Lonely Are the Brave is Douglas' favorite
― the higgs bosun (gabbneb), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I didn't notice the [POLL closes: January 10] when I first saw this thread and my first thought was "oh noes, it's the RIP thread".
― WmC, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link
otm about Lonely Are The Brave.
A surprisingly poignant Van Gogh, but in the end I was stuck between Champion and Out of the Past; went with the latter, because only Setsuko Hara has wrung so much nuance from a smile.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
haven't seen Champion and Detective Story in ages. Remember the latter: "I'd give my soul to take out my brain, hold it under the faucet and wash away the dirty pictures you put there tonight!"
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 9 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
bump again
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 9 January 2009 14:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 10 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh I didn't see this thread. I would have voted Out of the Past.
― Alex in SF, Saturday, 10 January 2009 00:05 (fifteen years ago) link
That's what I voted for. I like the way he is the taciturn tough guy and let's his sidekick do most of the jawing.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 January 2009 03:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Like this bit of dialogue
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 January 2009 04:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Guys. Guys.
The circus is OVER.
― Nhex, Saturday, 10 January 2009 06:40 (fifteen years ago) link
'the bad and the beautiful' was terrific
― even blue cows get the girls (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 September 2011 12:26 (twelve years ago) link
I still haven't seen Lonely Are the Brave
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/kirk-douglas-10-best-big-screen-roles-330271
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 June 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
Must admit I thought this was an RIP revive.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Thursday, 7 June 2012 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, 1 hr 33 interview, will have to make some time for this.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Thursday, 7 June 2012 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
97 today. Dalton Trumbo wd've been 109.
http://moviemorlocks.com/2013/12/09/happy-birthday-dalton-trumbo-and-kirk-douglas-revisiting-the-blacklist/
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 December 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link
Lonely Are the Brave shows in Brooklyn tonight, 35mm
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 21:33 (nine years ago) link
Well, the first 45 minutes are pretty good. This is not one of KD's 10-12 best.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 March 2015 04:16 (nine years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/Inuxx/vlcsnap-error869_zpshgcnvlme.png
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 22 November 2015 07:27 (eight years ago) link
99 on Dec 9
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 November 2015 09:45 (eight years ago) link
i love 20k leagues but i would have voted out of the past (the above is from a midnight rewatch). my favorite noir villain i think. always smiling, except for submomentary expressions of impatience or hate. his smallness also used well:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/Inuxx/vlcsnap-error893_zpsuiyxiohu.png
very funny when mitchum points out that rather than blackmailing him douglas' accountant could just turn him in for a government reward-- douglas w genuine delight: "ah, you're up on these things!"
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Monday, 23 November 2015 05:40 (eight years ago) link
100 today!
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 December 2016 05:52 (seven years ago) link
Yowza! HB Kirk.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 9 December 2016 05:56 (seven years ago) link
Yep. Not dreaded yet.
― Mark G, Friday, 9 December 2016 07:58 (seven years ago) link
Damn spelling correktor!
Deaded.
Oh nm...
― Mark G, Friday, 9 December 2016 07:59 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2UyqUfe5SY
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 December 2016 12:18 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkjTGCrLvAU
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 December 2016 15:22 (seven years ago) link
links for the day
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/kirk-douglas-100
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 December 2016 16:07 (seven years ago) link
My favorite of his is "The Murder of Jean Spangler"...check it out!
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 9 December 2016 17:59 (seven years ago) link
Kirk Douglii:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izy2ittIe7A&index=1&list=FLARC9wh7vnw7f319pVLJj7A
― glumdalclitch, Saturday, 10 December 2016 09:49 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izy2ittIe7A
― glumdalclitch, Saturday, 10 December 2016 09:51 (seven years ago) link
Richard M. Nixon @dick_nixon 19 Nov 2015
I forget that Kirk Douglas is still alive. You know what he did to Natalie Wood?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 December 2016 12:27 (seven years ago) link
i was counting on Frederik B for that
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 December 2016 14:29 (seven years ago) link
in a belated Kirkfest, i will soon be rewatching Champion and The Bad and the Beautiful, and Young Man w/ a Horn for the first time
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:39 (seven years ago) link
kirk douglas, celebrating his 102nd birthday, attributes his longevity to his continued faith in the islamic state of iraq and the levant— DougExeter (@DougExeter) December 9, 2018
― flappy bird, Sunday, 9 December 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link
103! the simulation is kirk's dream i think.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 9 December 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
was telling one of my students about him the other day, in the process of telling them to see paths of glory. 'made in 1957, guess when the lead actor died!'
― imago, Monday, 9 December 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
the most amazing part of the kirk douglas longevity saga is that his wife is also still alive, at 100
― imago, Monday, 9 December 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
Had to take a screenshot of this.
http://phildellio.tripod.com/kirk.jpg
― clemenza, Thursday, 6 February 2020 03:26 (four years ago) link
best perfs imho w/out thinking much about it
1. PATHS OF GLORY2. ACE IN THE HOLE3. THE BIG SKY4. OUT OF THE PAST5. DETECTIVE STORY6. CHAMPION7. LONELY ARE THE BRAVE8. SEVEN DAYS IN MAY9. IN HARM'S WAY10. THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 February 2020 04:39 (four years ago) link
He makes a great patsy in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.
