Posted on 06/06/2013 6:56:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Kirk Douglas looks around America these days and he sees too many guns.
The 96-year-old actor, best known for performances in classic films like Spartacus, Paths of Glory and Lust for Life, took to the cyber pages of The Huffington Post to call for more gun control--and far less guns.
I often played the good cowboy on screen, riding in to save the day. Now, everybody thinks he is a cowboy too. That frightens me. We have become a cowboy country with too many guns....
I cannot understand the people who are against some form of gun control. They should be the first to welcome a message on making it more difficult to get a gun. Many of them seem to propose more guns being available to everybody. Why? Are they interested in making more money for the gun manufacturers? Are they politicians who just want to oppose the president in anything he endorses? It's incomprehensible to me.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
America has to many guns..... Not enough adult diapers.
A mind is a terrible thing to lose.
“Kirk Douglas” is not even the dude’s name - he’s been faking it all his life.
A legend would never have appeared in "Saturn 3."
Kirk Douglas has been wrong about nearly everything for many years now, and many of the American people no longer even know who he is.
Eastwood did survive a ditching at sea when he was US Army...very well could have died in uniform..
He changed his name because Jews were/are persecuted.
Most stars changed their names to more glamorous ‘Americanized’ names.
A small sampling:
Joey Adams ............................. Joseph Abramowitz
Eddie Albert ............................Eddie Heimberger
Woody Allen............................. Allen Konigsberg
Lauren Bacall .......................... Joan Perske
Jack Benny ............................. Benny Kubelsky
Milton Berle ........................... Milton Berlinger
Ernest Borgnine .........................Effron Borgnine
George Burns ........................... Nathan Birnbaum
Joan Blondell........................... Rosebud Blustein
Joyce Brothers ..........................Joyce Bauer
Mel Brooks ............................. Melvin Kaminsky
Joey Bishop ............................ Joey Gottlieb
Charles Bronson ........................ Charles Buchinsky
Rona Barrett ............................Rona Burnstein
Cyd Chrisse .............................Tula Finklea
Tony Curtis ............................ Bernie Schwartz
Joan Crawford .......................... Lucille Le Sueur
Dyan Cannon ............................ Samile Friesen
Kirk Douglas ........................... Isadore Demsky
Bob Dylan ...............................Robert Zimmerman
Rodney Dangerfield ......................Jacob Cohen
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. ................. Douglas Ullman
Joel Grey .............................. Joel Katz
Elliott Gould ...........................Elliott Goldstein
Zsa Zsa Gabor ...........................Sara Gabor
John Garfield .......................... Jules Garfinkle
Judy Garland ........................... Frances Gumm
Paulette Goddard ....................... Paulette Levy
Eydie Gorme............................. Edith Gormezano
Cary Grant ............................. Larry Leach
Lorne Green .............................Chaim Leibowiz
Judy Holliday .......................... Judith Tuvin
Leslie Howard .......................... Leslie Stainer
Buddy Hackett .......................... Leonard Hacker
Jill St. John .......................... Jill Oppenheim
Danny Kaye.............................. David Kominsky
Alan King .............................. Irwin Kniberg
Larry King...............................Larry Zeiger
Tina Louise............................. Tina Blacker
Ann Landers..............................Esther Friedman
Dorothy Lamour ......................... Dorothy Kaumeyer
Miehael Landon ......................... Mike Orowitz
Steve Lawrence ......................... Sidney Leibowitz
Jerry Lewis ............................ Joseph Levitch
Karl Maiden .............................Maiden Sekulovitch
Ethel Merman ........................... Ethel Zimmerman
Jan Murray ............................. Murray Janofsky
Walter Matthau ......................... Walter Matasschanskayasky
Lilly Palmer ........................... Maria Peiser
Jan Pierce.............................. Pincus Perelmuth
Roberta Peters...........................Roberta Peterman
Eleanor Parker.......................... Ellen Friedlob
Joan Rlvers .............................Joan Molinsky
Tony Randall ........................... Sidney Rosenberg
Edward G. Robinson ..................... Emanuel Goldenberg
Dinah Shore ............................ Fanny Rose
Shelly Winters ......................... Shirley Schrift
Gene Wilder............................. Jerome Silberman
False.
Issur Danielovitch was his birth name.
“Eastwood never fought and was wounded defending America’s freedom as Douglas did. Eastwood was a star in his time. Douglas is a legend.”
Kirk is a legend in his own, and your, mind. Eastwood is eternal; 100 years from now, people will still watch “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” but will ask “who the hell was that Kirk guy?”
If we’re talking about purely great films, ‘Paths of Glory’ and ‘Out of the Past’ are all time American masterpieces. As much as I love the Sergio Leone film you mentioned, I don’t know if Eastwood has been anything as good as those two.
“has been in anything as good...”
And yes, many of our legends have appeared in low rated movies at one time or another. Douglas was fortunate to not have made many of these.
Even John Wayne really put his foot in it by making "The Conqueror" .
Just what was he thinking when he signed on to play Genghis Khan?
That film may very well have killed Wayne.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conqueror_(film)#Cancer_controversy
In those days you were under contract to the studio. If they said you were going to play the third talking tree in the Magic Forest then that is what you did. You could refuse but that Studio system was an Old Boys Club and the phrase "you'll never work in this town again" was not an idle threat.
Don't blame him one damn bit!
holy crap he is still alive? He must be over 100.
Not false.
Douglas was born Issur Danielovitch in Amsterdam, New York, the son of Bryna “Bertha” (née Sanglel) and Herschel “Harry” Danielovitch, a businessman.[3] His parents were Jewish immigrants from Gomel (now in Belarus but then in Russia),[4][5] and the family spoke Yiddish.[6][7] His father’s brother, who emigrated earlier, used the surname Demsky, which Douglas’ family adopted in the United States.[2] In addition to their surname, his parents also changed their given names to Harry and Bertha.
His 1988 biography paints a memorable picture of his family in the early years in America. After noting that his father was denied work in the carpet mills, the town’s largest employers, because he was Jewish, Douglas writes:
So my father, who had been a horse trader in Russia, got himself a horse and a small wagon, and became a ragman, buying old rags, pieces of metal, and junk for pennies, nickels, and dimes. . . . Even on Eagle Street, in the poorest section of town, where all the families were struggling, the ragman was on the lowest rung on the ladder. And I was the ragman’s son.
Douglas grew up as Izzy Demsky and legally changed his name to Kirk Douglas before entering the Navy during World War II.[8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Douglas
He’ll turn 97 later this year. But this guy is almost 100!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Lloyd
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