Oscar-winner Michael Douglas can have a memoir out this fall, a “raw, sweeping” account he says will illuminate his storied private {and professional} lives.
“After being asked for many years, I’ve finally decided it’s time to tell my story on my own terms,” Douglas stated in a press release launched by means of Grand Central Publishing, which has set an Oct 6 launch date.
“Not the highlight reel, not the version shaped by headlines or box office numbers, but the real one. I’ve lived a life that unfolded in public while being deeply private at the same time, and there’s a difference. This 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.”
Douglas’ ebook, written in collaboration with Michael Fleming, is presently untitled. Financial phrases weren’t disclosed; Douglas was represented by Shane Salerno of the Story Factory.
The 81-year-old actor has been on display screen, and within the news, for many years. The son of Hollywood large Kirk Douglas, he broke by means of within the Nineteen Seventies within the hit TV collection “The Streets of San Francisco” and went on to star in such cultural touchstones as “Fatal Attraction,” “Wall Street” and “Basic Instinct.” He additionally produced the Oscar-winning “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” a challenge that Douglas’ father had longed to tackle himself.
Douglas has survived most cancers and substance abuse and in any other case fought to set himself aside from his father. His marriage in November 2000 to fellow actor Catherine Zeta-Jones, greater than 20 years his junior, was initially met with doubts that their union would final.
“For the first time, Douglas is ready to tell the unfiltered story of his life in a raw, career-sweeping memoir that traces his journey from his father, Kirk Douglas’ shadow to his own stardom,” Grand Central’s announcement reads partially.
Along with baring his demons and disappointments, Douglas “shares his triumphs: his victorious fight against stage-four cancer and his enduring 25-year marriage to Catherine Zeta-Jones, which has proved skeptics wrong and become one of Hollywood’s most enduring love stories,” Grand Central introduced.
Beyond his Academy Awards for performing in “Wall Street” and producing “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” Douglas has received 5 Golden Globes, a Primetime Emmy and an AFI Lifetime Achievement Award. Douglas can be a longtime philanthropist and activist who in 1998 was appointed a Messenger of Peace by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
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