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Michael Douglas will be honored with the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s Monte Cristo Award in a ceremony to be held at the Edison Ballroom on Monday, April 16. Tony Award winner Catherine Zeta-Jones, who is Douglas’ wife, will serve as presenter of the award.
Douglas has won Academy Awards for his performance in Wall Street and for producing the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Among his many other screen credits as an actor are Fatal Attraction, Romancing the Stone, Basic Instinct, Falling Down, Disclosure, and The American President. In addition, he received a Theatre World Award for his performance in George Tabori’s Pinkville off-Broadway.
The Monte Cristo Award is given to a prominent theater artist in recognition of a distinguished career exemplifying Eugene O’Neill’s “pioneering spirit, unceasing artistic commitment, and excellence.”
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DOUBLE Oscar-winner Michael Douglas says his “happier” marriage to Catherine Zeta-Jones is good for the couple’s children.
The 67-year-old Hollywood actor was speaking to friend Alec Baldwin in a new series of star interviews Baldwin is doing for US radio station WNYC.
During the frank talk, Douglas spoke of his heartbreak over his son Cameron, 32, who is serving five years in prison for drug dealing and possession.
He said he felt his son’s drug problems might be genetic, adding: “I think there’s a certain genetic part, and I think as far as drug addiction, your peer group plays a huge part.”
Douglas said his experience with his younger children from his second marriage to 42-year-old Welsh star Zeta-Jones, Dylan, 11, and Carys, seven, was very different.
He said this was partly because the world had changed, but also because he was in “a happier marriage”.
Douglas, whose 23-year marriage to first wife Diandra ended in 2000, added: “Secrets play a part in this, in the fact that whether it’s a bad marital relationship that you’re trying to keep from your children and the tension is there and you’re not really kind of up-front.
While January is generally considered a dumping ground for studio leftovers, don’t tell that to Mark Wahlberg. His upcoming thriller “Contraband” is slated for release on January 13, 2012 and it looks like the actor wants to keep starting off your year with a bang, because he’s got another film a year later, pretty much right in the same frame.
The crime noir “Broken City” co-starring Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta-Jones will now land on January 18, 2013 via 20th Century Fox who have acquired the film, reports THR. Set to be directed by Allen Hughes, the dark tale follows Billy Taggart (Wahlberg), an ex-cop thrown off the force after shooting a 16-year-old kid. Eight years on, he’s working as a private detective and is hired by the colorful incumbent in the New York mayoral race to investigate his wife’s infidelity. Taggart, however, digs up much, much more including a shady real estate deal in a story of city corruption that is not unlike “Chinatown.” Crowe will play the mayor, with Zeta-Jones as his philandering wife. But the movie will have some big competition that weekend.
Lionsgate has already slated “The Last Stand” with Arnold Schwarzenegger for that date, so somebody is gonna have to blink as they will be playing right to the same crowd. But there is still plenty of time for release date jostling to happen. This is another high profile flick to go to the typically awful early winter frame. Tom Cruise‘s “One Shot” is another straight genre piece that will be arriving on February 8, 2013. With summer dates now getting more and more competitive, it seems studios are trying to find gaps in the calendar where they can have a bit more breathing room to play as evidenced by the move of “Thor 2” to November 15, 2013. Whether this roll of the dice will pay off remains to be seen—those pesky students are still in school and not looking to occupy their time. But it’s the mark of a trend that is worth keeping an eye on.
[001] November 27th – Riding the Flight of the Hippogriff at Universal Studios Orlando
A super rare photo of a very young Catherine at the 1979 Junior Star Trail Competition.
[004] September 20th – Heading to the Wall Street Money Never Sleeps New York Premiere
[001] November 24th – At Epcot Center in Disney World
Added 9 scans from the issue to our Gallery. Thanks to Elmira.
