ONE HELLUVA RIDE

A boy lost in the shadow of his father s legacy A gifted artist dismissed as just a TV actor A first time film producer who stunned the world by winning an Oscar at 31 A maverick who changed Hollywood and became a global movie star Hollywood icon Michael Douglas tells the unfiltered story of his life for the first time I spent a significant portion of my career playing some version of the modern flawed American male You ll see from these pages that it wasn t exactly a stretch for me Beginning with his fractured bi coastal childhood and a complex relationship with his superstar father Kirk Douglas Michael Douglas finally gives the full and uncensored account of a remarkable life that has spanned an extraordinary eight decades One Helluva Ride reveals incredible behind the scenes stories featuring a Who s Who of Hollywood many of them never revealed before and some outrageously funny with an unflinching honesty about his sometimes bad boy life Initially dismissed as just the handsome son of a legendary movie star at age thirty one he shook up Hollywood and stunned the world when he won his first Oscar for producing the five time Academy Award winning classic film One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest When they told him he would never be anything more than a