Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Curious Intimacies by Anne Douglas Curious Intimacies by Anne Douglas. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:27:04 +0000. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:13:37 +0000. Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:31:57 +0000. Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:43:36 +0000. Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:53:12 +0000. Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:04:43 +0000. Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:37:35 +0000. Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:20:40 +0000. Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:17:39 +0000. And she says with great zeal: I WILL be productive this year! Feel free to publicly flay me if by March there isn’t a new SOLD post on this blog. Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:48:07 +0000. http://annedouglas.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/interview-tidbits/ Come over to Lynn Crain’s blog to find out more about me, and about His Intimate Submission. The first review for HIS from BookBinge: “Douglas is very effective at building the foundation of mutual respect and desire between Lucy and Jason. It’s clear in how carefully Lucy researches the lifestyle that she really cares about Jason and wants the experience to be fulfilling for him.” “…the story features very hot sexual encounters between a couple who are both likeable and clearly seem to care deeply for each other” And from @girrlitsbooks on twitter : ‘Loved it! Want another story with them! ‘ & ‘loved the characters and the learning IYKWIM’ & ‘It worked for this reader’ And Bookbinge on Curious Intimacies: ‘Anne Douglas has a strong imagination, and while this novella is only 44 pages, it’s well written. Douglas does a nice job of giving the reader enough information about Shane’s friendship with Jason, as well as laying the foundation of Lucy and Jason’s relationship, so that the encounter is plausible.’ Kirk Douglas leaves most of his $80 million fortune to charity. Anne Douglas, widow of late actor Kirk Douglas, dead at 102. Michael Douglas pays tribute to father Kirk on anniversary of his death. Kirk Douglas' widow celebrates 101st birthday with car procession. Catherine Zeta-Jones introduces new puppy following Kirk Douglas' death. Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas was always a pretty charitable guy — and that didn’t end with his death earlier this month. The silver-screen icon, who died Feb. 5 at the age of 103, left the bulk of his $80 million estate to the Douglas Foundation, the charity he co- founded nearly six decades ago, it was revealed Sunday. The nonprofit benefits the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, The Kirk and Anne Douglas Childhood Center and a St. Lawrence University scholarship for underprivileged students. The Douglas Foundation, created in 1964 by Douglas and his wife Anne Beydens Douglas, also doles out dollars to Westwood’s Sinai Temple and Culver City’s Kirk Douglas Theater, a restored venue. Anne Douglas, who was married to the acting legend for 65 years, still serves as the nonprofit’s managing trustee. “The Douglas Foundation’s principal goal is to help those who cannot otherwise help themselves,” the group’s website says. “Its primary focus is improving education and health, fostering the well-being, and most importantly developing new opportunities for the child who hold our future in their hands.” Douglas is known for classic films like “Spartacus,” “Lust for Life” and “Ace in the Hole” — and as the father of famed actor Michael Douglas. In addition to Anne, he is survived by Joel Douglas, the couple’s son, and Peter and Michael, his sons from his first marriage. Joel is a film producer and Peter is a television producer. A fourth son, Eric, died of an accidental overdose in Manhattan in 2004. Michael doesn’t stand to inherit any dough — not that he would need it. The “Wall Street” star is worth about $300 million in his own right. see also. The long and illustrious life of Kirk Douglas. Michael — along with his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones — praised his father’s loving and charitable ways when he announced his death this month. “Kirk’s life was well-lived, and he leaves a legacy in film that will endure for generations to come and a history as a renowned philanthropist who worked to aid the public and bring peace to the planet,” Michael Douglas said in a statement at the time. “But to me and my brothers Joel and Peter, he was simply Dad,” the younger Douglas said. “To Catherine, a wonderful father-in-law, to his grandchildren and great-grandchild their living grandfather, and to his wife, Anne, a wonderful husband.” He called his late father “a humanitarian whose commitment to justice and the causes he believed in set a standard for all of us to aspire to.” Kirk Douglas was born in Amsterdam to Jewish immigrant parents from present-day Belarus. His acting career in the US spanned seven decades. 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On June 26, Turner Classic Movies and Warner Home Video will release a DVD boxed set of three of Douglas' finest films: 1950's Young Man With a Horn , 1952's The Bad and the Beautiful and 1956's Lust for Life . A portion of proceeds will go to the Motion Picture & Television Fund Home, which he and Anne Douglas , his wife of 58 years, have long supported. Share this article on Facebook Share this article on Twitter Share this article on Email Show additional share options Share this article on Print Share this article on Comment Share this article on Whatsapp Share this article on Linkedin Share this article on Reddit Share this article on Pinit Share this article on Tumblr. The time is fast approaching when movie buffs curious to learn about Hollywood’s “Golden Age” — that fabled time, more than a half-century ago, when studios were still run by moguls