their Black Swan spoof. Can we get him and Justin Timberlake doing "Single Ladies"?

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Kirk Douglas: Videos

Pop Culture Rewind Spartacus
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Home Movies
The Champion

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Trumbo
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Greedy
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Lonely Are the Brave
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Summertree

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Saturday Night Live: Kirk Douglas and Sam and Dave

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2009 AFI Life Achievement Award TV Show Series, Appearing
2008 Trumbo Movie, Actor
2008 AFI's 10 Top 10 TV Show Series, Appearing
2007 AFI Life Achievement Award TV Show Series, Remarks by
2006 AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers TV Show Series, Appearing

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Michael Douglas: Cancer Brought Me Closer to My Father

Michael Douglas says his cancer diagnosis helped mend his strained relationship with his father, Kirk Douglas.

Michael Douglas on throat cancer: "The expectations are good"

"He really made an effort. He was ... read more

Cameron Douglas Sentenced to Five Years in Prison

Michael Douglas' son was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday on drug charges, according to The Associated Press.

U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman announced Cameron Douglas' sentence after the 31-year-old apologized with his father in attendance. Douglas pleaded guilty to... read more

Cameron Douglas Pleads Guilty to Drug Dealing

Cameron Douglas pleaded guilty Wednesday to dealing large quantities of methamphetamine and cocaine, The Associated Press reports.

The 31-year-old son of Michael Douglas also pleaded guilty to... read more

Longtime Film Star Jean Simmons Dead at 80

Jean Simmons, whose film career spanned from 1944 to 2008, died Friday after battling lung cancer, the Los Angeles Times reported. She was 80.

Originally from London, Simmons shared the screen with many of Hollywood's leading men, including... read more

My wife and I were having ...

Question: My wife and I were having dinner recently at an Italian restaurant and the background music was Dean Martin singing songs from Guys and Dolls. We agreed that Martin would have been much better than Marlon Brando in the movie — was Martin too new on the Hollywood scene to be considered, or was the studio pushing  Brando?


Answer: Producer Sam Goldman wanted Gene Kelly to play Sky Masterson in the movie version of the Broadway hit Guys and Dolls (1955), but Kelly couldn't get released from his MGM contract. (Though MGM stands for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Sam Goldwyn was only part of the studio, which was formed by merging three existing companies, for a couple of years; in 1923, he formed his own Samuel Goldwyn Productions. MGM kept the read more

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