Michael Douglas continues brave fight against canc

[IRON BALLS]

While cancer-stricken Michael Douglas continues treatment in New York, others across the globe, including pal Danny DeVito, are recognizing the actor's work.

DeVito accepted the Golden Icon Award at the Zurich Film Festival Sunday, on Douglas' behalf. The two have starred in several films together, including "Solitary Man," "Romancing the Stone" and "The War of the Roses."

Douglas, who revealed in August he had been diagnosed with throat cancer, could not attend the German festival's "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" screening.

He appeared tired and gaunt on the streets of Manhattan Monday, with his usual salt-and-pepper hair looking extremely gray.


According to the Daily Mail, DeVito praised Douglas at the festival, saying, "Michael is so strong. He gets better and better with every movie he makes. So that's why I tell him to work more."

Douglas' wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, traveled to Wales last week for a golf tournament, and told a crowd of 13,000 people how much her husband wished to be there.

But, she said, doctors "couldn't be happier with his progress," adding that the 66-year-old Douglas is "holding up with great strength and dignity."

Zeta-Jones also said she expects her husband to finish his cancer treatment soon.

[Ricky]

I hope he gets well

[snakesandladders]

My dad admired his dad Kirk Douglas (and so did I!!) and I admire MD too......get well soon man!!!

[blackers45]

Hope he beats cancers ass, to many good ones have been beat ny the Big C

[kim]

I really, really, hate to say this...but the man has lost
his battle with this dreadful, cruel and evil disease.
It's just a matter of time...and a short one by the looks
of things.

You can tell...
You can see it in a person when the affliction strikes
and the above image is no exception.

I apologize for sounding cold or crass, but I have to be
realistic here in my posting of this folks.

Michael Douglas has lost the battle and now he's
simply trying to survive, and live with the results
of what this age old scourge of mankind has delivered
upon him and do the best that he can with the time
that he has left with his family and friends.

Again, I don't mean to be cold...but does anyone here...
seeing that image of Michael, think for a moment that he'll
suddenly have life brought back into that face of his?
Will the "cancer" turn itself off and find the process reversed?
Sorry......the damage has been done.

I've been through it a number of times before...and just went through it again this week with my wife's father as we said goodbye to him yesterday.

He was diagnosed 2 months ago, given 6 months to live.
He was hospitalized on Thursday, Sept. 30th and died
on Tuesday Oct. 5th. The service was yesterday.
There was no turning back, there was no hope,
there was no cure...

Sadly, in Michael Douglas's case...there is only
one outcome at this point.

I said the same thing when it came to light with
Patrick Swayze here on the board.

Again, I'm sorry, but there are some things in life that
just can't be conquered...and cancer is one of them.

Don't get me wrong...if detected at an early enough stage...a person will have the chance of overcoming it...maybe even cheating it to some degree...to the point of prolonging the
inevitable, but eventually, it does take it's place in a person's demise.

For the "what it's worth" department"...and for the naysayers
of Government sponsored Health Care...this episode in our
lives has not cost any of our family or his extended family,
a single dime. Universal health care, and the taxes that we pay
in this country had it covered, even including the "so called"
expensive days of Palliative care in the hospital that Bill was able to receive until the end.

We will not get an invoice and we are thankful for that.

We'll miss Bill......and my wife, along with her 2 sisters, will miss
their father terribly.

In closing, I apologize for digressing...but I did not want to
shy away from the fact that cancer is not something that
is easily dealt with and I'm sure that what Michael Douglas
is going through at this point, must also be hell for not only
himself, but his family as well.


Thanks
Kim

[Trexx]

I dunno Kim, some folks are harder to kill than others.

No one get out here alive anyways.

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I remember Michael Douglas as a child actor in cheesey Disney films... way, way before "The Streets of San Franscisco".

The "Streets of San Francisco" was very cool, because the lion's share of it was actually filmed in S.F. and all the outside and many inside scenes are places I've been hundreds of times.

[snakesandladders]

I remember Michael Douglas as a child actor in cheesey Disney films... way, way before "The Streets of San Franscisco".

The "Streets of San Francisco" was very cool, because the lion's share of it was actually filmed in S.F. and all the outside and many inside scenes are places I've been hundreds of times.

tHE ONLY FUZZ show I dig...along with Mod Squad of course