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Didn’t get a chance to see Hannah Gadsby‘s Douglas in person? Good news: Netflix is giving you a front-row seat later this spring.

The streamer will drop Gadsby’s latest comedy special on Tuesday, May 26, TVLine has learned.

Douglas, which is named after Gadsby’s eldest dog, is described as “a tour from the dog park to the Renaissance and back, guided by one of comedy’s most sparkling and surprising minds.” Gadsby previously performed Douglas at venues around the world, including a stop in Los Angeles where the hour-long Netflix special was filmed.

“I’m really enjoying touring with the live performance, but there will be places in the world that I won’t be able to visit, so it’s wonderful that Netflix will bring the show to every corner of the globe,” Gadsby said in May 2019, when her team-up with the streaming service was first announced.

Gadsby’s previous stand-up special, Nanette, was released on Netflix in June 2018, making it the streamer’s first original comedy special from Australia. With its pointed commentary on LGBTQ issues — particularly Gadsby’s anecdotes about her own experience as a lesbian — the critically lauded special made Gadsby one of that year’s buzziest performers.

Will you be watching Douglas in May? Tell us in the comments!

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/hannah-gadsbys-comedy-special-douglas-to-hit-netflix-in-may/feed/ 0 Douglas Adams was right: “Genuine people personalities” are coming to our gadgets https://briefnews.eu/douglas-adams-was-right-genuine-people-personalities-are-coming-to-our-gadgets/ https://briefnews.eu/douglas-adams-was-right-genuine-people-personalities-are-coming-to-our-gadgets/#respond Sat, 22 Dec 2018 23:21:54 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/douglas-adams-was-right-genuine-people-personalities-are-coming-to-our-gadgets/

I remember the first time I read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It was back in junior high, around 1982, before I knew about the radio series. I got to the part where the automatic door talks to Arthur Dent, and I remember very clearly thinking: “This is ridiculous. Why would an automatic door need a personality? Why would it talk to people passing through it?”

Never mind that Zaphod Beeblebrox had a third arm and a second head surgically implanted beside his original head (for vanity reasons). Or that the spaceship Heart of Gold ran on something called an Infinite Improbability Drive. Or that a live fish stuck in your ear could translate any language into one you could understand.

The thing that seemed most improbable to me was that inanimate objects would be infused with personalities… just for the hell of it.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/douglas-adams-was-right-genuine-people-personalities-are-coming-to-our-gadgets/feed/ 0 Carry on films: Angela Douglas loved every minute on comedy classics https://briefnews.eu/carry-on-films-angela-douglas-loved-every-minute-on-comedy-classics/ https://briefnews.eu/carry-on-films-angela-douglas-loved-every-minute-on-comedy-classics/#respond Tue, 06 Nov 2018 20:02:40 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/carry-on-films-angela-douglas-loved-every-minute-on-comedy-classics/

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ANGELA DOUGLAS is best remembered as the glamorous, often upper-crust young leading lady in a series of Carry On films. 

But she gained a different sort of fame when she shocked 1960s Britain by falling passionately in love with the actor Kenneth More, who was a household name thanks to his starring role as Second World War flying ace Douglas Bader in Reach For The Sky.

The issue was that Angela was just 21 and More was not only more than twice her age but married with a young daughter.

In a huge scandal for the time, More – renowned for playing war heroes and upright Englishmen – left his second wife Mabel to live with the petite blonde ingénue he nicknamed “Shrimp”.

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Eventually he was granted a divorce and married Angela in 1968 when he was 53 and she was 27.

Their marriage was very happy but not without its ups and downs including mutual infidelities.

There was also a brief trial separation before More’s tragic battle, beginning in the late 1970s, with muscular dystrophy and Parkinson’s – during which Angela devotedly nursed him until his death in 1982.

She movingly chronicled her eventful life with More in a best-selling memoir that is entitled Swings And Roundabouts.

Now, a still youthful 77 and happily remarried since 2009 to playwright and director Bill Bryden, Angela has written her debut novel, Josephine: An Open Book, about a young actress facing challenges in life and love in the 1960s.

While it is fiction, not a memoir, Angela has drawn on her own experiences and Josephine is her real middle name.

Some of the famous people she encountered such as Roger Moore, Michael Caine and Elizabeth Taylor make cameo appearances.

But it is no fluffy showbiz potboiler.

With her husband Kenneth at their real wedding in 1968 (Image: Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)

By turns it is serious, dramatic and, at times, shocking.

The heroine, years before #MeToo, endures lewd casting-couch approaches and even rape, an unhappy marriage and serious illness. There is a central love affair with an older married man, Steve, whom a somewhat cagey Angela surprisingly insists is not based on her “Kenny”.

As for sexual harassment, Angela says she encountered it but was able to fend it off.

“It happened to me but, you know, it is all manageable. You could deal with it yourself. Even at that time, at a young age. But it was happening all over the place in the 60s and 70s.”

