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Daily Mirror
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Hollywood legend Michael Douglas reveals worrying reason he hasn't worked for 3 years
Fatal Attraction and Ant-Man actor Michael Douglas has shared his fear of ending up as 'one of those people who dropped dead on set' after marking a milestone birthday His Hollywood legend father Kirk Douglas carried on working into his nineties, but Michael Douglas says he's happy to 'play the wife' and step away from his acting career at a comparatively youthful 80. Speaking to Best Magazine, Michael explains that he hasn't actually worked for a few years, and while he hasn't definitively retired, it would take a very special script to lure him back into the studio: 'I say I'm not retired, because if something special came up, I'd go back.' For now, though, he says he's happy to watch his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, 55, go out to work, while he enjoys his remaining years in peace: 'I did not want to be one of those people who dropped dead on set,' he joked. Welsh-born Catherine, some 25 years younger than her husband, is still keeping herself very busy, with a variety of film and TV projects on the boil, including Netflix 's hit series Wednesday. As he winds down from his acting career, though, Michael has reason to be grateful for his old age. In 2010, he was diagnosed with cancer of the tongue. The reality behind the diagnosis wasn't made public at the time, with his doctor advising that it would be better to describe his condition as throat cancer, because of the possible negative publicity that might arise from him having such a disfiguring and potentially deadly condition. He later explained on This Morning that he felt he had to make some sort of announcement, because his treatment meant he had to pull out of a publicity tour for the movie Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. He recalled: 'The surgeon said let's just say it's throat cancer. I said 'OK, you don't want to say it's tongue cancer?', I said 'Why's that?' and he said 'Well, if you really want to know why, if we do have to have surgery it's not going to be pretty. You'll lose part of you jaw and your tongue and all of that stuff.' So I said, 'OK sure.'" Aggressive chemotherapy sent the cancer into remission, but Michael admits that he went through a very tough time: 'Stage four cancer is not a holiday. You know? It's not a holiday. But there aren't many choices, are there? 'I went with the program involving chemo and radiation, and was fortunate. I had a couple of friends during that same time who were not so lucky.' He mentions Dallas star Larry Hagman, and songwriter Nickolas Ashford – who had a huge hit with 'Solid' in 1984 – as being diagnosed with the same condition at roughly the same time. Sadly, neither of them survived. Michael says that his cancer had probably been brought about by a combination of stress, alcohol abuse, and years of heavy smoking – although, at the time, an offhand remark during an interview with the Guardian led to stories that the main trigger for his cancer had been an infection of the HPV virus, caused by performing oral sex.


The Star
23-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Star
Michael Douglas slams Trump for creating 'drama,' 'chaos' in the world
Donald Trump (left) acted with Michael Douglas in the film, 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps'. Trump played himself in a cameo role, which was later deleted. Photos: Reuters, TNS Michael Douglas is the latest Hollywood celebrity to denounce Donald Trump for deploying the National Guard and Marines to enforce immigration raids in Los Angeles, with the Oscar-winning actor saying the president has 'created such drama' and is responsible for stoking conflict throughout the world. Speaking on stage at the opening for the 71st Taormina Film Festival in Italy, the 80-year-old Wall Street icon actually apologised for US domestic and international policies under Trump, saying he had never in his life seen so much conflict in the world, according to Vanity Fair. 'I was born at the end of World War II, but in my lifetime, this is the worst time that I can ever remember,' Douglas told the assembled Italian media, Vanity Fair reported. The Basic Instinct actor added: 'I realise that my country bears a lot of the responsibility for the chaos that exists in the world. I apologise … to my friends, be it my neighbours in Canada or Mexico, or all the countries in the EU and NATO. I'm embarrassed and I apologise.' Douglas and Trump happen to be contemporaries in American life and celebrity. Like Douglas, Trump was born after World War II and both men followed their powerful, successful fathers into their respective family businesses. Douglas and Trump also notably crossed paths in 2010 when the president was a famously brash New York City real estate developer and reality TV star. That year, Trump also acted with Douglas in the film, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps . Trump played himself in a cameo role, which was later deleted. This film was a sequel to the classic 1987 film Wall Street and also starred Douglas as Gordon Gekko, a fictional New York City corporate raider arrested for insider trading. Douglas' Gekko became a pop culture symbol of unrestrained greed in the 1980s, with his signature line, 'Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.' Commenters have said that Gordon Gekko and Wall Street were a perfect statement about Trump's idea of America, and the decade that buoyed his rise to power on the national stage. After Douglas won an Academy Award for playing Gordon Gekko, he got to embody a much more noble character — an idealistic, effective and popular US president — in the 1995 film The American President . During Douglas' interactions with the Italian media, he actually didn't use Trump's name much, according to Vanity Fair. He even said he was wary of giving Trump too much attention, but he still returned to critiquing his administration's policies and actions. When asked his biggest disappointment, Douglas said: 'This last election in our country.' Douglas also said that immigration 'is a problem in every country,' Vanity Fair reported. But Douglas said Trump has 'created such drama, that all these immigrants were murderers and rapists. This is before he got elected.' Now that Trump is president again, Douglas denounced the way he's been able to bypass Congress in an attempt to enact draconian immigration enforcement, according to Vanity Fair. 'And my question to our government is, when or how do we stop this executive power?' Douglas, a longtime California resident, also excoriated Trump for trying to punish California, because it is controlled by Democrats. 'The state of California is the fourth-largest GDP in the world,' Douglas said. 'You have the United States, China, India — then the state of California. Bigger than Japan.' Addressing ICE crackdowns in California, Douglas explained how San Joaquin Valley farms are a major contributor to the nation's food supply. This agricultural industry also relies on the labor of seasonal workers who have come from Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries and often stay on in the United States. 'There's no possible reason that you should call out the National Guard' to deport these people, Douglas said. 'To go into these middle-class neighborhoods — these are people who all have had jobs, been living in the country for 30 years or whatever. A very heavy-handed approach which isn't resolving anything.' – The Mercury News/Tribune News Service


