{"product_id":"michael-douglas-memoir","title":"Michael Douglas Memoir","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMichael Douglas\u003c\/b\u003e is a legendary actor with 50 celebrated years of film, television and producing experience. Over his career he has received two Academy Award, a BAFTA AWARD, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He has also received several honors such as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2009, two Honorary Cesars in 1998 and 2016, a Film Society at Lincoln Center Gala Tribute in 2010, a Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2004, and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2018. In addition to his career accomplishments, Douglas has remained a steadfast public servant, activist and philanthropist dedicated to peace and human welfare, democracy, gun control advocacy, support of the arts and support of nuclear disarmament. In 1998, former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Douglas as a Messenger of Peace for his commitment on disarmament issues, including nuclear non-proliferation and halting the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHollywood icon Michael Douglas tells the unfiltered story of his life for the first time. \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"This book is about where I came from, what I fought against, and what I chose for myself. Fame can blur the truth; this is my attempt to bring it back into focus.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A legendary actor and Hollywood Icon whose five-decade career spans film, television, and producing, Michael Douglas has won two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, five Golden Globes, a Primetime Emmy, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and the AFI Life Achievement Award, among many others. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Douglas starred in and produced some of the most successful movies of all time, including \n\u003ci\u003eOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eRomancing the Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe China Syndrome\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eFatal Attraction\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eBlack Rain, \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eWall Street\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eBasic Instinct, \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eDisclosure\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Game, Wonder Boys, Traffic, \u003c\/i\u003e and \n\u003ci\u003eBehind the Candelabra\u003c\/i\u003e. His films have defined cultural moments and sometimes whole decades. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this raw, career-sweeping memoir, he tells the unfiltered story of his life. Initially dismissed as only Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas' handsome son, Douglas stunned Hollywood and the world when he won his first Oscar at just thirty years old for producing the multi-Academy Award winning classic \n\u003ci\u003eOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest\u003c\/i\u003e. Once told he would be nothing more than a television actor, he walked off the hit series \n\u003ci\u003eThe Streets of San Francisco\u003c\/i\u003e to become a global movie star whose films have grossed billions of dollars. Rejected for serious acting roles that he saw go to his Hollywood pals Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty, he refused to be typecast and won his second Academy Award for his iconic performance as Gordon Gekko in \n\u003ci\u003eWall Street\u003c\/i\u003e. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Beginning with Douglas's childhood and complicated relationship with his father, the memoir traces his path to success with news-breaking behind-the-scenes stories of his rise to fame. Yet as Douglas's fame rose, so did his personal struggles, and here for the first time is the full, candid story of the challenges he and his family faced, from affairs with some of the most celebrated actresses in Hollywood, his own serious drug addiction which threaten to destroy his first marriage and career, the heartbreaking battle to save his son from a terrible drug addiction that sent him to federal prison at thirty-one years old, and an against-all-odds battle with stage four cancer. His love affair with Oscar winner Catherine Zeta Jones was initially dismissed as just another Hollywood relationship, but they proved the skeptics wrong about their age gap and stayed together through relationship troubles, health issues, tabloid gossip and are still going strong after twenty-five years of marriage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496027160854,"sku":"9781538782224","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9781538782224.jpg?v=1783050965","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/michael-douglas-memoir","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}