I am Spartacus.......Kirk Douglas dies at 103

[Carl in Michigan]

A Hollywood icon in the 50s and 60s

I would say that's sad but 103 years is a pretty good run for anyone. I doubt very highly that I'll live that long. I'm looking for the reaper to pop up any where and any time now. I'm the last of my immediate family still alive and both of my younger brothers have already preceeded me. Maybe I'm just more stubborn and meaner.

You never know

With medical treatments today, 100 is not unachievable

In 20 years 100 years old will be the new 50 years old.

Cool. I got a lot longer than 20 years to be 100. Maybe 100 will be the new 30 when I get there!

 

[rightwinger]

One of the greats from the golden era of Hollywood RIP Kirk.

Kirk Douglas
Burt Lancaster
Henry Fonda
Jimmy Stewart
John Wayne
Cary Grant
Humphrey Bogart
Jimmy Cagney
Clark Gable

They were all unique and all irreplaceable. None of today's actors in my opinion are even fit to shine their shoes. The same with all the great actresses from Old Hollywood, Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn etc.

When Old Hollywood was called The Golden Era it really was, such an incredible amount of original talent in ONE place all at the SAME time, this has never been repeated and it never will be repeated.

I don’t see the star power you had back then. Actors you will see a movie just because they are in it.

Tom Hanks, Robert DeNiro, Redford, Eastwood are still around

 

[skye]

Kirk Douglas was extremely handsome in my opinion, much better looking than his sons

 

[rightwinger]

A Hollywood icon in the 50s and 60s

I would say that's sad but 103 years is a pretty good run for anyone. I doubt very highly that I'll live that long. I'm looking for the reaper to pop up any where and any time now. I'm the last of my immediate family still alive and both of my younger brothers have already preceeded me. Maybe I'm just more stubborn and meaner.

You never know

With medical treatments today, 100 is not unachievable

In 20 years 100 years old will be the new 50 years old.

When I grew up, life expectancy was 62. I’m 63 now and not close to kicking it in. Cancer, Heart Attacks, Stroke, Diabetes used to be a death sentence. Now you live for decades

Look how long Kirk Douglas lived after a near fatal stroke

 

[rightwinger]

Kirk Douglas was extremely handsome in my opinion, much better looking than his sons

I think he looks a lot like Michael Douglas

 

[skye]

Kirk Douglas was extremely handsome in my opinion, much better looking than his sons

I think he looks a lot like Michael Douglas

He does, but he is even better looking.


The photo you posted is not fair lol......dad is old and the son young....I am talking when Kirk was young he was better looking than his sons at the same age

 

[Carl in Michigan]

A Hollywood icon in the 50s and 60s

I would say that's sad but 103 years is a pretty good run for anyone. I doubt very highly that I'll live that long. I'm looking for the reaper to pop up any where and any time now. I'm the last of my immediate family still alive and both of my younger brothers have already preceeded me. Maybe I'm just more stubborn and meaner.

You never know

With medical treatments today, 100 is not unachievable

In 20 years 100 years old will be the new 50 years old.

When I grew up, life expectancy was 62. I’m 63 now and not close to kicking it in. Cancer, Heart Attacks, Stroke, Diabetes used to be a death sentence. Now you live for decades

Look how long Kirk Douglas lived after a near fatal stroke

Can't remember the exact figures, but they said if you make it to 60, you have x% chance of making it to 100. It was pretty high.

When I was growing up I used to hear about people dying of a heart attack in their late 50s all the time. That seems pretty rare these days.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

One of the greats from the golden era of Hollywood RIP Kirk.

Kirk Douglas
Burt Lancaster
Henry Fonda
Jimmy Stewart
John Wayne
Cary Grant
Humphrey Bogart
Jimmy Cagney
Clark Gable

They were all unique and all irreplaceable. None of today's actors in my opinion are even fit to shine their shoes. The same with all the great actresses from Old Hollywood, Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn etc.

When Old Hollywood was called The Golden Era it really was, such an incredible amount of original talent in ONE place all at the SAME time, this has never been repeated and it never will be repeated.

I don’t see the star power you had back then. Actors you will see a movie just because they are in it.

Tom Hanks, Robert DeNiro, Redford, Eastwood are still around

I think it had something also to do with The Studio System, all those top five studios MGM, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Warner Brothers and Columbia had a system for finding talent and nurturing talent, that studio system ended a long time ago and so did all the glamour, I know there was a lot of seedy stuff happening also so it's not like I'm saying it was all perfect and clean during Old Hollywood, but it was more glamorous and magical as opposed to being cheap and vulgar.

I used to LOVE Robert De Niro, but unfortunately his screaming political rants have put me off him and I do try NOT to be like this because many of the actors and actresses I love have been Democrats and I try NOT to allow politics to influence me with films, art, music etc Clint Eastwood is now I think 91 or 92 and still directing, also I think Robert Duvall is still around but he must be getting old, Jack Nicholson is still around but has not made a film since 2010, I LOVE Jack Nicholson, it's going to be a very depressing day when he dies.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

He was a life long Democrat

The democrats of the fifties and sixties were nothing like the party that has morphed into woke a-holes
and socialist morons.

