Kirk Douglas News

December 11, 2008
Further Reading: Remember the Song, Remember Town Without Pity?
Town Without Pity, a little-remembered 1961 courtroom drama with Kirk Douglas, inspired a much more familiar song of the same name. But what of the movie asks Kim Newman. More...

August 9, 2007
Writer-Director Mel Shavelson Passes Away at 90
Melville Shavelson, the prolific writer/director of the 1950s and 1960s and frequent president of the Writers Guild of America West, died of natural causes on Wednesday at the age of 90 in his Southern California home. More...

November 11, 2005
Sean Connery Earns AFI's Highest Honor
Thanks to ComingSoon.net for sharing a press release from the American Film Institute: Sir Sean Connery has been selected by the American Film Institute's (AFI) Board of Trustees to receive the 34th AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest honor for a career in film, it was announced today by Sir Howard Stringer, chair of the AFI Board of Trustees. More...