{"product_id":"untitled-memoir-by-michael-douglas-9781035446377","title":"Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This book is about where I came from, what I fought against, and what I chose for\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003emyself. Fame can blur the truth; this is my attempt to bring it back into focus.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA legendary actor and Hollywood Icon whose five-decade career spans film, television,\u003cbr\u003eand producing, Michael Douglas has won two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, five\u003cbr\u003eGolden Globes, a Primetime Emmy, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and the AFI Life\u003cbr\u003eAchievement Award, among many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDouglas starred in and produced some of the most successful movies of all time, including\u003cbr\u003eOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Romancing the Stone, The China Syndrome, Fatal\u003cbr\u003eAttraction, Black Rain, Wall Street, Basic Instinct, Disclosure, The Game, Wonder Boys,\u003cbr\u003eTraffic, and Behind the Candelabra. His films have defined cultural moments and\u003cbr\u003esometimes whole decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this raw, career-sweeping memoir, he tells the unfiltered story of his life. Initially\u003cbr\u003edismissed as only Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas' handsome son, Douglas stunned\u003cbr\u003eHollywood and the world when he won his first Oscar at just thirty years old for producing\u003cbr\u003ethe multi-Academy Award winning classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Once told he\u003cbr\u003ewould be nothing more than a television actor, he walked off the hit series The Streets of\u003cbr\u003eSan Francisco to become a global movie star whose films have grossed billions of dollars.\u003cbr\u003eRejected for serious acting roles that he saw go to his Hollywood pals Jack Nicholson and\u003cbr\u003eWarren Beatty, he refused to be typecast and won his second Academy Award for his\u003cbr\u003eiconic performance as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with Douglas's childhood and complicated relationship with his father, the\u003cbr\u003ememoir traces his path to success with news-breaking behind-the-scenes stories of his\u003cbr\u003erise to fame. Yet as Douglas's fame rose, so did his personal struggles, and here for the\u003cbr\u003efirst time is the full, candid story of the challenges he and his family faced, from affairs\u003cbr\u003ewith some of the most celebrated actresses in Hollywood, his own serious drug addiction\u003cbr\u003ewhich threaten to destroy his first marriage and career, the heartbreaking battle to save\u003cbr\u003ehis son from a terrible drug addiction that sent him to federal prison at thirty-one years\u003cbr\u003eold, and an against-all-odds battle with stage four cancer. His love affair with Oscar\u003cbr\u003ewinner Catherine Zeta Jones was initially dismissed as just another Hollywood\u003cbr\u003erelationship, but they proved the skeptics wrong about their age gap and stayed together\u003cbr\u003ethrough relationship troubles, health issues, tabloid gossip and are still going strong after\u003cbr\u003etwenty-five years of marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47299232006380,"sku":"9781035446377","price":32.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781035446377.jpg?v=1770857155","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/untitled-memoir-by-michael-douglas-9781035446377","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}