Angela memorably starred in Carry On Cowboy as Annie Oakley (1965), Carry On Screaming! (1966), Carry On Follow That Camel (1967) and Carry On Up The Khyber (1968).

They bring back fond memories.

“I loved every minute,” she enthuses.

“It was wonderful – such a happy time. I was working with complete professionals and it was full of humour. We laughed all day long – you came home aching and exhausted because you were laughing so much. They were films of their time. But they are still enjoyed.”

At the marriage of friends Roger and Luisa Moore in 1969 (Image: Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)

Of her Carry On co-stars she was closest to Jim Dale – with whom she still keeps in touch – and the late Joan Sims. 

“A wonderful actress and a lovely person. She did both drama and comedy brilliantly. She was very talented but under-appreciated as an actress.”

Angela, who began acting at 14, met many major stars along the way, including Eiizabeth Taylor.

“She was stunningly beautiful and very friendly, very approachable,” she recalls. Sir Roger Moore was not only a colleague but a close friend.

“I worked with Roger on stage and then he became a family friend. He was the best man at my wedding to Kenny and my husband was his best man at his wedding to [third ex-wife] Luisa. We were family. He was just completely charming.”

She also worked with Sir Michael Caine on TV police drama Dixon Of Dock Green before he found stardom in the film Zulu.

“There’s something I’ll tell you that says a lot about him,” she relates.

“We came home on the bus together and I went to pay my fare and he said, ‘How much are you getting paid for this job?’ So I said, ‘£12’. He said, ‘Well, I’m getting £15, so put your purse away. I’m paying your fare’. Isn’t that sweet? He is very kind and a complete professional.”

Angela in a movie love scene with husband Kenneth More in The Comedy Man (Image: George Konig/REX/Shutterstock)

While Kenneth More adored his young wife and they were “ecstatically in love”, she now admits there was a controlling aspect to their relationship.

The older, established star wasn’t keen on his beautiful young wife’s career overshadowing his own.

Sadly, the family she longed for that might have compensated never arrived after she suffered a miscarriage in 1969.

Her second marriage, to Bryden – her contemporary at 76 – is more of a modern, equal partnership.

Angela Douglas and Kenneth Williams in Carryon On the Khyber, 1968 (Image: AF archive / Alamy Stock Photo)

“He’s Scottish, he’s interesting, he’s caring, he’s very funny and I’m very lucky. With my first husband I was emotionally lonely but with Bill I’m not.”

She is at first reluctant to expand but suddenly adds: “The Carry On films. It’s the only thing I’m remembered for! And that’s OK. I didn’t have ambitions and I wasn’t allowed ambitions in my first marriage.

“Part of the deal with Ken was that I wasn’t ambitious and if I was allowed to work, it was secondary to him. It was a condition he made and it was like blackmail. I bought it. His career was more important. I wasn’t encouraged to work.

“No younger woman today would’ve bought that condition but I did. Why? Because I was completely in love with him. He was very controlling of me and also very caring of me. It was a mixture of both.”

SHE insists she doesn’t have regrets that her career played second fiddle.

“The only thing I regret is that my parents lost their daughter. They’d struggled to give me the chance and everything [in her career] and I didn’t consider that then. I’m considering it now. It’s a bit late.”

But there were compensations.

“I saw the world with him. I travelled, I had a beautiful home. There are always pluses and minuses in life and you have to make your decision. If you really, really love someone, you want to make them happy, to be what they want you to be. It would be completely different nowadays, I’m sure, for a young woman. The 1960s were not liberated – well not for me.”

LOVE STORY: With ‘funny”caring’ second husband Scots writer Bill Bryden at her recent book launch (Image: Tim Clarke/ Daily Express)

The Carry On films and other acting parts were allowed, she says, only when it fitted in with Kenny’s schedule.

“I remember, there was a theatre producer called Binkie Beaumont. We were all having supper and he said, ‘Kenny, I want Angela for a play. I need to check with you and see if it is all right with you’.

“And I just sat there. That happened more than once.

“But I didn’t have any mixed messages. Kenny made it very clear, right from the off, that he wasn’t entertaining the idea of living with a [successful] actress. I’m not sure he had that much respect for that profession.”

But she is philosophical. “I have survived,” she says. “You might not be talking to me if I hadn’t married Ken, if I hadn’t done the Carry On films, if I hadn’t written a few books. Do you know what I mean? I have survived.”

She is “proud” of her novel and hopes to write more and also return to acting “if anyone remembers me or wants me”.

She still uses her first married name. “I’m still Angela More. I won’t change that – I’m ‘A More’ [as in ‘amour’, the French word for love]. Why would I want to change something as lovely as that?” 