I was a democrat too for quite awhile and then the party was hijacked by socialist Alinsky-ite pricks
and I haven't looked back.

Seeing how the party is disintegrating before our eyes I made a wise choice. I wouldn't pee on Schiff, Pelosi, Schumer etc.
if they were on fire.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

Kirk Douglas played interesting historical figures. Michael has mostly been in schlock (Falling Down was good).
like Basic Instinct.
The Lancaster/Douglas movies were usually quite good like Seven Days in May.

 

[boedicca]

Sad to seem him go - he had an awesome life. Kirk is one of my most favorite actors of all times.

 

[percysunshine]

They should put a dimple in the H on the Hollywood sign.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

A Hollywood icon in the 50s and 60s

Natalie Wood's sister Lana and others have always said that they would name Natalie's rapist when he died, she was raped at age 16 a very BRUTAL rape by a very well known older actor who was a household name and married with children and it has been stated for a long time by many that it was Kirk Douglas who brutally raped Natalie Wood.

So now we will see if they publicly say it was Kirk Douglas or not.

If anyone wants to know about how long the above story about the rape has been already out there then just Google Kirk Douglas Natalie Wood.

Natalie Wood WISHED Kirk Douglas would look hrt way. She was stuck cheating with Christopher Walken

 

[Yarddog]

A Hollywood icon in the 50s and 60s

I would say that's sad but 103 years is a pretty good run for anyone. I doubt very highly that I'll live that long. I'm looking for the reaper to pop up any where and any time now. I'm the last of my immediate family still alive and both of my younger brothers have already preceeded me. Maybe I'm just more stubborn and meaner.

You never know

With medical treatments today, 100 is not unachievable

In 20 years 100 years old will be the new 50 years old.

Cool. I got a lot longer than 20 years to be 100. Maybe 100 will be the new 30 when I get there!

Well, the 3D printing of living tissue and body parts is being developed, though I'm afraid its still pretty far off to happen on a grand scale. The day will probably come though in the future when they can start replacing our own organs and other body parts using our own DNA

 

[tigerred59]

A Hollywood icon in the 50s and 60s

Doug was a great actor....and good father to his kids...may he forever rest in peace. Clearly he lived a long adventurous good life and I hope in the after life, he gets to meet up with the real Vincent Van Gough...., one of my favorite movies of his.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

A Hollywood icon in the 50s and 60s

Natalie Wood's sister Lana and others have always said that they would name Natalie's rapist when he died, she was raped at age 16 a very BRUTAL rape by a very well known older actor who was a household name and married with children and it has been stated for a long time by many that it was Kirk Douglas who brutally raped Natalie Wood.

So now we will see if they publicly say it was Kirk Douglas or not.

If anyone wants to know about how long the above story about the rape has been already out there then just Google Kirk Douglas Natalie Wood.

Natalie Wood WISHED Kirk Douglas would look hrt way. She was stuck cheating with Christopher Walken

No this was in the 1950s when she was 16 not in the late 1970s or 1980, not sure she was cheating with Christopher Walken he's always been weird looking, Robert Wagner better looking than Walken or Kirk Douglas and all anyone knows is that her, Walken and Wagner were on a boat and they had been drinking and she ended up in the water and everyone knew she was afraid of water and could not swim and nobody rescued her and she drowned. The case has recently been reopened.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I would say that's sad but 103 years is a pretty good run for anyone. I doubt very highly that I'll live that long. I'm looking for the reaper to pop up any where and any time now. I'm the last of my immediate family still alive and both of my younger brothers have already preceeded me. Maybe I'm just more stubborn and meaner.

Hell I don't even buy green banana's...

 

[bluzman61]

A Hollywood icon in the 50s and 60s

Sorry to hear this. He was one tough guy, unlike his pansy son, Michael. RIP, Mr. Douglas.

Michael has earned his own accolades

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good "

Michael Douglas good in "The Streets of San Francisco" and also he produced "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" and produced and co-starred in "The China Syndrome" which is a great film, apart from these things he's not that great and certainly has never been as good an actor as his father was.

Yep, I got a kick out of Hollyweird when they briefly tried to make Michael a tough guy. Black Rain, Romancing the Stone, and a few others. He was kinda tough in Wall Street, his only Oscar winning role. But he was actually more a ruthless sonofabitch than a tough guy. Then the whole debacle of him blaming his mouth cancer on something unmentionable in this part of the forums. I'm surprised Catherine Zeta didn't divorce his ass for that. Anyway, his dad was one tough hombre.

 

[Dick Foster]

Maybe I'm just more stubborn and meaner

That counts for a lot. He comes when you've surrendered.

I've fought that bastard off on several occasions but ultimately the asshole will get me too. However, I must admit that it's fun to win and cheat the bastard.

 

[Dick Foster]

I would say that's sad but 103 years is a pretty good run for anyone. I doubt very highly that I'll live that long. I'm looking for the reaper to pop up any where and any time now. I'm the last of my immediate family still alive and both of my younger brothers have already preceeded me. Maybe I'm just more stubborn and meaner.

Hell I don't even buy green banana's...

Yeah I know what you mean.