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You’ll see from these pages that it wasn’t exactly a stretch for me.” Beginning with his fractured childhood and a complex relationship with his superstar father, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas finally gives the full and uncensored account of a remarkable life. One Helluva Ride reveals incredible behind-the-scenes stories featuring a Who’s Who of Hollywood, many of them never revealed before and some outrageously funny, with an unflinching honesty about his sometimes bad-boy life. Initially dismissed as just the handsome son of a legendary movie star, at age thirty-one he shook up Hollywood when he won his first Oscar for producing the five-time Academy Award-winning classic film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Told he would never be more than a “TV actor,” he quit the hit series The Streets of San Francisco to become an international movie star, with a list of classic films that have grossed billions of dollars, winning a second Oscar for his riveting performance as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. “I can’t think about my life without thinking of my movies,” Douglas says, and he recounts his career through twelve of his most iconic films, including One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The China Syndrome, Romancing the Stone, Jewel of the Nile, Fatal Attraction, Wall Street, War of the Roses, Basic Instinct, Falling Down, The American President, Traffic and Behind the Candelabra. These movies not only captured the cultural zeitgeist but often defined it. Yet as Douglas's fame grew, so did his personal struggles. He recounts the full, unfiltered story of his turbulent first mar­riage; infidelity and affairs with some of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood; his own serious struggle with alcohol, drugs and rehab; the heartbreaking fight to save his son from an addiction that sent him to prison; and his against-all-odds battle with stage IV cancer. He saw Catherine Zeta Jones on a movie screen and instantly fell for her. Their incredible love story transformed his life and proved all the tabloids wrong, enduring after twenty-five years of marriage. Father, son, husband, actor, producer, brother and friend. This is the real, raw, deeply honest and vulnerable Michael Douglas you didn't know—until now.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9781538786505","publication_date":"20261006","publisher":"Grand Central Publishing","slug":"one-helluva-ride","subtitle":"","title":"One Helluva Ride"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"BIO005000","confidence_band":"unbanded","label":"Lives in Entertainment","score":0.91,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"BIO013000","confidence_band":"unbanded","label":"Lives of the Rich & Famous","score":0.31,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"PER004000","confidence_band":"unbanded","label":"Film & Cinema","score":0.42,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"BIO005000","confidence_band":"unbanded","label":"Lives in Entertainment","score":0.91,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"BIO013000","confidence_band":"unbanded","label":"Lives of the Rich & Famous","score":0.31,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"PER004000","confidence_band":"unbanded","label":"Film & Cinema","score":0.42,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"BIO005000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Lives in Entertainment","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"BIO013000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Lives of the Rich & Famous","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"BIO026000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Personal Memoirs","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"PER001000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Acting","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Lives in Entertainment","score":0.91,"slug":"lives-in-entertainment"},{"label":"Lives of the Rich & Famous","score":0.31,"slug":"lives-of-the-rich-famous"},{"label":"Film & Cinema","score":0.42,"slug":"film-cinema"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in Michael Douglas's life and Hollywood career.","Good for readers interested in candid accounts of family and personal struggles."],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Liza Minnelli"],"book_id":"9781538779187","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781538779187.jpg?v=ea5bac145b2e4ae9","score":0.4763,"title":"Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781538779187"},{"authors":["Brian Raftery"],"book_id":"9781668070581","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781668070581.jpg?v=7c6296c0ecc8ef6f","score":0.4747,"title":"Hannibal Lecter","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781668070581"},{"authors":["Jay Glennie","Quentin Tarantino"],"book_id":"9798337402925","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9798337402925.jpg?v=c9715cbd9be4858c","score":0.4866,"title":"The Making of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9798337402925"},{"authors":["Sonny Vaccaro","Armen Keteyian"],"book_id":"9780063423435","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780063423435.jpg?v=aa748196fa725a6e","score":0.4921,"title":"Legends and Soles","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780063423435"},{"authors":["Michael J. 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