― clemenza, Thursday, 6 February 2020 05:02 (four years ago) link
Rule of 3 says one more celebrity rapist has to die soon.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 6 February 2020 05:10 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eV6vRLDj_s
― buzza, Thursday, 6 February 2020 05:19 (four years ago) link
is there a credible source for the natalie wood allegation? the only one i can find came from an anonymous blogger in 2012:
https://gawker.com/5893793/did-robert-downey-jr-really-just-accuse-kirk-douglas-of-a-brutal-rape
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 6 February 2020 07:05 (four years ago) link
not so far that ive seen
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 February 2020 11:53 (four years ago) link
aiui the incident is fairly well-documented in the Suzanne Finstad bio with corroboration from several sources http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1470142.stmThe older actor isn’t named but Douglas’s name has kept coming up in the last few years, feels like an open secret - looking on twitter today it seems wood’s sister talked about it on a podcast recently and said she would reveal the name of the rapist once he had died. I’m sure there were lots of still-living actors of the period she could have been referring to other than the guy everyone says it is tho
― wee jim o’conor (wins), Thursday, 6 February 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link
🎶 kirk douglas, check it and see / he passed away he was 103 🎶— blaine capatch (@blainecapatch) February 5, 2020
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Thursday, 6 February 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
There are many things that can and will be said about Kirk Douglas and I am here right now to say that I really enjoy his running-of-the-oars scene in Richard Fleischer's The Vikings (1958). https://t.co/B6FFeHwu1L— 𝕮𝖔𝖒𝖊 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕲𝖊𝖙 𝕸𝖊, 𝕮𝖔𝖕𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖘 (@NickPinkerton) February 5, 2020
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 February 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link
I enjoyed his blog posts at the huffington post back when he was 101.
Pretty horrified to read about these natalie wood allegations. Not sure if it’s more than a rumor though.
― treeship., Thursday, 6 February 2020 23:37 (four years ago) link
roundup
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6815-kirk-douglas-the-fighter
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 February 2020 18:23 (four years ago) link
I saw The Bad and the Beautiful on Criterion Channel for the first time since the Poppy Bush years. Jeez, is it garish – Sirk without the irony (and of course co-starring Lana Turner). Douglas is a compelling force; every other performance is awful.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 February 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
Oscar winner Gloria Grahame! (v small role)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 February 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
watched 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with my son yesterday, that was fun (horrific treatment of sea turtles and african-americans standing in for south asian cannibals notwithstanding)
ppl going on about the Natalie Wood rape allegation seem to be unaware of the extent to which she was explicitly pimped out by her mother...? Like, I imagine she was abused by quite a number of Hollywood men at the time, and there are rumors about a lot of them (Sinatra, etc.)
― Οὖτις, Monday, 10 February 2020 18:45 (four years ago) link
also another vote for Out of the Past, he is great in that, playing against type too
― Οὖτις, Monday, 10 February 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
The moment in Out of the Past where he realizes how much he’s been played for a fool and the mask slips is incredible.
― JoeStork, Monday, 10 February 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
is he really THAT much against type in OotP? It's fairly early in his career (second or third film?) for one thing...
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 February 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link
It's not so much type, Shakey, as OTTP's getting made during the embryonic period of his career. He still hadn't found a persona yet.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 February 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius),
Among the worst cornpone accents ever heard. No idea why she won when the Academy coulda rewarded her for Crossfire or nominated her for In a Lonely Place, The Big Heat, Sudden Fear, Human Desire, etc.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 February 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
Because Oscar!
I remember the promos for this TV movie -- titled Mousey in the US -- from when I was a kid ('74). I figured no one would ever bring it up if I didn't; imagine Kirk as your biology teacher. With Jean Seberg, Dean Wormer and Bessie Love!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgOkDfwZ1Qc
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 February 2020 19:03 (four years ago) link
he was in an amazing number of good movies and good in a number of not-amazing movies
I like the Douglas/Lancaster battle of giant uniformed egos in Seven Days in May
he's also well suited to amp up the dread and paranoia in The Fury, one of the better big-budget horror films of the 70s
― Brad C., Monday, 10 February 2020 19:07 (four years ago) link
Less commented on but highly watchable: In Harm's Way.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 February 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
in which his character takes a horrifying, unexpected turn...
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 February 2020 19:14 (four years ago) link
looking on twitter today it seems wood’s sister talked about it on a podcast recently and said she would reveal the name of the rapist once he had died.
podcast was from 2018
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 05:35 (four years ago) link
Michael Douglas claims father Kirk used last words to back Mike Bloomberg https://t.co/WyVtsOodio pic.twitter.com/c3FRmgeqml— Page Six (@PageSix) February 11, 2020
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
that's nice
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link