Josephine: An Open Book is published by Candy Jar Books at £15.99

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/carry-on-films-angela-douglas-loved-every-minute-on-comedy-classics/feed/ 0 The Kominsky Method: Michael Douglas Netflix Comedy Gets Premiere Date https://briefnews.eu/the-kominsky-method-michael-douglas-netflix-comedy-gets-premiere-date/ https://briefnews.eu/the-kominsky-method-michael-douglas-netflix-comedy-gets-premiere-date/#respond Mon, 30 Jul 2018 07:42:43 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-kominsky-method-michael-douglas-netflix-comedy-gets-premiere-date/ Netflix will soon reveal The Kominsky Method. The single-camera comedy series from sitcom titan Chuck Lorre (The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men) and starring Academy Award winners Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin will be released on Friday, Nov. 16. The announcement was first made on Twitter, along with the streaming service’s portion of the Television Critics Association summer press tour on Sunday.

The first season, which consists of eight episodes, centers on once-famous actor Sandy Kominsky (Douglas) and his longtime friend/agent Norman Newlander (Arkin). Together, they attempt to navigate the youth and beauty-obsessed culture of Los Angeles in their later years of life. Scroll down for additional first-look photos:

As previously announced, Nancy Travis (Last Man Standing) and Sarah Baker (Young Sheldon) co-star. Lisa Edelstein (House), Emily Osment (Young & Hungry), Susan Sullivan (Dharma & Greg), Graham Rogers (Atypical), Ashleigh LaThrop (Sirens), Melissa Tang (Mom), Casey Brown (Chance) and Jenna Lyng Adams round out the recurring cast.

The Kominsky Method marks Lorre’s second series with Netflix, following the one-and-done Kathy Bates pot comedy Disjointed. He directed the first episode, and serves as an executive producer alongside Douglas, Al Higgins (Mike & Molly) and David Javerbaum (The Daily Show With Jon Stewart).

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When Doctor Who premiered in 1963, the BBC probably didn’t anticipate it becoming a worldwide phenomenon and the longest-running science-fiction show in history. If they did, the network would have likely not purged their archives of Doctor Who episodes in the ’70s, resulting in many serials from the First and Second Doctor’s runs to become lost to oblivion.

By the time Tom Baker stepped into his iconic colorful scarf as the Fourth Doctor, this junking policy had been put to a stop. But that didn’t prevent his memorable run as the Doctor from being plagued by its own archiving or production problems. Namely, a famous unfinished 1979 episode written by sci-fi stalwart Douglas Adams of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fame, “Shada.” Adams would only write two other episodes for Doctor Who, but “Shada” was always the “what could’ve been?” after filming for the episode was interrupted by an engineering strike. But 38 years later, “Shada” will finally be finished, with none other than Tom Baker himself reprising his role as the most famous Doctor.

“Shada” was meant to be the final episode of Doctor Who‘s 17th season, follows the Doctor as he faces off against a devious alien scientist who is attempting to locate a hidden Time Lord prison planet named Shada. The unfinished episode was eventually told in full as a radio play, but fans were eager to see the rest of the episode. Unfortunately, strikes wracked Britain for months and the episode was put on the backburner, with some of the existing footage later used in the Doctor Who 20th anniversary special.

But thanks to BBC Worldwide, fans can finally see how the story of “Shada” ends, with Tom Baker back at the wheels of the TARDIS, no less. He and the rest of the original episode cast are returning to voice their characters in animated form, including Lalla Ward as Romana II, one of his most popular companions.

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“’Shada’ was one of my favorite ‘Doctor Who’ stories. I have many fond memories of shooting the location scenes in Cambridge, and it was disappointing not to finish the story in studio. I’m so glad that BBC Worldwide [has] found a way to bring fans a complete visual version,” Baker said with the release of the trailer, which combines the old footage with the new animation by Charles Norton.

If the new soundtrack sounds reassuringly familiar, it’s because composer Mark Ayers tried his best to imitate the sounds of the Tom Baker run using the original equipment of the 1970s. Though the trailer only gives a brief glimpse of the episode, which will be released as a digital download and DVD special, it perfectly captures the whimsy of a typical Tom Baker episode, with a modern, action-packed twist.

It’s exciting to see BBC give makeovers to lost or unfinished episodes of Doctor Who, which still unfortunately boasts huge gaps in the runs of the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton). While the late Troughton and his bowl cut unfortunately can’t reprise his role for an animated episode, if BBC could adapt some of the Second Doctor’s serials, that would be simply fantastic.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/unfinished-doctor-who-episode-by-douglas-adams-will-finally-be-completed-38-years-later/feed/ 0 Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas shares abuse allegations after being accused of ‘victim shaming’ her teammates https://briefnews.eu/olympic-gymnast-gabby-douglas-shares-abuse-allegations-after-being-accused-of-victim-shaming-her-teammates/ https://briefnews.eu/olympic-gymnast-gabby-douglas-shares-abuse-allegations-after-being-accused-of-victim-shaming-her-teammates/#respond Wed, 22 Nov 2017 09:19:10 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/olympic-gymnast-gabby-douglas-shares-abuse-allegations-after-being-accused-of-victim-shaming-her-teammates/ gabby douglasLaurence Griffiths/Getty Images

  • On Tuesday, Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas accused former team doctor Larry Nassar of sexual abuse.
  • The two-time gold medalist wrote in an Instagram post that she didn’t share her stories sooner because she was “conditioned to stay silent.”
  • Douglas’ allegations come several days after she was accused of victim-shaming her former teammates Aly Raisman, who has also accused Nassar of alleged abuse.  

