{"product_id":"one-helluva-ride-the-explosive-memoir-from-the-academy-award-winning-actor-and-hollywood-legend-paperback","title":"One Helluva Ride: The Explosive Memoir From The Academy Award-Winning Actor and Hollywood Legend (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA boy lost in the shadow of his father's legacy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gifted artist dismissed as just a \"TV actor.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA first-time film producer who stunned the world by\nwinning an Oscar at 31.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA maverick who changed Hollywood and became a global\nmovie star.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHollywood icon Michael Douglas tells the unfiltered story\nof his life for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I spent a significant portion of my career playing\nsome version of the modern, flawed, American male. You'll see from these pages\nthat it wasn't exactly a stretch for me.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBeginning with his fractured childhood and a complex\nrelationship with his superstar father, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas finally\ngives the full and uncensored account of a remarkable life. \u003ci\u003eOne Helluva Ride\u003c\/i\u003e\nreveals incredible behind-the-scenes stories featuring a Who's Who of\nHollywood, many of them never revealed before and some outrageously funny, with\nan unflinching honesty about his sometimes bad-boy life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eInitially dismissed as just the handsome son of a legendary\nmovie star, at age thirty-one he shook up Hollywood when he won his first Oscar\nfor producing the five-time Academy Award-winning classic film \u003ci\u003eOne Flew Over\nthe Cuckoo's Nest\u003c\/i\u003e. Told he would never be anything more than a \"TV\nactor,\" he quit the hit series \u003ci\u003eThe Streets of San Francisco\u003c\/i\u003e to\nbecome an international movie star, with a list of classic films that have\ngrossed billions of dollars, winning a second Oscar for his riveting\nperformance as Gordon Gekko in \u003ci\u003eWall Street\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\"I can't think about my life without thinking of my\nmovies,\" Douglas says, and he recounts his career through twelve of his\nmost iconic films, including \u003ci\u003eOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\nChina Syndrome\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRomancing the Stone, Jewel of the Nile\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFatal\nAttraction, Wall Street, War of the Roses, Basic Instinct, Falling Down, The\nAmerican President, Traffic \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBehind the Candelabra\u003c\/i\u003e. These movies\nnot only captured the cultural zeitgeist but often defined it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eYet as Douglas's fame grew, so did his personal struggles.\nHe recounts the full, unfiltered story of his turbulent first mar­riage;\ninfidelity and affairs with some of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood;\nhis own serious struggle with alcohol, drugs and rehab; the heartbreaking fight\nto save his son from an addiction that sent him to prison; and his\nagainst-all-odds battle with stage IV cancer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHe saw Catherine Zeta Jones on a movie screen and instantly\nfell for her. Their incredible love story transformed his life and proved all\nthe tabloids wrong, enduring after twenty-five years of marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eFather, son, husband, actor, producer, brother and friend.\nThis is the real, raw, deeply honest and vulnerable Michael Douglas you don't\nknow―until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Douglas\u003c\/b\u003e is a legendary actor and producer.\nThroughout his career, he has received two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, five\nGolden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild\nAwards. He was honored with the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009, two\nHonorary Cesars in 1998 and 2016, a Film Society at Lincoln Center Gala Tribute\nin 2010, a Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2004, and a Star on the\nHollywood Walk of Fame in 2018. Douglas has also served for twenty-seven years\nas a United Nations Messenger of Peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eShane Salerno \u003c\/b\u003eis a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling\nauthor, and the co-screenwriter of \u003ci\u003eAvatar: The Way of Water, Avatar: Fire\nand Ash, Armageddon\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSavages\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. His company, The\nStory Factory, has been involved in more than thirty \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestsellers.\nHe has known Michael Douglas for twenty-five years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Fleming Jr \u003c\/b\u003eis Editor at large for \u003ci\u003eDeadline\u003c\/i\u003e\nafter serving a decade as co-editor in chief. 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