Michael Douglas, an actor and producer who has won many awards, turned 82 not long ago. He has beat cancer, gotten clean from drugs, is married, and has an actor son and father. He also writes books. At the start of his autobiography, he thanks his family, past, present, and future, for giving him a “sense of immortality.”
He recently spoke at a Manhattan hotel about his late father, Kirk Douglas, who was an actor and sometimes fought. “Many times my father was asked, ‘Kirk, are you jealous of your son?'” And he asked, ‘Are you jealous?’ This is an idea of living forever, of passing on from generation to generation.
To Douglas, family is what holds his heritage and his place in a world he thinks is falling apart together. Being in cultural touchstones like “Fatal Attraction” or “Basic Instinct” is one way to live on past your own time. Another is to write a 500-page book called “One Helluva Ride,” which is about a famous man’s journey from rebellion and coming of age to midlife success and transgression to his inevitable reckoning with death and past mistakes.
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