Over the weekend, Gabby Douglas tweeted a message that appeared to criticize her former teammate Aly Raisman. The two-time gold medalist was dragged through the mud on Twitter, with many accusing her of victim-shaming Raisman and others who’ve come forward with abuse allegations against former team doctor, Larry Nassar. Now, Douglas has not only released an apology, but alleged that Nassar abused her as well. 

In an Instagram post shared Tuesday, Douglas apologized for her Tweet and shared her story of alleged abuse at the hands of Nassar. She explained that the day before she sent her tweet, she was at an event with girls who look up to her as a role model. Douglas wrote:

I didn’t view my comments as victim shaming because I know that no matter what you wear, it NEVER gives anyone the right to harass or abuse you. It would be like saying that because of the leotards we wore, it was our fault that we were abused by Larry Nassar. I didn’t publicly share my experiences as well as many other things because for years we were conditioned to stay silent and honestly some things were extremely painful. I wholeheartedly support my teammates for coming forward with what happened to them. 

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Douglas’ post makes her the third member of the 2012 “Fierce Five” gymnastics team to come forward with allegations against Nassar. McKayla Maroney came forward in early October as part of the #MeToo social media campaign. Raisman made allegations against Nassar earlier this month. Nassar is currently facing criminal charges that he molested other gymnasts, along with counts of possessing child pornography. He has denied the charges.

Though Maroney has been silent since coming forward, even deleting her social media accounts, Raisman has continued to criticize both Nassar and USA Gymnastics, which she says went to great lengths to protect the doctor over young female members of the team. 

“I kept reaching out saying I wanted to meet with [the private investigator] again, because I had time to process it, I realized it was really bad,” Raisman said in an interview with “Today.” “I was basically told to keep it quiet, and that they were handling it.”

Raisman has been equally vocal on Twitter, writing on Saturday that she would not “put up with any woman or girl being shamed for wanting to wear a skirt, dress, etc.”

“STOP VICTIM SHAMING,” Raisman wrote. “It is because of you that so many survivors live in fear.”

Douglas responded in a now deleted tweet that said, “It is our responsibility as women to dress modestly and be classy. Dressing in a provocative/sexual way entices the wrong crowd.”

Many took Douglas’ message as a form of victim-shaming and a slap in the face to her former teammate, including Simone Biles, who competed with both women on the 2016 Olympic women’s gymnastics team. 

“Shocks me that I’m seeing this but it doesn’t surprise me,” Biles wrote. “Honestly seeing this brings me to tears bc as your teammate I expected more from you & to support her.”

You can read Douglas’ full Instagram post below:

First, I want to reiterate my apology for responding the way that I did to a comment that one of my teammates posted. I know some of you may take what I’m about to say as insincere, but I still want to provide context.

The day before I commented, I was at an event where hundreds of children and young adults came to spend an evening with me. It’s very humbling when many people look up to you as an example. I take my job as a role model very seriously and I always want to do my best to represent all the best qualities that a role model should embody. I admit there are times that I fall short.

I didn’t view my comments as victim shaming because I know that no matter what you wear, it NEVER gives anyone the right to harass or abuse you. It would be like saying that because of the leotards we wore, it was our fault that we were abused by Larry Nassar. I didn’t publicly share my experiences as well as many other things because for years we were conditioned to stay silent and honestly some things were extremely painful. I wholeheartedly support my teammates for coming forward with what happened to them. 

I understand that many of you didn’t know what I was dealing with, but it is important to me that you at least know this. I do not advocate victim shaming /blaming in any way, shape, or form! I will also never support attacking or bullying anyone on social media or anywhere else.

Please forgive me for not being more responsible with how I handled the situation. To every other individual that commented to or about me hatefully, I apologize that I let you down too. I will never stop promoting unity, positivity, strength, being courageous, and doing good instead of evil. I have learned from this and I’m determined to be even better

All my love,

Gabby

If you are a victim of sexual assault, you can visit RAINN or call its hotline at 1-800-656-4673 to receive confidential support from a trained staff member.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/olympic-gymnast-gabby-douglas-shares-abuse-allegations-after-being-accused-of-victim-shaming-her-teammates/feed/ 0 Olympic medalist Gabby Douglas tells women to ‘dress modestly’ in response to a former teammate’s sexual-assault allegation https://briefnews.eu/olympic-medalist-gabby-douglas-tells-women-to-dress-modestly-in-response-to-a-former-teammates-sexual-assault-allegation/ https://briefnews.eu/olympic-medalist-gabby-douglas-tells-women-to-dress-modestly-in-response-to-a-former-teammates-sexual-assault-allegation/#respond Sat, 18 Nov 2017 02:53:07 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/olympic-medalist-gabby-douglas-tells-women-to-dress-modestly-in-response-to-a-former-teammates-sexual-assault-allegation/ Gabby DouglassEzra Shaw/Getty

