Kirk Douglas: Keeping It 100

His treatise about fake news was released in 1951.

At the tail end of a year that has delivered a calamitous number of celebrity deaths, Spartacus continues to fight the good fight. Kirk Douglas, born Issur Danielovitch, today turned 100.

There are innumerable ways to slice and dice Douglas’ accomplishments as an actor and producer, humanitarian, author and more. From our point of view, today’s concerns about the rise of fake news point directly back to the film Douglas made with Billy Wilder in 1951.

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