European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Profile Michael Douglas shows diversity by Bob Thomas associated press. He s a dashing Soldier of Fortune in jewel of the Nile and a hard driving stage director in a chorus line. The Christmas movie season once again demonstrated the versatility of actor producer Michael Douglas who dislikes being categorized. Douglas obviously Learned from his father Kirk that versatility is the key to a Long career. He has been a stage actor to series Star the streets of san Francisco film Star summer tree com producer one flew Over the cuckoo s nest and producer actor the China syndrome. Romancing the Stone which he produced As Well As starred in Cost $12 million and grossed $125 million. It made Douglas a hot ticket in films and resulted in the $20 million sequel jewel of the Nile. Richard Attenborough s a chorus line in which he worked at a reduced salary and was billed alphabetically was a different project for him. It was far removed from the sensitive Young men i had been accustomed to playing he said. Here was a character who lived for Art and for life so obsessed with his own creative vision that he was not sensitive to others who shared the creative  he was the Only name actor in the cast. But you pays for what you gets he said smilingly. I enjoyed the movie but i told them Don t come to me for promotion it s like what happened to my father years ago. A Friend asked him to do a one Day Cameo in a movie and Kirk said sure i la do it for nothing but when the Friend wanted to Bill Kirk along with the other stars he said that la Cost $100,000. The Man said $100,000 for one Day s work Kirk reasoned that was what his name was  Michael doughs stars with Kathleen Turner in verve of the Nile the sequel to romancing the Stone so Douglas was in los Angeles to talk mostly about jewel of the Nile which he made in Morocco and the French Riviera with co stars Kathleen Turner and Danny Devito. Lewis league directed. He had just flown from London with a print that was virtually still wet. Usually my films take four or five years to get made he remarked. Last year 1984 in August Fox decided they wanted a sequel. I found the writers Lawrence Konner Mark Rosentha worked up an idea got a first draft. In september i moved my family to new York and started a chorus line in october. Fortunately i had an office upstairs in the Mark Bellinger theater where we were shooting and i was Able to prepare Lewel there. At the end of january 1985i worked All night to finish chorus line then took a morning flight to Morocco. We started filming in april and finished in july for a Christmas release. Right now i m on  the Mexico shooting of romancing the Stone was beset with problems. But compared to Morocco Mexico was a womb a warm comfortable womb said the producer Star. Heat bureaucracy and logistics made jewel of the Nile extremely troublesome. He was born sept. 25,1945, the first son of Kirk Douglas and English actress Diana Dill. The couple divorced six years later. Michael grew up in new York with his Mother often spending Summers on his father s film locations. At the University of California in Santa Barbara he was a part of the radicalism of the 1960s. Then he settled Down to his father s profession. After a few sensitive Young men roles in failed movies Douglas found himself Drifting into guest roles in the Fri medical Center and other episodic series. That s when he took the role of second banana to Karl Maiden in the streets of san Francisco. I owe everything to the series Douglas said. I Learned about producing and i Learned a lot about acting. Karl was really supportive. Usually the second Lead in a series is the Guy who is two Steps behind the Star and slightly Oul of focus. Karl made me a real partner. Karl and producer Quinn Martin gave me shows of my own and also let me direct a couple. When you re making a 52-minute movie in six Days you learn  Douglas remains close to his father whom he affectionately Calls the crazy  i Learned a lot from Kirk he said but the biggest advice he gave me was How to live a Normal life in a crazy world. He has been Able to do that and i m trying  will there be a sequel to jewel of the Nile i Don t really know. When we were making romancing the Stone we had no idea that it would Lead to another movie. If jewel of the Nile makes a lot of Money  4 20 stripes Magazine february 13,19s6