  • Gymnast Gabby Douglas is under fire for appearing to be critical of Olympic teammate Aly Raisman who said she was a victim of sexual assault.
  • Douglas pointed out one of Raisman’s tweets, in which Raisman advocated for speaking up against sexual abuse.
  • Douglas’ comments lit up social media on Friday night, as some interpreted her comments as blaming Raisman for her own alleged assault.

Multi-Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas lit up social media on Friday night after she tweeted what some interpreted as criticism toward her Olympic teammate, Aly Raisman, who came forward last week to accuse a USA Gymnastics team doctor of sexual assault.

Douglas’ now-deleted tweet pointed to Raisman’s criticism of people who shame victims of sexual assault: “It is our responsibility as women to dress modestly and be classy,” Douglas said. “Dressing in a provocative/sexual way entices the wrong crowd.”

Raisman’s original tweet sounded off on what she said were the dangers of victim-shaming people who have endured sexual abuse. The Olympic gymnast said she would not “put up with any woman or girl being shamed for wanting to wear a skirt, dress, etc.”

“STOP VICTIM SHAMING,” Raisman’s note said. “It is because of you that so many survivors live in fear.”

Douglas’ remarks were swiftly criticized on social media. Her name became one of the top trending topics on Twitter Friday evening.

Douglas later tweeted a clarification, saying that she “didn’t correctly word” her previous comments.

“I am deeply sorry for coming off like I don’t stand alongside my teammates,” she tweeted. “Regardless of what you wear, abuse under any circumstance is never acceptable. I am WITH you. #metoo.”

However, Douglas’ original tweet was noticed by teammate Simone Biles: “Shocks me that I’m seeing this but it doesn’t surprise me,” Biles tweeted in response to a screenshot of Douglas’ tweet. “Honestly seeing this brings me to tears bc as your teammate I expected more from you & to support her. I support you Aly & all the other women out there! STAY STRONG.”

During an interview on “60 Minutes” last week, Raisman alleged that Dr. Larry Nassar, the team’s doctor, sexually abused her. Her claim follows teammate McKayla Maroney’s accusation against Nassar last month, in which Maroney alleged Nassar had molested her since she was 13.

Nassar plead guilty to possession of child pornography and is in jail in Michigan, awaiting sentencing, the Associated Press reported last week.

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In the early 1960s, New York City became the national hub for independent filmmaking of all types. With the gradual relaxing of local and national censorship and obscenity laws, many directors turned their lenses towards the growing demand for sexuality-themed films. For the next 20-some years, a diverse group of filmmakers seized the opportunity to explore taboo subjects, and collectively produced thousands of shorts and features in a wide range of styles.

Iowa-born Jerry Douglas arrived in New York to start a career in theater. He developed a reputation for directing and producing nude off-Broadway plays, and was approached about developing his first hardcore porn film not long after the release of Wakefield Poole’s landmark 1971 movie Boys in the Sand.

Douglas’ films stood out for their attention to story, complex themes, and fearlessness in tackling gay sexual subculture in movies like The Back Row. His Both Ways looks at deeper, intimate relationships, exploring the (explicit) bond between a married man in the suburbs and his young male lover, and all the complicated emotions that ensue — something often whispered about closeted men during the time, but never openly. Douglas will present the film in person at the Quad on Sunday, August 27.

Ahead of the Both Ways screening, Flavorwire spoke to Douglas about his experience in the industry working with other luminaries like Metzger (Douglas wrote the screenplay for Metzger’s 1974 film Score, based on Douglas’ off-Broadway play), editing the essential gay magazine Manshots, and the state of gay porn today.

Flavorwire: Your background is in theater and screenwriting. Were you a young cinephile, too?

Jerry Douglas: Very much so. My earliest memory of life is my mother carrying me into a movie theater. I can remember this vividly — that I was being held in her arms and looking up at the ceiling, and it was mirrored. I remember how impressed I was by the mirrored ceiling. It was not the last one I ever saw, but it was the first.

Do you have any idea what movie?

It might have been The Forest Rangers, with Fred MacMurray and Paulette Goddard, but I’m not sure about that.

What did you initially set out to accomplish with your career — theater, writing, or film?

I was a drama major during college. I knew I couldn’t act.

How long did you work in theater?

After college, I went to Yale Drama School. I came to New York and did a variety of jobs connected to the theater. I worked for a theatrical agent. I staged managed an off-Broadway show. Lots of things like that. Eventually, I began directing.

