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Kirk Douglas Issues Editorial on His 90th Birthday
yahoo News ^ | December 9, 2006 | Kirk Douglas

Posted on 12/11/2006 5:04:05 AM PST by Mel Gibson

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- My name is Kirk Douglas. You may know me. If you don't ... Google me. I was a movie star and I'm Michael Douglas' dad, Catherine Zeta-Jones' father-in-law, and the grandparents of their two children. Today I celebrate my 90th birthday.

I have a message to convey to America's young people. A 90th birthday is special. In my case, this birthday is not only special but miraculous. I survived World War II, a helicopter crash, a stroke, and two new knees.

It's a tradition that when a "birthday boy" stands over his cake he makes a silent wish for his life and then blows out the candles. I have followed that tradition for 89 years but on my 90th birthday, I have decided to rebel. Instead of making a silent wish for myself, I want to make a LOUD wish for THE WORLD.

Let's face it: THE WORLD IS IN A MESS and you are inheriting it. Generation Y, you are on the cusp. You are the group facing many problems: abject poverty, global warming, genocide, AIDS, and suicide bombers to name a few. These problems exist, and the world is silent. We have done very little to solve these problems. Now, we leave it to you. You have to fix it because the situation is intolerable

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News
KEYWORDS: actor; ageing; kirkdouglas
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To: F.J. Mitchell

I never liked his acting... he was always over acting and laid it on a little thick. I never could get past his self-consciousness about what he was doing.


81 posted on 12/11/2006 10:06:34 AM PST by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: Williams
I never forget the girl singing that haunting song at the end (Kubrick married her).

My God - me too! That is one of the most moving scenes ever in film.

82 posted on 12/11/2006 10:10:54 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
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To: Rummyfan

83 posted on 12/11/2006 11:58:03 AM PST by monkapotamus
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To: All

84 posted on 12/11/2006 11:59:54 AM PST by monkapotamus
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To: IrishBrigade; Redleg Duke
...Kirk Douglas' best role was as Paul Eddington, "In Harm's Way'...

I liked that one, too. Another one of my Douglas favorites is an obscure sci-fi flick about an alternative-future "what-if?" Pearl Harbor attack scenario, entitled "The Final Countdown".

85 posted on 12/11/2006 12:19:38 PM PST by tarheelswamprat (So what if I'm not rich? So what if I'm not one of the beautiful people? At least I'm not smart...)
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To: Mel Gibson

Love your movies, Kirk...
But is it a perk
that Michael's a jerk?
He's got a quirk
for UN work
and in gun-controllers'
shadow he doth lurk
with a smirk, Kirk.


86 posted on 12/11/2006 12:26:34 PM PST by kiriath_jearim
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To: labette
ROLE!

Rolling On [the] Linoleum Expectorating?

(Expelling? Exploding? Expiring? ...)

87 posted on 12/11/2006 12:51:59 PM PST by nonsporting
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To: monkapotamus

Colonel Dax, with Oscar Goldman on the left!


88 posted on 12/11/2006 1:00:06 PM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
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To: zeugma

Douglas wasn't in HARVEY, the attendant was played by Jesse White.


89 posted on 12/11/2006 1:01:00 PM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
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To: nonsporting

Behold, the dangers of engaging the keyboard before the mind is warmed up. Plus I was conversing on the side. {another F-R no-no.}


90 posted on 12/11/2006 1:03:39 PM PST by labette (Give love to many and trust to few. Always paddle your own canoe.)
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To: Bommer

Unfortunately, the bar is so low that any actor who doesn't blame Bush for everything wrong in the world is considered a "conservative".


91 posted on 12/11/2006 1:07:01 PM PST by Democratshavenobrains
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To: Mel Gibson

Happy birthday to Mr. Douglas.


92 posted on 12/11/2006 4:12:20 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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To: Mel Gibson
These problems exist, and the world is silent. We have done very little to solve these problems. Now, we leave it to you. You have to fix it because the situation is intolerable.

Ahh...thanks, I guess. Maybe you could get involved instead of writing your swan song.
93 posted on 12/11/2006 4:19:46 PM PST by Vision ("As a man thinks...so is he." Proverbs 23:7)
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To: MinuteGal


Good job, Leni.
Thanks.


94 posted on 12/11/2006 4:24:05 PM PST by onyx (San Diego Chargers! La Danian Tomlinson and Phillip Rivers! WOO-HOO!)
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To: Bernard Marx; what's up
I think it was fairly well known at the time. Hedda Hopper and John Wayne told people not to see Spartacus. The Communist admiration of Spartacus comes from Karl Marx who regarded the historical figure as one of his heroes. The initial crack in the Blacklist came not from Douglas but from Alfred Hitchcock who hired the blacklisted actor Norman Lloyd to work on his TV show in 1957. Lloyd is still alive at 95.
95 posted on 04/20/2010 5:39:15 PM PDT by Borges
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