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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Yikes! Michael Douglas's Kid

That's Cameron Douglas in 2004, DJing at the Betty Ford Klinik, the wryly (and aptly) -named dance club in Hamburg, Germany.

Yes, this is the same son of Michael Douglas arrested last month for distributing meth -- the one whose girlfriend was just caught trying to smuggle him heroin in an electric toothbrush.

You can't quite see it here, but that tattoo on his pectoral reads "Bliss."

In the interests of fairness and equal time, here's a nicer shot from the same era:

This is from the set of It Runs In the Family, the 2003 film that starred Michael, Cameron, and grandpappy Kirk Douglas together. Now you wonder if that project wasn't a kind of intervention-via-film to keep Cameron occupied.

An electric toothbrush! The big lug.

(Photo credit: WENN)

Labels: Betty Ford, Cameron Douglas, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas

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Wednesday, July 01, 2009

So Long, Karl Malden

Malden said he got his celebrated bulbous nose when he broke it a couple of times playing basketball or football, joking that he was "the only actor in Hollywood whose nose qualifies him for handicapped parking."

Actor Karl Malden has died at age 97.

Malden won an Oscar in 1951, as best supporting actor in A Streetcar Named Desire. His heyday was the 1970s, when he starred with Michael Douglas in the hep cop show The Streets of San Francisco and began a lucrative 21-year run as the "Don't leave home without them" pitchman for American Express traveler's checks.

He also did a fine job playing sensible General Omar Bradley (opposite George C. Scott as the not-so-sensible General George Patton) in the Oscar-winning 1972 film Patton.

Here's a taste of Malden's old AmEx routine, followed by a short spoof from late-night host Johnny Carson.