Was “Score” your first experience working on a film set?

Radley [Metzger] bought the rights to one of my plays, Score. I had it in my contract that I got to be on the set, because I was very anxious to learn something about film directing. All my experience had been with theatrical directing. Radley was just wonderful to me — in many, many ways. I just loved Radley. We remained friends ever since then. He was terribly generous to me, I think not totally for altruistic reasons, but because he was always so terribly interested in the camera and the technical aspects of filmmaking. His strongest suit was not actors. About the third day of the shoot he said, ‘You take care of the actors, I’ll take care of everything else.’ Because I directed the play, and two of the people in the cast had been in the play at one time or another, I knew what I was looking for. It worked out very well.

What did you learn about filmmaking from Radley?

My favorite anecdote is from the very first day of the shoot. He came up to me and said, ‘You wanna learn something, huh? Alright, here’s your first lesson. Always put something in the foreground of the shot. It gives it depth. Got it?’ And he walked away.

That’s great.

Radley was a great man. I adored him.

I always wondered if you directed the sex scenes in “Score” with Casey Donovan and Gerald Grant.

I was there, but, no, Radley directed the whole film. I just coached actors instead of him having to rehearse them. Radley was straight, I am gay. I was definitely on the set. Now and then I would make a suggestion about the male-male scenes in the film. The compositions were all Radley. That was his forte, his specialty.

What do you remember about working on your first film, “The Back Row?”

I directed a number of plays that involved nudity. My partner on Back Row, and subsequently on Both Ways, was straight. He was the husband of a woman whom I worked with many times when I was at Yale. I partially put myself put myself through school directing community theater productions. Sam came to me one day and said, ‘Let’s make a movie.’ I said, ‘Fine — but it’ll have to be a gay movie.’ He said, ‘I don’t care.’ It was a baptism by fire. I didn’t know a damn thing about making a film, but boy did I seem to have a knack for it. I had a great enthusiasm. It went together very nicely.

Back Row followed Boys in the Sand [Wakefield Poole’s 1971 film] into the 55th Street Playhouse. It had a longer run there than Boys in the Sand did, but because it wasn’t the first, as Wakefield’s was, it never had the publicity of being a landmark film that Boys in the Sand was. I had worked with Cal [Casey Donovan] on stage many times, and he was just wonderful.

When I was the editor of Manshots magazine, he did a column for me every month for two years before he died. Again, I was very much a neophyte and learning. Cal had done several films by then. I still have all my outtakes. I have a wonderful outtake where he’s giving head to another actor who is standing, and he’s kneeling. Right in the middle of it, he stops, and the guy puts his hand on Cal’s face — an automatic gesture. Cal lifts the hand off and goes right back to sucking. It’s one of my treasured outtakes.

What first drew you to Cal, apart from his obvious beauty?

He was a beautiful man. He had a great gift for making every person he spoke to think that he was the most important person Cal ever knew. I fell for that, I bought it; fair enough, because we became good friends and remained good friends until he died. I saw him a week before he died. He was getting ready to go home and die in Florida. He brought over his last column for the magazine and said, ‘This is it, baby. I’m going home to die.’ I don’t know if you’ve ever seen it or read it, but there’s a lovely biography of Cal out [Boy in the Sand: Casey Donovan, All-American Sex Star]. I wrote the introduction to it. In it, I say that I worked with him more than anyone else. I was a good social friend with him. We went a lot of places together. My husband is a very good cook. Cal would often come over for dinner. We were really, really close friends, I like to think. But — and this is what I said in the introduction — I never knew him. Nobody knew him. He was a chameleon.

You worked during both the pre-condom era and the ‘80s and ‘90s AIDS crisis. What was the tone like on set when making those movies, knowing all this horrible stuff was going on?

It was the safest place most of these guys ever had sex. At the beginning, nobody believed condoms were any good. We had to use them on the set for PR reasons.

I couldn’t remember if your films used condoms…

Absolutely, every single one of my films, except the first three back in the ‘70s. I said I would never do a film without condoms until somebody produced a vaccine that was foolproof. Of course, I left the industry before that happened. It was very hard to get used to, because I had been in a monogamous relationship — we’re about to celebrate our 38th anniversary next week — I didn’t have a great deal of experience with condoms. Most of [the actors] did, and it was no big deal. I think I either worked condoms into the plot or the characterizations. It was a running joke at the time about the ‘condom fairy.’ One minute they wouldn’t have on a condom, but the next minute they would. I very much got around that. At the beginning I tried very hard to use condoms that didn’t have rims around the top of them so they were almost invisible. When I couldn’t get them anymore, I said fuck it and went ahead and used them. By then, everyone was accustomed to them.

Your adult films are known for their compelling stories. Did gay audiences want more of that or were they only interested in the sex?

You tell me. I made 16 films, and half of them won Best Picture.

