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.
‘The Comeback Trail’ Trailer: Robert De Niro, Zach Braff Are ’70s Scam Film Producers Making A Film With Tommy Lee Jones
theplaylist.netRobert De Niro, bless his soul, he’s a national treasure and his career go something like this: De Niro does occasional prestige projects with people like Martin Scorsese and then most of the other time these days, he does movies like “Last Vegas” where he teams with other veterans/old-timer actors like Morgan Freeman and Michael Douglas in broad comedies.
That seems to be the gist of “The Comeback Trail,” a ‘70s filmmaking comedy about a scam artist film producer who falls in debt to the mob, and then to get out of hock, finances a badly written Western movie in the hopes of the production killing its aging star.
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