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...A two-time Oscar-winner, he has his own decades of history in Hollywood, as did his late father Kirk, who had a favourite table....
...In Quarterback, yet another Netflix sports doc, Kirk Cousins comes across as the earnest, dweeby workhorse against the flashier talents of others such as Patrick Mahomes....
...Kirk’s physical tracking of Sofi’s unravelling is beautifully observed, slumping further down her lounger as normal life recedes....
...Oscar the Grouch appeared with Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday to help the data-company billionaire publicise recycling initiatives....
...An Oscar-nominated Willem Dafoe plays Max Schreck, who played Count Orlok....
...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....
...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.”...
...(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...
...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)....
...He has been Oscar-nominated twice but there are some duds in his CV. Late last year he starred in Bird Box — one of Netflix’s most successful original films....
...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)....
...When he took a role that Kirk would have loved, Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, he ate it alive. Best Actor Oscar 1988: rest, history....
...(Late Night with Seth Meyers) Starring Meryl Streep as Donald Trump The three-time Oscar winner donned orange face makeup and pompadoured hair to portray the presumptive Republican nominee at a charity...
...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....
...Trumbo, while blacklisted, wrote two Oscar-winning scripts (Roman Holiday, The Brave One) using first a friend’s name, then a sobriquet....
...“This is why I like Black Lives Matter,” said Prof Kirk Harris, an African-American lawyer and professor of urban planning who co-founded NGO Fathers, Families and Healthy Communities....
...“He was tough as nails, he was quiet as a mouse and he was respected by all,” said Oscar Goodman, former Las Vegas mayor and former mob lawyer, the Associated Press reported....
...“When we opened, that part of town was still pretty much like the Wild West,” says Cure’s 39-year-old co-founder, Kirk Estopinal. “Yet the bar was a success, pretty much straight off the rip.”...
...Kirk Douglas, who had triumphed in the Broadway adaptation of Ken Kesey’s book, was sidelined for the film with the endorsement of Kirk’s son Michael Douglas, who owned the rights (received from Kirk) and...
...In London, Oscar Wilde conducted his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas at the Savoy while they lived in adjoining rooms....
...As Colin Firth accepted his heroic, long-deserved best actor Oscar for The King’s Speech – a familial odyssey for George VI of a slightly different kind – I was on my way home....
...My father [actor Kirk Douglas, now 93] is a pretty tenacious and strong man, and also my mother [Kirk’s first wife, Bermudian actress Diana Dill], who’s had a few bouts with cancer herself....
...who won an Oscar for MGM with Rain Man....
...Not like Kirk Douglas – he named them all, Marlene Dietrich, bleedin’ Marilyn Monroe, everybody!” As for the films, he says, touching every piece of wood in the vicinity, they keep rolling in....
...In what can only be described as the Oscars of the business school world, eight of the world’s most socially-aware academics are to receive awards from the Aspen Institute Center for Business Education in...
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