and employed directors and stars to churn out movies as if they were working on the production line of a dream factory — will be able to consult only second-hand sources. The most high-profile men of that period, even those from the tail end of it who rose to prominence during and immediately after World War II, have dwindled far faster than the women, and today number only a few. There’s Mickey Rooney , 91, who was a child star; Ernest Borgnine , 95, and Eli Wallach , 96, who were character actors; and Stanley Donen , 88, who was a choreographer and later a director. However, all of that generation’s leading men — Robert Mitchum , Montgomery Clift , Gregory Peck , Van Johnson , Burt Lancaster , John Garfield , Laurence Olivier , Frank Sinatra , Richard Widmark , William Holden , Marlon Brando , and Glenn Ford — are now gone, some for many years already. All, that is, except for Kirk Douglas . When one reaches a milestone age like 95, as Douglas did in December, it’s only natural to take stock of one’s life and try to gauge how one got there, where one is going, and what really matters. Earlier this month, it was my good fortune to document such stocktaking by Douglas over the course of two hours at his home in Beverly Hills. 52 years after the release of his most famous film, Spartacus , his thick hair, once blonde, is now snow white, and his speech is somewhat slurred as a result of a severe stroke that he suffered in 1996, but his memory and sense of humor proved to be as sharp as ever. Douglas was the only boy among seven children born to a pair of Russian Jews who wound up in Amsterdam, a small town in upstate New York. His birth name was Issur Danielovitch, but his parents soon adopted the last name Demsky, and he eventually started using the first name Izzy. It’s something of a miracle that he ever made it out of Amsterdam, considering how poor his family was. Members of the small Jewish community in the largely anti-Semitic neighborhood, aware of his prowess at Hebrew studies, considered pooling their resources together to send him to rabbinical school. But Douglas says that he already knew what his ticket out would be: “I wanted to be an actor ever since I was a kid in the second grade. I did a play, and my mother made a black apron, and I played a shoemaker. And my father, who never interested himself in what I was doing, was in the back, and I didn’t know it. After the performance, he gave me my first Oscar: an ice cream cone. I’ve never forgotten that.” When a friend of Demsky’s came home from St. Lawrence University after his freshman year, he urged his pal to return with him in the fall. Demsky had only $163 to his name, but had earned good grades during high school, and decided to try to talk his way into a spot of his own. The two hitchhiked the entire way, including the last stretch of it on a fertilizer truck, so that when they arrived they “didn’t smell very good, and the Dean was sniffing.” Nevertheless, he was admitted with a loan that he repaid by working odd jobs when he wasn’t in classes. Then, one summer during college, he took a job at a summer stock playhouse in the Adirondacks, where he met a fellow actor and child of immigrants who had changed his name from George Sekulovich, and suggested that Demsky change his own to Kirk Douglas. ( Karl Malden would become a lifelong friend and ultimately costar with Douglas’ son, Michael Douglas , on the seventies TV series The Streets of San Francisco .) Upon graduation in 1939, Douglas headed to New York, where he won a scholarship to the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts. There, he befriended a younger classmate named Betty Joan Perske, who would change his life, both before and after she changed her name to Lauren Bacall. Their lifelong friendship was cemented, he says, by one specific act of kindness on her part: “I had a thin coat that someone had given me, and it was winter, and she looked at that coat and thought I must be freezing, so she went to her uncle, talked him out of an overcoat, and gave it to me. I wore it for two years.” Not long after Douglas completed his two years at the American Academy, World War II broke out, and he enlisted in the Navy. At the conclusion of the war, he returned to New York and starred in roughly 10 theatrical productions, including a few on Broadway, but his career was going nowhere fast. (In his stage debut, he provided an echo from backstage for one word spoken by a character onstage.) Meanwhile, Bacall had moved to Hollywood and become a star opposite Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not , but had not forgotten about her old friend. “Again, she played a part in my life,” Douglas marvels. “There was a producer, Hal Wallis , who was going to New York, and she said, ‘Listen, when you go to New York, you must see an actor: Kirk Douglas.’” Wallis did see him, was impressed, and offered to test him for a role opposite Barbara Stanwyck in The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers (1946), so Douglas caught the next train to Hollywood. (Just four years later, he shared top billing on a picture, Young Man with a Horn , with Bacall.) After Martha Ivers , Wallis wanted to put Douglas under a seven-year contract, like most stars of that era. Douglas recalls, “He said, ‘I want you to sign a seven-year deal, or I’ll drop you.’ Somehow, that made me mad. So I said, ‘Drop me!’ And he did. Now I was without a contract, which was rare in those days. But I survived.” He spent the next three years playing supporting parts, several in very good films like Out of the Past (1947) and A Letter to Three Wives (1949). Then, a pivotal moment arrived. He was offered a lot of money to act opposite Ava Gardner and Gregory Peck in a big-budget pic called The Great Sinner , but turned it down in order to instead star in a low-budget film with no other stars and for virtually no money. “[My agents] thought I was crazy… they were flabbergasted. I turned it down because I wanted to play a tough guy,” and the other film would provide him with a chance to do just that. As it turned out, The Great Sinner was a flop, whereas Champion , in which Douglas portrays a boxer who craves respect, became a huge hit, brought him a best actor Oscar nomination, and made him a star. (He can still recite from memory the line in the film to which he could most relate: “I’m not gonna be a ‘hey-you’ all my life. I wanna hear people call me ‘Mister’!”) After Champion , Douglas says, a lot of things in his life changed — his anonymity evaporated, his price tag soared, and he got to play even meatier parts in more memorable films for top-notch directors, like an opportunistic journalist in Billy Wilder ’s Ace in the Hole (1951), a corrupt cop in William Wyler ’s Detective Story (1951), a ruthless Hollywood producer in Vincente Minnelli ’s The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), for which he received his second best actor Oscar nomination, and the tortured artist Vincent van Gogh in Minnelli’s Lust for Life (1956), for which he received his third. Other things, however, remained the same. When he made a trip back to Amsterdam to visit his friends and relatives, he found his father, who was now estranged from the family, at a local saloon, and had a conversation that he recounts as follows: “I came in. ‘Hi, Dad.’ [imitates his father’s grunt of acknowledgment] ‘I did a picture, Dad. Champion .’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘Did you see it?’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘Did you like it?’ ‘Yeah.’ [long silence] Well, that was my meeting with my father. He was not impressed.” Douglas was never to be close with his father, something that seems to have always eaten at him. He doesn’t disagree with his own son Michael’s belief that “Dad is still looking for a pat on the back from his father.” As for his mother, though, Douglas always had a soft spot. In the heart of his career, he craved “the opportunity to find some projects that I wanted to do,” so, in 1955, he did something that Burt Lancaster but few if any other actors had done at the time, and formed his own production company, which he named Bryna Productions, after his mother. The company produced several of the best films in which Douglas ever acted, including Paths of Glory (1957), The Vikings (1958), Spartacus (1960), Lonely Are the Brave (1962), and Seven Days in May (1964). He grins, “When I think of my mother, who couldn’t read or write, a legal peasant from Russia– I took her in a limousine to Times Square, and I stopped the car, and I said [gesturing toward a massive billboard above], ‘See Ma? BRYNA PRESENTS THE VIKINGS !’ And my mother said, ‘America — such a wonderful land!’” It seems that it cannot be a coincidence that Douglas did some of his best work — in Paths of Glory , Lonely Are the Brave (his personal favorite of his films), and certainly Spartacus — when inhabiting characters who refuse to accept the way things are and instead fight to make them the way they ought to be. The secret to Kirk and Anne Douglas's 63-year marriage? Turning a blind eye to infidelity. W hat makes for a long and happy Hollywood marriage in an industry full of acrimonious divorces? Turning a blind eye to infidelity, one long-term showbiz wife claims. Anne Douglas, who married Golden Age actor Kirk in 1954, has said she has always been aware of her husband's extra-marital affairs, but chose to accept them, in a new book, Kirk and Anne: Letter of Love, Laughter and a Lifetime in Hollywood. "Kirk never tried to hide his dalliances from me," the 98-year-old wrote. "As a European, I understood it was unrealistic to expect total fidelity in a marriage". W hile married to Anne, Douglas had affairs with Rita Hayworth, Patricia Neal, Faye Dunaway and Christina Crawford, daughter of Joan. He also tried to seduce Lauren Bacall, but was unsuccessful. The extent of his philandering was detailed in his 1988 biography, The Ragman’s Son, with Anne's permission. She reasoned: "Kirk secured my permission before including stories of his trysts. I’m positive his candor helped him make the book a major bestseller". A rguably, other women always been part of the Douglas's relationship. They met while Douglas was engaged to Pier Angeli, a young actress who appeared opposite him in the 1953 film The Story of Three Loves. Anne, whose maiden name was Buydens, was a film PR living in Paris at the time and reluctant to meet Douglas. "I had done the public relations in Paris on Moulin Rouge", she told the LA Times, "I worked with John Huston for about a year. I had another movie to do after Moulin Rouge. The director [Anatole Litvak] wanted me to be the PR lady on the movie Act of Love with Kirk Douglas." S he was introduced to Douglas by a photographer friend, who said, "Come on, let me take you to the lion’s den". Douglas had been photographed with a string of beautiful women in the Parisian press. A nne turned down both Douglas's offer of work and dinner, which only enthused the actor more. He wrote in the LA Times in 2014: "The fact that I didn't impress her certainly impressed me, and I was determined to win her over. Anyone who knows my story knows the rest. She did join the production, and we courted in France and Italy. After I returned to the States, I invited her to come for a visit." The pair married once Douglas had broken his engagement to Angeli and Anne threatened to leave him. He remembers realising he would be "lost without her" after watching her pack her bags. Anne and Kirk had two sons, producer Peter and Eric, an actor, who died in 2004 from an accidental overdose of alcohol and prescription drugs. She also stayed connected to former lovers, recalling one incident in which an old flame threatened to throw himself out of his hotel window if she didn't return to him. "After 60 years of marriage, you go through a lot of obstacles," she told Closer in 2015, "and all of them were beautiful".