Word: issur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Herschel Danielovitch was an intimidating, alcoholic junk dealer who ignored his six daughters and his only son Issur. Then one night at their home in upstate New York, the boy splashed hot tea in the old man's face. The punishment was brutal, the reward immeasurable. "At that moment," Issur was to recall, "he knew I was alive. I have never done anything as brave in any movie...
...another, Kirk Douglas has been repeating that gesture most of his life. In this vigorous, anecdotal autobiography, the actor maintains that the clamorous spirit of Issur "has never left me. He is always somewhere within me, often out of sight, but never too far away . . . Often, I tried to kill him, but he never dies." At St. Lawrence University, the ragman's son was the target of anti-Semites. He answered them by becoming a varsity wrestling champion, then running successfully for office. "The alumni were furious," Douglas remembers with perverse delight: " 'What's happening...
...from the President, the 71-year-old star is finally ready to cede the spotlight. As proof, he records a chance meeting with a beautiful admirer. "I suck in my gut, puff out my chest, slap a bicep. In a velvet voice, she says, 'Wow! Michael Douglas's father!' " Issur should live so long...
This cowboy was born Issur Danielovitch in upstate New York. His parents were from Russia. And, he says, "I never rode a horse unless they paid me." But in America, anything is possible. So to honor his work in such films as Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and his own favorite, Lonely Are the Brave, the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City inducted Kirk Douglas, 67, as its newest celluloid cowpoke, joining the legendary likes of John Wayne. The Duke might have been amused. After Douglas portrayed the eccentric painter Vincent Van Gogh. Wayne asked...