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Film story Kirk Douglas and Anne Buydens, his better half of practically 63 years, look again on an eternity filled with theatre both on / off the screen. Sharing invaluable correspondence with the other person as well as the celebrities and world market leaders they called friends, Kirk and Anne is a candid portrayal of the pleasures and pitfalls of an Hollywood life resided in the general public eye. Compiled from Anne's private archive of words, this can be an intimate glimpse in to the Douglases' courtship and relationship set against the setting of Kirk's screen triumphs, including The Vikings, Lust for Life, Pathways of Glory, and Spartacus. The words themselves, as well as Kirk and Anne's brilliant descriptions of the experiences, reveal exceptional perception and anecdotes about the famous figures they realized so well, including Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, Elizabeth Taylor, John Wayne, the Kennedys, and the Reagans. Kirk and Anne details the daring, quite often comic, and poignant certainty behind the glamour of an Hollywood life - as only a couple of 62 years (and counting) could tell it.
