A boy lost in the shadow of his father's legacy. A gifted artist dismissed as just a tv actor. A first-time film producer who stunned the world by winning an oscar at 31. A maverick who changed hollywood and became a global movie star. Hollywood icon michael douglas tells the unfiltered story of his life for the first time. I spent a significant portion of my career playing some version of the modern, flawed, american male.You'll see from these pages that it wasn't exactly a stretch for me. Beginning with his fractured, bi-coastal childhood and a complex relationship with his superstar father, kirk douglas, michael douglas finally gives the full and uncensored account of a remarkable life that has spanned an extraordinary eight decades.One helluva ride reveals incredible behind-the-scenes stories featuring a who's who of hollywood, many of them never revealed before and some outrageously funny, with an unflinching honesty about his sometimes bad-boy life. Initially dismissed as just the handsome son of a legendary movie star, at age thirty-one he shook up hollywood and stunned the world when he won his first oscar for producing the five-time academy award-winning classic film one flew over the cuckoo's nest.When they told him he would never be anything more than a tv actor, he quit the hit series the streets of san francisco to become an international movie star, with a list of classic films that have grossed billions of dollars, winning a second oscar for his riveting pe...
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