SUBMITTED BY Neville Longbottom

April 23, 2003 — Kirk Douglas talks about finally working with his son, his new movie and his...operator's manual?? Here's a snippet.

"I always wanted to work with Michael," Douglas said. "When I had my stroke, I thought well, I will never work as an actor again because what can an actor do who can't talk? He waits for silent pictures to come back. It was a big thrill to finally do a picture with Michael and to top it off, I never expected to be working with [grandson] Cameron. So, it was a big thrill. We had talked for a few years about doing a movie and a script came up and it wasn't right. Then when he found 'It Runs in the Family' it was before my stroke. Then when I had my stroke, I said, 'Well, I will never work with him.' And Michael tried to encourage me. He said, 'Well, Dad, listen. Just work with your speech therapist. Then we'll make the movie.' That made me mad. I said, 'Michael, why don't you work with my speech therapist and then when you talk the way I talk, we'll do the movie.' We all laughed at that. But, first of all, it's hard to find scripts of any kind that's good. I mean, nobody sets out to make a bad movie and how many bad movies are there? But we were lucky with this picture, I think, because it was something that people can relate to. Every family is dysfunctional and every family has problems. The sons are always doing this or that and fathers like Michael have a lot of problems with Cameron, but I'm the grandfather. I have no problems."

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