User blog:ARTaylor/Michael Douglas Turns 75

Today is the seventy-fifth birthday of Michael Douglas. The actor is the oldest child of famed actors Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill. He got his first big part on the series The Streets of San Francisco. He got his first Academy Award for producing the Best Picture winner One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, whose rights he got from his father. His big breakout role came in the romantic adventure comedy Romancing the Stone. He would reunite with his co-stars Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito for the sequel The Jewel of the Nile and unrelated film The War of the Roses. After appearing the acclaimed Fatal Attraction he appeared in his most famous role as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. His line "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good" became an instant hit in pop culture while the role earned him his second Academy Award. He has gone on to appear in The American President, The Game, A Perfect Murder, and Traffic. Most recently, Douglas appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man, in the films Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Avengers: Endgame. He is set to reprise the role for What If...?.