My dear friend Stan Ward, who wrote for the Philadelphia Gay News, said: ‘Sex in context is better than sex not in context.’ I had a background in it. I knew how to direct a play. Very early on I realized something that was like a light bolt from the blue. I realized that a porn film was like a musical comedy. You shoot your musical numbers the same way you shoot your sex scenes. So, it was duets and group scenes. You write a libretto to sew them together. That’s exactly the way all my films are structured. I like to think each one was different, and you don’t see the structure. That’s the secret of a good playwright.

I worked on a great variety of different stories. They came from the strangest places. A dear friend of mine lived in San Francisco with his wife and three children — and across the bridge in Oakland, his lover. He took his lover to his 10th or 20th anniversary reunion at Princeton, and he told me that he had the guts to dance with Ron at the reunion. That became [the 1999 film] Dream Team.

I made three films in the early ‘70s. I just had so much trouble with theater owners and with the mafia, that I said, ‘Fuck it.’ I walked away for 10, 12 years. In the meantime I had spent a great deal of time in journalism. As the editor of Manshots magazine, I was in constant contact with people in the adult industry, one of whom was Dirk Yates, who ran All Worlds Video. For months, every time I talked to him long-distance, he’d say, ‘Jerry, when are you going to make a movie for me?’ I said, ‘I haven’t made a movie in 10 years. I’m not going to ever do it again. I’ve been there, done that.’ This went on for about a year.

One day — I don’t know why the hell I was in such a piss-elegant mood — I said, ‘Alright, I’ll make a movie for you — but you have to give me a piece of the action. You have to give me royalties.’ This was unheard of in the porn industry. I thought this would kill it. I said, ‘You must give me final cut. You don’t get it, I do.’ Again, never before done in the porn industry. And third, I said, ‘I want Tim Lowe for the lead.’ Tim Lowe was the biggest porn star around at that time. I was sure that would kill it. He hung up. After a few days he called back and said, ‘Hi! Time Lowe’s here and wants to talk to you.’ That’s how Fratrimony was made.

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In what would mark his first regular TV gig in more than four decades, Oscar and Emmy winner Michael Douglas is eyeing a starring role in a Netflix comedy series from sitcom titan Chuck Lorre.

According to Deadline, the streamer is close to finalizing a 10-episode order for The Kominsky Method, a half-hour, single camera comedy penned by Lorre that centers on Sandy Kominsky (Douglas), an actor who years ago had a brief fling with success and is now a revered Hollywood acting coach. Alan Arkin would co-star as his long-suffering agent and friend, Norman.

Douglas cut his acting teeth in the ABC crime drama The Streets of San Francisco, which ran from 1972 and 1977 and also starred Karl Malden. Since then, Douglas’ TV gigs have been few and far between. He earned an Emmy for playing Liberace in HBO’s 2013 pic Behind the Candelabra.

This is Lorre’s second project with Netflix, joining the Kathy Bates-fronted pot comedy Disjointed, which drops Aug. 25.

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There is no mistaking the love as Kirk Douglas gazes at Anne

He pushes his wheeled walker before him like a chariot, head held high, steering across the living room’s hardwood floor to the champagne-coloured heavy silk couch in his Beverly Hills mansion, easing himself into the oversized plumped-up sofa.

His tanned face is slack with a century of weathering.

His speech is slow, slurred by the vestiges of a stroke two decades ago.

The star of Spartacus, The Bad And The Beautiful and Lust For Life feels every one of his 100 years.

Yet in his sparkling blue eyes there is no mistaking the love as Kirk Douglas gazes at Anne, his wife of 62 years. “I owe her so much,” says Kirk, who turned 100 in December.

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“I wouldn’t be where I am today without her. It will be 63 years next month. My god, how did it happen?”

Anne smiles: “You say ‘yes, darling’ a lot. We have a great relationship and have trusted each other, rightly or wrongly,” she says with a mischievous grin, taking his hand.

“We’re there for each other with love and enormous friendship.”

The room is elegantly stocked with paintings, sculptures and flowers but it was in a forgotten corner of a cupboard that Anne found the sweetest remembrance of their romance: a treasure trove of love letters dating back to 1953.

Those billet-doux and other intimate notes have been compiled into a touching and at times brutally honest new book, Kirk And Anne, offering an insight into one of Hollywood’s longest marriages.

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Kirk and Anne have one of Hollywood’s longest marriages

“I had no idea she had kept them all these years,” says Kirk.

“I said, ‘We have to make this into a book.’”

But their correspondence also shows that the course of their true love did not always run smooth.

Recently divorced from Diana Dill, with whom he had sons Michael and Joel, Kirk was filming in Paris in 1953 when he hired German-born Anne Buydens as his trilingual personal secretary.

They soon began an affair even though he was seriously romancing Italian screen siren Pier Angeli.

“Anne was a sophisticated woman, unlike my virginal Pier Angeli, who took her mother on all our dates,” Kirk recalls.

