One Helluva Ride, (Paperback)

<b>A boy lost in the shadow of his father's legacy.</b> <p><b>A gifted artist dismissed as just a "TV actor."</b> </p><p><b>A first-time film producer who stunned the world by winning an Oscar at 31.</b> </p><p><b>A maverick who changed Hollywood and became a global movie star. </b> </p><p><b>Hollywood icon Michael Douglas tells the unfiltered story of his life for the first time. </b> </p><p><i>"I spent a significant portion of my career playing some version of the modern, flawed, American male. You'll see from these pages that it wasn't exactly a stretch for me."</i> </p><p>Beginning with his fractured, bi-coastal childhood and a complex relationship with his superstar father, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas finally gives the full and uncensored account of a remarkable life that has spanned an extraordinary eight decades. <i>One Helluva Ride</i> 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. </p><p>Initially dismissed as just the handsome son of a legendary movie star, at age thirty-one he shook up Hollywood and stunned the world when he won his first Oscar for producing the five-time Academy Award-winning classic film <i>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest</i>. When they told him he would never be anything more than a "TV actor," he quit the hit series <i>The Streets of San Francisco</i> 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 <i>Wall Street</i>. </p><p>"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 <i>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest</i>, <i>The China Syndrome</i>, <i>Romancing the Stone, Jewel of the Nile</i>, <i>Fatal Attraction, Wall Street, War of the Roses, Basic Instinct, Falling Down, The American President, Traffic </i>and <i>Behind the Candelabra</i>. These movies not only captured the cultural zeitgeist but often defined it. </p><p>Yet as Douglas's fame grew, so did his personal struggles. Here, for the first time, he recounts the full, unfiltered story of his turbulent first mar-riage; 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 a dangerous addiction that sent him to prison for years; and his against-all-odds battle with stage IV cancer. </p><p>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. </p><p>Father, son, husband, actor, producer, brother and friend. This is the real, raw, deeply honest and vulnerable Michael Douglas you don't know.</p>

• One Helluva Ride, (Paperback)
• Author: Michael Douglas
• ISBN: 9781538786505
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-10-06
• Page Count: 448