Product Description: Based on the 1991 Random House book.

One of the world’s most iconic movie stars, Kirk Douglas has distinguished himself as a producer, philanthropist, and author. Now, more than fifty years after the release of his enduring epic Spartacus, Douglas reveals the riveting drama behind the making of the legendary gladiator film. Douglas began producing the movie in the midst of the politically charged era when Hollywood’s moguls refused to hire anyone accused of Communist sympathies. In a risky move, Douglas chose Dalton Trumbo, a blacklisted screenwriter, to write Spartacus.As both producer and star of the film, Douglas faced explosive moments with young director Stanley Kubrick and struggles with giant personalities, including Sir Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, and Peter Ustinov. Writing from his heart and from his own meticulously researched archives, Kirk Douglas, at ninety-five, looks back candidly―and often with self-effacing humor―at his audacious decision to give public credit to Trumbo, thus effectively ending the notorious Hollywood blacklist.

The noted actor talks about his childhood as the son of an illiterate Jewish ragpicker, the anger born of a difficult childhood, and how that emotion inspired him to succeed as a Hollywood star, fighter, father, and friend

Patricia Dennison's life is a chain of melodramatic events on the disastrous scale of the Titanic. Terrorists have executed her father on a passenger plane. She has inherited a multibillion-dollar empire that she doesn't want, & whose directors are plotting against her. The philanthropic doctor to whom she is engaged turns out to be gay. So she falls instead for a Portuguese bullfighter (who has just killed the husband of his last unfaithful lover). And so, with grandiose implausibility, the successive episodes crash one upon the next

The legendary actor looks back on his long and eventful life, reflecting on the joys and sorrows of aging, his storied Hollywood career, his family and five-decade marriage, and his Jewish faith.

Depicts the Jewish religion through photographs and essays of modern-day rabbis, each revealing background stories and the journeys taken to become a rabbi.

The Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author shares his moving story of survival after a debilitating stroke in 1995, which forever changed his life and taught him valuable lessons, and provides touching anecdotes from such famous figures as Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, Anthony Quinn, Jack Lemmon, Michael J. Fox, and others who have triumphed over adversity. Reprint.

The actor recounts how, after a helicopter crash and a stroke, he returned to his Jewish roots, and found new meaning in his life and reconciliation with his son

Actor Kirk Douglas provides his favorite stories about heroic Biblical figures, including Rebecca, Joseph, and Miriam. (view table of contents)

At the end of World War II, young Moishe is the only one of his family still alive and is left broken by his experiences, so he chooses not to be seen as a Jew and tells people he is a gypsy, until the light of a Sabbath candle begins to change his thoughts and warm his heart once more.

Ellen, a thirtysomething medical librarian tries to make it in the big city, until she meets Ben, a fitness instructor more than twice her age, and their subsequent romance is met with hostility from friends and family members alike. Reprint.

The noted actor talks about his childhood as the son of an illiterate Jewish ragpicker, the anger born of a difficult childhood, and how that emotion inspired him to succeed as a Hollywood star, fighter, father, and friend

Tells the story of an orphaned American heiress, a tragically injured Portuguese bullfighter, and a murderous secret from the past that threatens to destroy them both.