OT: RIP Kirk Douglas

fiamme red · #1 02-05-2020, 05:58 PM

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...artacus-670526

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/m...glas-dead.html

SpaceOdyssey · #2 02-05-2020, 06:23 PM

Long and varied career.

Amazingly long life

rnhood · #3 02-05-2020, 06:55 PM

Farewell Kirk. He was one of my all time favorite actors. Lived a good long life and made many contributions to the entertainment world.

jghall · #4 02-05-2020, 07:37 PM

Sorry to hear. Didn't realize he was 103.

Chris · #5 02-05-2020, 10:01 PM

What a great career. He’ll be missed.

rides2slow · #6 02-06-2020, 12:13 AM

Spartacus.....
One of my favorite movies when I was
a kid.

bironi · #7 02-06-2020, 01:30 AM

No!!!!!!
I am Spartacus!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mcteague · #8 02-06-2020, 07:52 AM

For a great KD performance, check out "Paths of Glory". Its an early Stanley Kubrick film about the folly of war.

Tim

Elefantino · #9 02-06-2020, 08:06 AM

When I was a kid in Peru, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" played at the local movie house and I was so excited because it was in English with Spanish subtitles.

I loved the Ned Land character and loved Kirk Douglas.

RIP.

cmg · #10 02-06-2020, 08:46 AM

yep, Spartacus is great film. i thought of "Paths of Glory" when i was watching this years "1917". How brutal armed conflict can be. Great actor.

redir · #11 02-06-2020, 09:15 AM

103 is a heck of a good run. I hope his last years were good ones. I read this in one of his biographies, "Douglas first wanted to be an actor after he recited the poem The Red Robin of Spring while in kindergarten and received applause."

How cool is that?

robt57 · #12 02-06-2020, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by bironi

No!!!!!!
I am Spartacus!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Turns out he really was, or better it seems.

The Google says Spartacus was 40 when he died...

[Credit goes to another forum/user, retweet on my part]

fiamme red · #13 02-07-2020, 10:14 AM

Here he seems to be enjoying himself riding a bike on the boardwalk in Deauville: https://ridesabike.com/kirk-douglas-rides-a-bike/.

This interview with Dick Cavett is very interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4OWVHVLwEc. At 15:31: "I do exercise every day... I always do about 5 to 10 minutes of exercise... I think that's all you need." And he lived to 103!

cgolvin · #14 02-07-2020, 10:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cmg

yep, Spartacus is great film. i thought of "Paths of Glory" when i was watching this years "1917". How brutal armed conflict can be. Great actor.

<drift> Another excellent film on this theme is "Breaker Morant", about the Boer Wars. </drift>

RIP Issur Danielovitch Demsky

fiamme red · #15 02-07-2020, 10:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cmg

i thought of "Paths of Glory" when i was watching this years "1917". How brutal armed conflict can be. Great actor.

Roger Ebert wrote an eloquent review of the film:

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/g...-of-glory-1957

Quote:

"Paths of Glory" was the film by which Stanley Kubrick entered the ranks of great directors, never to leave them. When I interviewed Kirk Douglas in 1969, he recalled it as the summit of his acting career: "There's a picture that will always be good, years from now. I don't have to wait 50 years to know that; I know it now." It has an economy of expression that is almost brutal; it is one of the few narrative films in which you sense the anger in the telling. Samuel Fuller, who fought all the way through World War II, remembered it in "The Big Red One" with nostalgia for the camaraderie of his outfit. There is no nostalgia in "Paths of Glory." Only nightmare.