Show lotting nv InIWI wiul y -i a— in WalaaP You know that my is ho -- EWON AN OSCAR Bom Sept 25 1944 in Now Brunswick NJ Mamed to Diandra Lukep 1977-9- 7 one son Cameron 24 married to Catherine Zeta-Jonsince 2000 one son Dylan 2 as Best Actor for his memorably etched portrait of ’80s Wall Street greed as the seductively charming but amoral Gor- king He was Elvis Presley in another life Before Ms trip to es don Gekko But now actor and producer Michael Douglas was on the horn from Europe telling me about his latIncludes est film It Runs in the Family The Street of San Francisco due to open April 25 1972-7- 6 And “family” is the operative word This is the first time Mi- Wales Douglas was in wart om Sierra Leone on a UN assignment as UevUnc ar of He’d also been HDC Include Mam chael and his dad Kirk ever at 6 anu 1970 worked together on a flick It Coma 1978 Tha China also brings together his mother Syndrome S79 actress Diana Douglas Danid Running 1979 and his son CamRomancing tha Stona 1984 eron in a well-sptale ofa dysTha Jewel of tha Nila 1985 functional New York family When we spoke Douglas and Fatal Attraction his gorgeous wife Catherine 1987 Wall Zeta-Jon— fresh off her triStreet 1987 Black Rain in the film Chicago and 1989 Tha War umph of tha Rotat expecting their second child— 1989 Baaic visiting her extended fam- Inttinct 1992 Dkckwura ily in Swansea Wales 1994 Tha Besides getting the whole American ' President Douglas family off the unem1995 Tha ployment roles I wisecracked Gama 1997 Wonder Boys what suggested this new motfe?- 2000 Traffic ‘My father and I had been talk- 2000 Don’t for years about doing a projSay a Word ing 2001 t Am ect together” said Douglas “My in tha Family 2003 mother and Kirk have been divorced for 50 years but even af-un es aoat half of ma is on tha right ialaiMl Tha Walah are wonderful people Catharine apeakaaoma Welsh Walea ia famed for its choirs Had ha heard them performP -Yea Michael said --In Wales they all sing Catherine’s dad is the local karaoke there to make a documentary aboutthe tragedy of cNId ter they remarried they and their spouses got along so we got Diana involved Then we thought about Cameron as the son He’d never acted so he studied for three months and then he read for us Dad and I were the ner-we-re vous ones We were wonied The kid was terrific! At 24 1 never could have acted with my dad I would have been overwhelmed" Douglas sketched for me the key points of his career on both sides of the camera: "Cuckoo 's Nest and China Syndrome ’ helped define me as a person’ he said “and gave me success as a producer As ah actor Fatal HkXo Ify Lorsnt A Tolbrrlfor PARADE gmnmu by Hein Snbtrlson for sn linx by Vincent Batcher skin and blaer by Hufo Boa pdttati uttapirnBlikls wnM It tnu It tafatf-w-m KH utter litn aii mi Cumt It Mtu Aprl 25 NYfcrkstiaemtmcycem: aokHera--Theaekid- s war a story crying out to Attraction and Wall Street-b- ack be told” ha I asked to back — gave me that said Michael if ha same kind of success” thought he’d be moat about Catherine and Talking her hit movie Chicago Michael for Ms said Tm so proud of her You Academy Award as Wall know acting is like lying: You Street Gekko can get away with sheer theft Gordon -Gekko was a But song and dance —you can’t vary bad guy”' replied fake it you can’t hide” Then he -Yeah” I said he added “When she was -- but charming shooting it 1 stayed home and in a reptilian way” Michael -II agreed: ‘played mom”’ For an actor to For mora play good On MKVIMI villains—now Dough vUt ’ unaw pyadb com and dkk on “In Stop With PMIS4 that! the f s too pajudi suuas |