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InterviewLunch with the FT
Actor Michael Douglas: ‘What roles haven’t I done?’
...“He stepped up,” Douglas says. I wonder if the relationship with Kirk changed over the years, after the distance between the two in his childhood. Kirk was “very, very busy [when I was] growing up....
April 12, 2024
InterviewFashion
Giancarlo Giammetti: ‘We couldn’t launch Valentino today’
...When she wore a Valentino white dress at the premiere of Spartacus in 1960 and danced with Kirk Douglas, the photographs went around the world.”...
December 5, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewFilm
Thirteen Lives film review — Ron Howard’s sober telling of the 2018 Thai cave rescue
...In the classic 1951 noir Ace in the Hole, Kirk Douglas plays a cynical reporter marooned in New Mexico when a local man is trapped by a cave collapse....
July 28, 2022
FT Best ofBest of FT Money 2022
ESG exposed in a world of changing priorities
...Thus, as the historian Douglas Brinkley points out, when environmental activists such as Rachel Carson embarked on the “Silent Spring” movement in the 1960s, they collaborated with politicians (from both...
June 3, 2022
ReviewTelevision
Robert Burns: No Holds Bard offers a frank assessment of the Scottish poet
...Coles travels to the kirk where Burns was forced to do penance in front of the entire congregation for his sinful ways....
January 22, 2021
ObituaryKirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas, Hollywood actor, 1916—2020
...Gritted teeth, an adamantine dimpled jaw and a voice sounding as if it came through a meat grinder: for a postwar movie generation Kirk Douglas, who has died aged 103, was the definition of macho....
February 6, 2020
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Film
‘Black Bear’ and the dark gaze of film-making
...Then there’s Vincente Minnelli’s The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), which stars Kirk Douglas as unscrupulous producer Jonathan Shields....
April 13, 2021
Robert Armstrong
Bob Dylan: the trickster strikes again
...Overexposure, museum-shop tchotchkes, Don MacLean and Kirk Douglas has made that impossible....
December 11, 2020
Film
BingeWatch — fatale attraction of classic film noir
...Robert Mitchum lured from sleepy east California back to his dark past by Kirk Douglas via Jane Greer, playing one of the most fatal of femmes fatales....
August 27, 2020
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz solutions
...Round on the Links The link was religious buildings Abbey National (in 1989) The Hermitage (St Petersburg) Wat Tyler Murder in the Cathedral Bristol Temple Meads Vicarage Road The Priory Kirk Douglas...
November 22, 2019
FirstFT
FirstFT: Today’s top stories
...(Economist) Kirk Douglas, Hollywood actor, 1916-2020 With gritted teeth, an adamantine jaw and the voice of a meat grinder, Kirk Douglas, who has died at the age of 103, personified masculinity for a postwar...
February 6, 2020
Special ReportFT Health: Regenerative Medicine
Gene editing success heralds era of animal-to-human transplants
...Allan Douglas Kirk, professor of surgery at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, says he is optimistic about clinical activity in the “near future”....
December 9, 2019
Film
My night in the Hollywood museum
...Take this 1954 letter, from the late Kirk Douglas, to director George Cukor: “May I please work for you . . . please? I’ll learn to sing, dance, roller skate, any damn thing you want.”...
February 14, 2020
ReviewFilm
Willem Dafoe excels as Van Gogh in Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate
...There have been a lot of Van Gogh movies, from teeth-gnashing Kirk Douglas in Lust for Life to Loving Vincent’s tour de force animations via Martin Scorsese for Kurosawa (Dreams)....
March 27, 2019
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz solutions
...Round on the Links The link was Captains, in fact and fiction Ahab Alastair Cook (for scoring a century in his last Test innings) Flint Kirk Douglas Letter from America — with Alistair Cooke (initially...
November 30, 2018
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
UK prime property
Isle of Man adds Unesco status to list of incentives
...Near Kirk Michael, Carter Moon is selling a six-bedroom home on six and half acres for £5.9m....
February 28, 2019
View from the CockpitMark Vanhoenacker
Back to the future of flying: New York’s new TWA hotel
...On her many flights from New York she served Milton Berle; Frankie Avalon — “of course, a crush of mine”; and, on a nonstop “to the coast”, ie, Los Angeles, none other than Kirk Douglas....
July 5, 2019
InterviewCrime books
James Ellroy on his dark places
...On the day the police found Ellroy’s mother, he and his Dad had just watched a Kirk Douglas movie — The Vikings. The last he saw with his mother, a few days earlier, was Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo....
May 31, 2019
Life & Arts
Alfonso Cuarón wins the Golden Lion at Venice
...Best Actor went to Willem Dafoe, who by playing Van Gogh in Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate follows in the footsteps of Kirk Douglas, Tim Roth and Benedict Cumberbatch (yes, really)....
September 10, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
Theatertreffen 2018, various venues, Berlin — chock-full of ideas
...Douglas) as they recount their interpretations of his odyssey....
May 21, 2018
Life & Arts
Kirk Douglas: an enduring lust for life
...Kirk Douglas, who turns 100 in December, is still Kirk Douglas, alive and dimple-chinned somewhere in that greater fantasy cosmos called America....
August 26, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
Gold: Matthew McConaughey is a fantastically overdone ham
...It’s a fantastically overdone performance — Kirk Douglas on steroids. Perhaps he knows that every other actor is giving up in face of the tosh-intensive script and decreasing plot credibility....
February 2, 2017
ReviewLife & Arts
Trumbo — film review: ‘Bryan Cranston is superb’
...Kirk Douglas did similar for Spartacus. Cranston is superb. The Breaking Bad actor, in best form, is an attack dog: he goes at lines like a mutt at a mutton bone....
February 4, 2016
US presidential election
Trump’s attacks on judge spook anxious Republicans
...“It is widely recognised that Hispanics are an increasing part of the electorate,” said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum and a former adviser to the John McCain presidential campaign...
June 8, 2016
Life & Arts
Journalism in the movies
...Instead, Kirk Douglas snarls and sneers as newsman Chuck Tatum, marooned in Albuquerque after disgraces back in New York. Salvation arrives when a local man is caught in a collapsed desert cave....
January 15, 2016

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