{"id":176964,"date":"2020-02-05T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/05\/r-i-p-issur-danielovitch-demsky\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T00:49:00","slug":"r-i-p-issur-danielovitch-demsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/05\/r-i-p-issur-danielovitch-demsky\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Issur Danielovitch Demsky"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“All children are natural actors, and I’m still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.”<\/i><\/div>\n

Kirk Douglas, the son of a rag man and an iconic actor, has died at 103<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Kirk Douglas, one of the last surviving movie stars from Hollywood\u2019s golden age, whose rugged good looks and muscular intensity made him a commanding presence in celebrated films like \u201cLust for Life,\u201d \u201cSpartacus\u201d and \u201cPaths of Glory,\u201d died on Wednesday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 103. <\/p>\n

His son the actor Michael Douglas announced the death in a statement<\/a> on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n

Mr. Douglas had made a long and difficult recovery from the effects of a severe stroke he suffered in 1996. In 2011, cane in hand, he came onstage at the Academy Awards ceremony<\/a>, good-naturedly flirted with the co-host Anne Hathaway and jokingly stretched out his presentation of the Oscar for best supporting actress.<\/p>\n

By then, and even more so as he approached 100 and largely dropped out of sight, he was one of the last flickering stars in a Hollywood firmament that few in Hollywood\u2019s Kodak Theater on that Oscars evening could have known except through viewings of old movies now called classics. A vast number filling the hall had not even been born when he was at his screen-star peak, the 1950s and \u201960s.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We will not see his like again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“All children are natural actors, and I’m still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.” Kirk Douglas, the son of a rag man and an iconic actor, has died at 103: Kirk Douglas, one of the last surviving movie stars from Hollywood\u2019s golden age, whose rugged good looks and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[497,507,645],"class_list":["post-176964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cinema","tag-obituaries","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}