Perth Now
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Ferris Bueller's Day Off in talks to reunite in remake of French comedy
'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' co-stars Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck are in talks to reunite in the comedy 'The Best Is Yet to Come'. The flick has a script by Allan Loeb; the screenwriter and producer known for films such as 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps', 'The Switch', and 'Things We Lost in the Fire'. 'Cool Runnings' helmer Jon Turteltaub is on board to direct. Per Deadline, the actors will "play best friends who, through a colossal misunderstanding that creates a ticking clock, hop in a car to find the estranged son of one of them and also try to do all the things that life has prevented them from doing." The film is a remake of the 2019 French comedy-drama of the same name directed by Alexandre de La Patelliere and Matthieu Delaporte. Lionsgate is in talks to distribute the movie. Although the finer details are still to be finalised, the outlet claims production could begin as soon as the summer. Broderick and Ruck played the titular role and Cameron Frye, respectively, in John Hughes' 1986 teen comedy 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', which follows Ferris Bueller, a charismatic high school senior who fakes an illness to skip school and embark on an adventurous day in Chicago with his best friend, Cameron, and his girlfriend, Sloane, including accidentally crashing his father's beloved 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder through a glass window, a major turning point in his character's arc.


The Independent
28-01-2025
- Business
- The Independent
Male actors occupy 75% of screen time in finance-related films and shows
Around three quarters of screen time in finance-related films and TV shows is typically occupied by male actors, a study indicates. A range of films and series about finance and investing from the past 15 years were analysed, such as The Wolf of Wall Street, The Big Short, Margin Call and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. The research, commissioned by trading and investing platform eToro, consisted of visual and text analysis, focusing on the main male and female characters depicted as financial experts. We all know that women earn less, invest less, yet live longer than men and therefore have an even greater need to build wealth to secure their futures Dr Ylva Baeckstrom, research lead Among the films and shows analysed, researchers found that, on average across all the productions analysed, 75% of screen time was occupied by male financial experts, who made up 64% of the experts portrayed. The research indicated that male experts often tended to portrayed as more knowledgeable, confident and significantly more comfortable with risk than female experts. Female characters often conveyed their authority or confidence by 'power dressing' in suits and heels, researchers noted. While men dominated the 'alpha' roles as experts, women were seen playing 'supportive' characters such as wives or admin assistants, or were portraying strippers or mistresses. Dr Ylva Baeckstrom, a senior lecturer in finance at King's Business School, who led the research, suggested that portrayals of finance and investing as a pursuit for 'alpha males' and a lack of female financial role models are both 'perpetuating the gender investment gap'. She said: 'We all know that women earn less, invest less, yet live longer than men and therefore have an even greater need to build wealth to secure their futures.' Dr Baeckstrom also said some improvement had been observed for productions in recent years, with films such as Fair Play, starring Phoebe Dynevor, and episodes of the TV show Billions, 'introducing stronger women in roles that highlight their capabilities, struggles and complexity'. Lale Akoner, global markets analyst at eToro said: 'There is a need for female role models both on and off-screen to encourage us all to talk more about money and to inspire the next generation of female investors.' eToro has partnered with research business Boring Money to launch a campaign called Loud Investing to encourage discussions about finance.