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you're like me you can't begin to

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imagine what working in Hollywood for

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more than a half a century is like you

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also wonder how after a devastating and

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debilitating stroke iconic actor Kirk

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Douglas was able to overcome the

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resulting physical and emotional

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challenges and continuous work as an

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actor author and philanthropist one

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thing's for sure he didn't do it alone

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thanks to and his wife and business

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partner Kirk Douglas has been able to

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make movies and make a difference

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I recently sat down with this remarkable

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couple in their los angeles home to

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discuss their personal and professional

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longevity and their lifelong commitment

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to helping others take a look

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so Kirk I don't normally start

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interviews by saying WOW but you deserve

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more than one wow it's amazing your body

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of work the fact that you're ever ready

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bunny you just keep going and going and

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going so what are the characteristics

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about and and you know I feel would be

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doing the interview but a get again

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oh but I look back my I don't know 50

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years of make a movie and then set the

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place and what is it about him you what

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are the characteristics you see in him

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that this down many faces you know a

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cartridge shake in each mark in for a

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trophy and with women

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now which one would you like haha maybe

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you're a woman why don't we start there

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and I think with time he has

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what I would save matured in the best

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way whatever he didn't have before and I

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don't repossession it within him as a

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character he has now when he has a

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little by little it came or more i'm

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with you and that girl think the way we

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me because they're the name myself

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everybody has their favorite Kirk

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Douglas movie so I want to get for the

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two of you a crack at it is there a

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favorite film of yours

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do you have one family grandma did you

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ask you yes i have who movie i have made

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almost than the movie that the mood

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I don't want making the and the movie

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but and the movie like well they're

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always the move problem we will normally

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on them where I always says then for the

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kind of well you know that movie what I

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like the ruling and leg they killed to

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him you know

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Kirk's talked a lot about his youth and

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growing up poor but your childhood

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helped shape who you are too i can you

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talk a little bit about growing up and

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some of the things that you had to go

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through and in your lifetime my

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upbringing was that has full English

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French and Joan and when i came to paris

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during the occupation i was able to make

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someone invited doing subtitles german

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subtitles under French movies and later

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on i continued to do the same thing with

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english subtitles under French movies

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and it brought me into public

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correlation and and I became the

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assistant of the assistant that took the

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sawls to Hollywood this first my dream

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of all rapes I had a very interesting

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and fascinating life i was in America

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taking the star for the Hollywood

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premiere about day a trousseau track

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were we when the director who was a

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friend of mine wanted me for a movie

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with Kirk Douglas as the p LED and i

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said i can do it i am going to Hollywood

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and that was more important than hands

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I think I came back and the direct out

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hardcore decent i want you on the set

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tomorrow and he said let me take you to

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the Lions dead and it was his dressing

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room and he came in and there's the they

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told me all about her so he will be

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perfect for my it because he who booked

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a suite away with it and there was the

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happy there when he gave me this and you

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turn me down

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what was so what do we dream that way

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but then took to the Terrans bball where

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the exit of foot and the thing they were

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the eggs with elephants and friends ex

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is a world opened and when they're for

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the who the n-word love i came i will

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glue and this in the initial shock shado

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and so there's the word the thing that

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makes me we hit now he's heard where

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could do you do there so we will be one

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crew

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yeah the

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and sixty-two years later here we are

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Wow memory so that's the key to a great

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marriage

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yeah follow the elephants yes let me ask

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you all the philanthropic work that you

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do

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is there one that's closest to your

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heart the one that you feel the

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strongest about and I went was current

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thankskilling to the homeless shelter a

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friend of my husband wanted him to come

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alone because Kirk had an experience in

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his huge about thanksgiving and his

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friends said no Sheldon a writer so you

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come with me and tell the men what

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Thanksgiving meant to you and Kirk had

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just reach and he gets anksgiving was

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standing in line to try to get a meal in

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there were running out of meal just 23 /

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before him so that was his story while

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he was making the rods and talk to the

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man I looked where the women

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oh the women are here this within

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bumpits and then that came up white

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sheet and that was for the women all

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other facilities when they say I was

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sure poured

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I called the male who also had be with

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the a homeless now and gave some money

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and I was trying to build a building

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because the facility while the man was

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already going to be replaced with a new

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facility because the Earth's quick had

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made that insecure so I prayed a lot to

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God to see how I can find some money you

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know he will

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good love good with a gun doesn't have

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been the money was to me

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so God three-way you get bored and knows

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God called the morning and so God called

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cook and a couple of his friends and I

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had my and Douglas sent a bill 22 years

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ago for 28 in halts sighs hundred and

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more that come in and out for closing

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showers craving we three movies

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God told you to make three movies right

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now sitting here talking to the two of

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you you can't help but notice the love

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and it's been there for years and years

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and years and I want to talk about 96

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you got the Academy Award thunderous

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applause standing ovation you talked

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about your boys they were out in the

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audience and they were proud but then

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you dedicated it to an and you told her

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you loved her talk to me about that

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moment how important was that to confess

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your love to this woman that you've

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loved all these years in the the the

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good he was there it has never with my

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will is the word

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oh no I have to tell you something there

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a few people know the emotion about one

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he would to receive the actor the vodka

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you have to know that my husband just

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had a stroke he could have the talk is

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taking speech listen and we're

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rehearsing at home

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thank you thank you very much

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then all day long thank you thank you

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thank you very much

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alright he got that out the night of the

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now we all know that he can said thank

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the night of the Oscar you saw or you

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heard it i am proud too proud to be a

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part of hollywood for 50 years but this

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is for my wife and I love you

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the fact that he could say all this

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broke as totally with emotion

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somehow somewhere and we don't know to

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this day he was in a corner on is your

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work and said to himself or heard these

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words studies set we didn't know you

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could do it was it like for you that was

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themselves if you think it was not only

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the emotion that he gave it to me but

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that he could talk and have been been

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there was the thank you both so much

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this has just been an absolute delight

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thank you both thing you will might make

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you thank you

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what it was a pleasure

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coming up how one woman's childhood

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dream turned her into one of fashion's

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biggest names