Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
The elder son of Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill, Douglas received his Bachelor of Arts in Drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His early acting roles included film, stage, and television productions. Douglas first achieved prominence for his performance in the ABC police procedural television series The Streets of San Francisco, for which he received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations.
Yet, as she prepared to appear in California Suite, she realised that training was impossible.Her solution came a few weeks later, as her foot had started to heal, in the form of a workout studio recommended by her ."Oh, my God, it had a huge impact on me!" she exclaimed.She began attending the Gilda Marx studio and dance instructor Leni Cazden blew her away.Later, she realised that she could turn her discovery into a profitable business venture.Video production entrepreneur Stuart Karl approached her, keen to see her replicate her legendary weight-loss moves on tape.Yet there was one problem - Jane hadn't yet heard of a video player."At the time nobody had a VCR.
I didn’t even know what a VCR was," she told Vogue magazine.However Karl was insistent that a home workout video could transform people's lives and earn them a great profit in the process.Then the subject was broached of donating proceeds to a charity she had founded with her then husband Tom Hayden, the Campaign for Economic Democracy.Finally, Jane agreed - and the rest was history."We spent no money on it.
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