Michael Douglas on His Early Career Struggles and Overcoming Stage Fright
Michael Douglas on how his first starring television role, Streets of San Francisco, forced him to overcome his stage fright.
Michael Douglas on how his first starring television role, Streets of San Francisco, forced him to overcome his stage fright.
Everyone should have a friend like Shep Gordon.
It’s been a while since Michael Douglas really had a role he could get into. With Behind the Candelabra, in which he portrays Liberace, Douglas might have his best role in over a dozen years.
When director Steven Soderbergh begin working on the long-in-development biopic about flamboyant entertainer Liberace, he didn’t have to look far for an actor who would play Liberace’s lover Scott Thorson. Soderbergh turned to frequent collaborator Matt Damon to star as Thorson in Behind the Candelabra, based on the titular book by Thorson, opposite Michael Douglas as the world-famous entertainer.
A biopic has been in the works on flamboyant entertainer Liberace has been in the works for some time, with Michael Douglas attached to play the lead. The biopic, titled Behind the Candelabra and based on the book by Liberace’s lover Scott Thorson, is finally set to air on HBO in the spring.
Here is the first photo of the cast of Last Vegas, the new film starring Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline. The film comes out Christmas 2013.
A lawmaker from Australia was accused of stealing a portion of dialogue from the movie The American President while giving a speech to journalists in Canberra on Wednesday.
MICHAEL DOUGLAS is an award-winning actor and producer with a career spanning more than 40 years that encompasses theater, film and television. He was already a successful actor when he branched out into independent feature production in 1975 with the Academy Award®-winning drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.