1. September 15, 1986. Promotes film "Tough Guys." Film clip deleted due to copyright caution. 2. September 16. 1988. Book: The Ragman's Son. 3. June 26, 1990. Book: Dance with the Devil. 4. October 30, 1992. Book: The Gift.
I have great memories as a kid watching and re-watching (thanks to my dad) the 1979 comedy-western (starring Kirk Douglas, Ann Margaret and Arnold Schwarzenegger) entitled *The Villain* . My dad and I must've watched it over a hundred times. Popping it in today, is like activating a time-loop. It brings back so many memories. It's a straight-up nostalgia perpetuator. I'm very grateful (to people like Kirk Douglas) for producing films that serve as a feedback-looped-reverberation that brings the past to the present. I'll never get those moments back with my dad (by way of literally re-living them), but movies like *The Villain* is as close as I can get. It'll forever be a time capsule. If you haven't seen it, it's hilarious. I highly recommend it. It also stars Paul Lynde and Foster Brooks. Lynde steals the show.
Made his great grandchildren believe You could live to a hundred and three A hundred and three is forever when you're just a little kid So Kirk Douglas lived forever
Thanks for the great upload Don. What a life he led, and he was such a genial sport with Dave. He was able to maintain himself and his lust for life in remarkable fashion. See what I did there? I was glad you included the clip when he hosted the Ed Sullivan Show. I wonder if they really went out for drinks after that last appearance.
Great collection. Dave had nothing but deep respect for Kirk Douglas it looked like. I really do like it when Dave gets all awe stricken with big stars like Kirk Douglas, Warren Beatty and Paul Newman.
I remember when we were kids we had his "Whale of a Tale" record. That's when people had "record players" instead of turntables. We played the heck out that record and always sang along with it.
Can't believe it, just found out he died. I always liked to think Kirk Douglas would live forever. I feel he was perhpas the last living connection to that old timey Hollywood. See ya around Kirk.
after watching several of Dave Letterman's earlier shows , i now got a feeling that , he was most definitely liked and loved by lots of the legends back then. That gotta mean something back then.
Nice he mentioned Detective Story among his credits in the first intro; powerful, under-known early Douglas dealing with abortion. Ragman's Son also very good about his affairs and anti-semitism in old Hollywood.
Kirk seems like a guy where on the one hand you definitely don’t want to F with him as in be rude or combative but on the other hand he is decent, fairly objective, and committed to earnest work for the betterment of us all. Tough. But good. Sort of an icon of what 20th Century America was all about.
