Kirk Douglas, Dead At 103

[ZiprHead]

https://people.com/movies/kirk-douglas-dead/

Kirk Douglas, one of the first box-office stars of the silver screen, has died. He was 103.

The Spartacus acting legend, who had been in good health since suffering a stroke in 1996, is survived by his wife of 65 years, Anne, and his sons Michael, Joel, and Peter.

“It is with tremendous sadness that my brothers and I announce that Kirk Douglas left us today at the age of 103,” Michael Douglas said in a statement to PEOPLE. “To the world, he was a legend, an actor from the golden age of movies who lived well into his golden years, a humanitarian whose commitment to justice and the causes he believed in set a standard for all of us to aspire to.”

Only Thanos had a better chin than him.

 

[DBT]

RIP, Kirk Douglas.

 

[Worldtraveller]

Today, we are all Spartacus.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Audacious honesty was a quality in all of his work -- right down to his two nude scenes, in The War Wagon (when he was 50) and Saturn 3 (age 62.)

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I don't think I've seen a movie with Kirk Douglas in it. I need to add something to the list for things to watch.

One nitpick... "Kirk Douglas, one of the first box-office stars of the silver screen...". Unless I'm mistaken regarding the silver screen age, aren't the like of Clark Gable and Spencer Tracey, among others, the first box-office stars of the silver screen? Douglas comes in the late 40s. He is an icon, no doubt, but "First"? Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant are established box-office stars before he plays in a single film. And this is ignoring Kate Hepburn and Bette Davis.

 

[Keith&Co.]

I don't think I've seen a movie with Kirk Douglas in it. I need to add something to the list for things to watch.

War Wagon is one of my favorite movies.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Paths of Glory:
'I apologize -- for not being entirely honest with you... for not telling you sooner that you're a degenerate, sadistic old man. And you can go to hell before I apologize to you now or ever again!'

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

I don't think I've seen a movie with Kirk Douglas in it. I need to add something to the list for things to watch.

Damn. Paths of Glory, with Stanley Kubrick directing, is quite a film. None of his obits mention Seven Days in May, about a planned military coup against the President of the United States; it's also good, but doesn't highlight Douglas as much. And there's always Spartacus.

 

[blastula]

A real icon, such great presence on screen. Paths of Glory is probably his best, but my personal fave is the soapy noir The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.

 

[jab]

my favorites Ace in the Hole/ a.k.a. The Big Carnival, and Paths of Glory.

 

[DBT]

I thought Spartacus was good when it came out, but that was a long time ago. Maybe I'll watch it again.

 

[steve_bank]

Douglas, Holden, Lancaster, Newman and otters all gone. They were the image of a strong masculine man in the 40s and 50s.

Now it is the sensitive man....strong masculinity is now called toxic masculinity.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Douglas, Holden, Lancaster, Newman and otters all gone. They were the image of a strong masculine man in the 40s and 50s.

Now it is the sensitive man....strong masculinity is now called toxic masculinity.

Care to back that up?

 

[Worldtraveller]

Douglas, Holden, Lancaster, Newman and otters all gone. They were the image of a strong masculine man in the 40s and 50s.

Now it is the sensitive man....strong masculinity is now called toxic masculinity.

Care to back that up?

Or better, fuck off to a more appropriate thread.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Douglas, Holden, Lancaster, Newman and otters all gone. They were the image of a strong masculine man in the 40s and 50s.

Now it is the sensitive man....strong masculinity is now called toxic masculinity.

Keanu Reeves says "check my body count".

 

[steve_bank]

Douglas, Holden, Lancaster, Newman and otters all gone. They were the image of a strong masculine man in the 40s and 50s.

Now it is the sensitive man....strong masculinity is now called toxic masculinity.

Care to back that up?

Please oh please don't be mean and bully me, I can not take it. Mods where are you?

The actors and accesses of the 30s-50s were chidden of the depression and WWII. They had maturing experiences generally that do not exist today. I believe Yule Brenner and Burt Lancaster came up in circus/carnival. Jimmy Stewart was a combat pilot. Lee Marvin nd others were in combat.

Current Hollywood are children of the brbs and middle class decadence, so to speak.

Acting to me today is weak and childish. What male actors today are comparable to the first generation actors?

How about Stallone? Watched a part of First Blood recently with a VN combat vet wounded multiple times. He all but spit on the TV. Nobody runs around wearing a bandanna without a shirt in combat.

Is that one of your male images? Or a cigar smoking Schwarzenegger in a South America jungle?

And one other thing, they had a vocabulary beyond the words shit and fuck. They had artistry with speech.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

So you’ve got nothing then?

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Douglas, Holden, Lancaster, Newman and otters all gone. They were the image of a strong masculine man in the 40s and 50s.

Now it is the sensitive man....strong masculinity is now called toxic masculinity.

Care to back that up?

Please oh please don't be mean and bully me, I can not take it. Mods where are you?

The actors and accesses of the 30s-50s were chidden of the depression and WWII. They had maturing experiences generally that do not exist today. I believe Yule Brenner and Burt Lancaster came up in circus/carnival. Jimmy Stewart was a combat pilot. Lee Marvin nd others were in combat.

Current Hollywood are children of the brbs and middle class decadence, so to speak.

Acting to me today is weak and childish. What male actors today are comparable to the first generation actors?

How about Stallone? Watched a part of First Blood recently with a VN combat vet wounded multiple times. He all but spit on the TV. Nobody runs around wearing a bandanna without a shirt in combat.

Is that one of your male images? Or a cigar smoking Schwarzenegger in a South America jungle?

And one other thing, they had a vocabulary beyond the words shit and fuck. They had artistry with speech.

Which ones wrote their own dialogue?

 

[ideologyhunter]

This is about the silliest, most tiresome derail ever. In the words of a laconic, old-style movie star in a tough guy role, 'We're burnin' daylight, boys. Let's saddle up and get 'em over the river.' To Kirk Douglas: life well-lived.