{"product_id":"douglas-michael-one-helluva-ride","title":"Douglas, Michael - One Helluva Ride","description":"\u003cp\u003eA boy lost in the shadow of his father's legacy.\u003cbr\u003eA gifted artist dismissed as just a \"TV actor.\"\u003cbr\u003eA first-time film producer who stunned the world by winning an Oscar at 31.\u003cbr\u003eA maverick who changed Hollywood and became a global movie star.\u003cbr\u003eHollywood icon Michael Douglas tells the unfiltered story of his life for the first\u003cbr\u003etime.\u003cbr\u003e\"I spent a significant portion of my career playing some version of the modern, flawed,\u003cbr\u003eAmerican male. You'll see from these pages that it wasn't exactly a stretch for me.\"\u003cbr\u003eBeginning with his fractured childhood and a complex relationship with his superstar\u003cbr\u003efather, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas finally gives the full and uncensored account of a\u003cbr\u003eremarkable life. One Helluva Ride reveals incredible behind-the-scenes stories featuring a\u003cbr\u003eWho's Who of Hollywood, many of them never revealed before and some outrageously\u003cbr\u003efunny, with an unflinching honesty about his sometimes bad-boy life.\u003cbr\u003eInitially dismissed as just the handsome son of a legendary movie star, at age thirty-one\u003cbr\u003ehe shook up Hollywood when he won his first Oscar for producing the five-time Academy\u003cbr\u003eAward-winning classic film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Told he would never be\u003cbr\u003eanything more than a \"TV actor,\" he quit the hit series The Streets of San Francisco to\u003cbr\u003ebecome an international movie star, with a list of classic films that have grossed billions of\u003cbr\u003edollars, winning a second Oscar for his riveting performance as Gordon Gekko in Wall\u003cbr\u003eStreet.\u003cbr\u003e\"I can't think about my life without thinking of my movies,\" Douglas says, and he recounts\u003cbr\u003ehis career through twelve of his most iconic films, including One Flew Over the Cuckoo's\u003cbr\u003eNest, The China Syndrome, Romancing the Stone, Jewel of the Nile, Fatal Attraction, Wall\u003cbr\u003eStreet, War of the Roses, Basic Instinct, Falling Down, The American President, Traffic and\u003cbr\u003eBehind the Candelabra. These movies not only captured the cultural zeitgeist but often\u003cbr\u003edefined it.\u003cbr\u003eYet as Douglas's fame grew, so did his personal struggles. He recounts the full, unfiltered\u003cbr\u003estory of his turbulent first marriage; infidelity and affairs with some of the most beautiful\u003cbr\u003eactresses in Hollywood; his own serious struggle with alcohol, drugs and rehab; the\u003cbr\u003eheartbreaking fight to save his son from an addiction that sent him to prison; and his\u003cbr\u003eagainst-all-odds battle with stage IV cancer.\u003cbr\u003eHe saw Catherine Zeta Jones on a movie screen and instantly fell for her. Their incredible\u003cbr\u003elove story transformed his life and proved all the tabloids wrong, enduring after twentyfive years of marriage.\u003cbr\u003eFather, son, husband, actor, producer, brother and friend. This is the real, raw, deeply\u003cbr\u003ehonest and vulnerable Michael Douglas you don't know-until now.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Headline","offers":[{"title":"*Signed* Hardback Book","offer_id":51714276884758,"sku":"RMX-72940","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/One-Helluva-Ride-author-pic.jpg?v=1786705808","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/douglas-michael-one-helluva-ride","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}