He grew closer to Anne but: “I warned her not to expect a commitment. I was secretly engaged to Pier Angeli. I cannot believe how insensitive I was. I asked Anne to come to Bulgari and help me choose an engagement ring for Pier. She did it without a murmur but she must have been seething inside.”

Anne admits: “This was a particularly painful period for me… Kirk never tried to hide his dalliances from me.”

Confesses Kirk: “I was very active and saw lots of women.”

But Anne got her revenge.

“I threw him a surprise birthday party in his Paris apartment and invited every woman that he had had an affair with or took out, all standing in a long line when he arrived,” she laughs.

“Kirk opened the door, looked at the line-up and, smiling, whispered to me, ‘You b****!’”

Kirk proposed to Angeli in Paris on her 21st birthday but when she said yes Kirk lost all interest.

“Over dinner, knowing there were no obstacles to a night of passion, I fell out of love with her. I was bored with the conversation. Also there was no chemistry between us when we kissed as the clock struck midnight. I broke off our engagement.”

Liberated, he wrote dozens of passionate notes to Anne from distant film locations.

From Acapulco he wrote: “How I wish you were here. The bed next to mine is empty – and I wish you were in it.”

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Kirk hired Anne as a personal secretary in 1953

They exchanged letters in fluent French, German and English.

He called her “Darling” and “Stolz,” meaning “haughty”. She called him “Mein Liebling,” “Mon Cheri” and “Mon Amour”.

Yet still Kirk saw other women despite his letters to Anne: “I have been dating very little… Come to me, darling. My heart is empty and I need you near.

”After a year of their affair Anne gave Kirk an ultimatum, threatening to leave for ever: “I allowed you during this time to push me around emotionally and, if I don’t want to get hurt for good, I have to stop you from starting it again.”

Days later Kirk found Anne packing her bags. “That’s when it hit me,” he says.

“I would be lost without her. If she got on that plane she would never give me another chance. Suddenly, blessed with clarity, I asked Anne to marry me.”

They planned a whirlwind Las Vegas marriage that weekend.

“It wasn’t a romantic wedding but it was legal,” he says.

Yet because of visa delays Anne had to remain apart from Kirk for two months after their wedding, inspiring some emotional missives.

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In one cable Kirk wrote of his frustration as their separation dragged on: “Have all the clocks in the world stopped running, is the earth no longer revolving on its axis, let’s give it a shove, Kirk.”

In another letter he wrote: “I miss you so much my darling. And I need you so much. I want our marriage to be a very happy, successful one.”

In Germany filming Stanley Kubrick’s The Paths Of Glory, Kirk wrote at 2.30am: “How incomplete I am without my family. How can any man live alone?”

Kirk waves a gnarled finger at me across the coffee table littered with orchids.

“Two things happened to make her my partner for life,” he says.

“She was suspicious of my business partner and it turned out he had taken all my money. I was broke but would never have known without Anne. Then she stopped me getting on a private plane to New York with Elizabeth Taylor’s husband, producer Mike Todd. Anne insisted, ‘I don’t want you on that plane.’ “She told me to fly commercial – and Todd’s plane crashed, killing everyone aboard. She saved my life. Now I always trust her intuition.”

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The couple had sons Peter and Eric

On July 19, 1958 he wrote: “How often I think that if I weren’t married to you I’d be in awful shape. I’d be a bum and a drunkard without you. And the awful thing is I keep needing you more and more as I get older!”

Kirk smiles: “That’s still true.”

The couple, who had sons Peter and Eric together, the latter dying of an overdose aged 46, still make a handsome pair: Kirk in a baby blue sweater and black trousers, Anne in beige trousers and matching cardigan over a black jersey.

Yet they sit in a living room with no movie posters or awards from his 90 films over 60 years in Hollywood.

“It no longer gives me pleasure to look at the signed posters of my movies hanging there,” he says.

“I’ve outlived many of the friends I worked with and I miss them.”

After his massive stroke in 1996 Kirk admits contemplating suicide: “Feeling so sorry for myself I pulled out the gun I had saved from Gun- fight At The OK Corral to kill myself.”

But reviewing his life he realised: “I had been lucky – even with my stroke… Thank god for Anne’s tough love or I would have wallowed forever in self-pity.”

Their love is undiminished today, says Kirk: “We have been married more than 62 years and my unabated admiration and need for this remarkable woman still astounds me.”

Anne agrees: “This is the story of an unending love affair.”

“Love you,” says Kirk, smiling. “Love you more,” Anne replies, getting the final word.

To pre-order Kirk And Anne: Letters Of Love, Laughter And A Lifetime In Hollywood by Kirk and Anne Douglas (published by Running Press on May 25, £16.99) please call the Express Bookshop with your card details on 01872 562310, or send a cheque or postal order made payable to The Express Bookshop to: Kirk & Anne Offer, PO Box 200, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 4WJ or visit 

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