European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 3, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Books latest role As is by Scott Eyman Cox news service e is 76 now but Kirk Douglas is still spartacus still Vincent Van Gogh that is to say 6 feet of raw grinding intensity. But it is intensity with a bad Back a 1 residue of a 1991 helicopter crash that killed two people and left Douglas badly shaken. He is travelling through Boca Raton fla., to promote his novel the gift a Page Tumer in the manner of Sidney Sheldon and Jackie Collins. It s All about a cruelly handsome Matador his tormented heiress Lover a stallion named ultimate and the pasts that threaten to envelop them All. Douglas says that the gift plays out a the drama of a son s re. Action to a famous father. In a working out what i think Michael Douglas oldest son and an enormous Star in his own right thinks about touring is Ahall encompassing invariably exhausting ordeal one Douglas is not entirety comfortable with. A do i like the Road not really. But it does give you the Chance to meet people. Living in _ California is too insulated. But touring is tiring this morning i signed 550 books. It s something you have to do with books you can to go sell cans of film but books Are an individual thing there Aren t Many parts anymore for 76-year-Qid movie stars so books Are something this singular personality can pour himself into a recurring need for a likable impressively imperious Actoris Man. Douglas has had a career of considerable stature making 80 films with some of them out of the past Ace in the Hole paths of glory lust for life and spartacus fit to be called either very Good or great. Did he have any qualms about the possibility of cheapening his achievement by writing novels a Well if that had happened i would t be Here talking about it with Yogi would i actually i feel like a Young idd starting a hew career. Was i worried Well you either have a Talent or you Don to you can Tell a Story or you can t. A the first Book 1988�?Ts the ragman a son a Fine autobiography was a catharsis i was basically interested in taking a inventory of my life. But i find. Writing much More artistically Gratifying than movies. You do it All no co stars no directors telling you where to stand. A movie is a collaborative Effort but writing is dangerous and frightening work because if you fail there s no one else you can although there has been much scuttlebutt to the effect that Douglas no More writes his books than Ivan a Trump writes hers he insists that he does and in longhand. He does his writing in explosions of he Ergy without any particular work routine a i play out the scenes in my mind. I visualize the scene before i write a Secretary types the pages into a computer and he does the final polish. Ultimately Douglas believes that writing comes from much the same creative place As acting. A though he makes no particular artistic claims for his books he says that he approaches them the same Way he approaches a part. A my favorite of the 80 movies in be made is a Little thing called lonely Are the Brave. It came out and it did no to do anything. But you can to Malm a movie to be a big hit. You have to intrigue yourself. Then you Hope that the audience will be intrigued As Well. Its the same with it is the moment of creation that moment right now that impels Douglas for he confesses that he almost never watches one of his movies after its completed nor reread one of his books.,"when its done it s Over. I m interested in How you react 1 did no to look at lust for life for 30 years because Van Gogh affected me too much i got lost in him which an actor Douglas a you either have a Talent or you Don these Days he is enthusiastic about the results of the election and As a result of the sobering after effects of the helicopter crash spreading some of his. Money around. Quot a a in a have to say my feelings have deepened its like what Clinton said in his Victory speech you. Learn to care about others. He has recently donated Money to open an alzheimer scare unit at the motion picture country Home in Woodland Hills Calif. It will be named Harry shaven after his father. And for this Man who implicitly believes in the mate principle of struggle followed by Conquest there is the next Book. He s Halfway through it and. It will be called last tango in Brooklyn. A i think its going to be very Good Quot he says. A my Best reviews the now gothic a collection of Content Horary gothic fiction edited by Bradford Morrow and Patrick Mcgrath Vintage. These pieces demonstrate that you need be neither victorian nor a Hack to enjoy giving a Good scare. Carrying on in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe Are such writers As Martin Amis Joyce Carol Oates Robert Coover and Jamaica Kincaid. _ bankruptcy a feet for lawyers by sol Stein Evans. Sol Stein who with his wife Patricia Day ran the publishing House of Stein St Day filed for chapter 11 status in 1987 rather than giving him the needed Protection to reorganize his business the bankruptcy proceedings forced him into liquidation. This was originally published As a feast for lawyers. Inside chapter j1 an expose. Hlf Lugata Plaa by Anne Perry Fawcett Crest. 7 Anne Perry a sleuthing 19th-Century couple inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte Are once again uncovering corruption and undoing wrong on the streets of London. Cain s Book by Alexander Trocchi Evergreen Grove. Cain is Joe Necchi a new York drug addict and the alter ego of the author who himself fell prey to addiction and never completed another novel. Rata of exe Hango by Malcolm Bradbury Penguin. Angus Petworth a British professor of linguistics goes to a mythical slavic country that is a kind of hell for an academic of his persuasion he can to communicate. 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