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'Gordon Gekko' Working for FBI

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:52:26 CST

The "greed is good" money man who everyone loved to hate in the movie Wall Street has turned a new leaf. He's now working for the FBI, reports MSNBC . "Gordon Gekko," aka Michael Douglas, is doing a public service announcement for the FBI cautioning consumers to be alert, warning Wall...

Judge Nearly Doubles Douglas Sentence

Rob Quinn — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:03:00 CST

Telling Cameron Douglas he was the most reckless defendant he'd ever had in his courtroom, a federal judge has nearly doubled his five-year prison term. Michael Douglas' 32-year-old son confessed to having heroin and pills smuggled into the prison where he was serving time for drug dealing . Judge Richard Berman—...

Michael Douglas' Son Admits Smuggling Drugs in Jail

Mary Papenfuss — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:34:00 CDT

Cameron Douglas has pleaded guilty to smuggling drugs into jail in the middle of a sentence for heroin possession and meth trafficking. "God knows I'm sorry about this situation," Michael Douglas' 32-year-old son said in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday. Douglas was taken from prison and is being held in a...

Damon, Douglas Will Play Lovers in Liberace Biopic

John Johnson — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:34:56 CDT

Michael Douglas will play Liberace in an upcoming biopic for HBO, reports USA Today . Matt Damon will play his young lover, Scott Thorson, and the film will track their relationship during an era when it would have been career suicide for the entertainer to come out as gay, notes the...

Catherine Zeta-Jones: I'm Bipolar

Mary Papenfuss — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:00:00 CDT

Catherine Zeta-Jones has revealed she has undergone treatment in a mental health clinic for her bipolar illness. "After dealing with the stress of the past year, Catherine made the decision to check in to a mental health facility for a brief stay to treat her Bipolar II disorder," said her...

Michael Douglas: I've Got Cancer Beat

Rob Quinn — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 02:00:05 CST

An upbeat Michael Douglas says the tumor in his throat is gone and he has beaten late-stage cancer. "The odds are, with the tumor gone and what I know about this particular type of cancer, I've got it beat," the actor told the Today Show's Matt Lauer in an interview...

'Thin' Michael Douglas Trying to Gain Weight After Chemo

John Johnson — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:45:40 CST

Michael Douglas has dropped a lot of weight during his chemo treatment for throat cancer —he reportedly went from 175 pounds to 139—but a friend tells Radar that he's now on a determined eating campaign to gain it back. The accompanying story has a photo of Douglas on a...

Gekko's Still Got Juice in Money Never Sleeps

Rob Quinn — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 06:30:00 CDT

"Greed is good," Gordon Gekko famously said in Oliver Stone's 1987 Wall Street , but maybe not in film directors. Critics say Stone crams too many story lines and sermons into the sequel, Money Never Sleeps , though Michael Douglas is still deliciously slimy as the ex-con stock trader. Douglas manages to...

Douglas Walks Red Carpet

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:08:00 CDT

Michael Douglas didn’t let cancer stop him from attending the premiere of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps . Douglas walked the red carpet at last night’s New York City premiere, the AP reports. Co-star Shia LaBeouf calls Douglas a “wolf,” and director Oliver Stone says that though the diagnosis is “tough,...