NEW YORK \u2014 Oscar winner Michael Douglas will have a memoir out this fall, a \u201craw, sweeping\u201d account he says will illuminate his storied personal and professional lives.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter being asked for many years, I\u2019ve finally decided it\u2019s time to tell my story on my own terms,\u201d Douglas said in a statement released Wednesday through Grand Central Publishing, which has set an Oct. 6 release date.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot the highlight reel, not the version shaped by headlines or box office numbers, but the real one. I\u2019ve lived a life that unfolded in public while being deeply private at the same time, and there\u2019s a difference. This is about where I came from, what I fought against, and what I chose for myself. Fame can blur the truth; this is my attempt to bring it back into focus.\u201d<\/p>\n
Douglas\u2019 book, written in collaboration with Michael Fleming, is currently untitled. Financial terms were not disclosed; Douglas was represented by Shane Salerno of the Story Factory.<\/p>\n
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The 81-year-old actor has been on screen, and in the news, for decades. The son of Hollywood giant Kirk Douglas, he broke through in the 1970s in the hit TV series \u201cThe Streets of San Francisco\u201d and went on to star in such cultural touchstones as \u201cFatal Attraction,\u201d \u201cWall Street\u201d and \u201cBasic Instinct.\u201d He also produced the Oscar-winning \u201cOne Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest,\u201d a project that Douglas\u2019 father had longed to take on himself.<\/p>\n
Michael Douglas has survived cancer and substance abuse and otherwise fought to set himself apart from the elder Douglas. His marriage in November 2000 to fellow actor Catherine Zeta-Jones, more than 20 years his junior, was initially met with doubts that their union would last.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the first time, Douglas is ready to tell the unfiltered story of his life in a raw, career-sweeping memoir that traces his journey from his father, Kirk Douglas\u2019 shadow to his own stardom,\u201d Grand Central\u2019s announcement reads in part.<\/p>\n
Along with baring his demons and disappointments, Douglas \u201cshares his triumphs: his victorious fight against stage-four cancer and his enduring 25-year marriage to Catherine Zeta-Jones, which has proved skeptics wrong and become one of Hollywood\u2019s most enduring love stories,\u201d Grand Central announced.<\/p>\n
Beyond his Academy Awards for acting in \u201cWall Street\u201d and producing \u201cOne Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest,\u201d Douglas has won five Golden Globes, a Primetime Emmy and an AFI Lifetime Achievement Award. Douglas is also a longtime philanthropist and activist who in 1998 was appointed a Messenger of Peace by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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