This Week In Cigar History September 22 - 26

Acclaimed actor and producer Michael Douglas always defies stereotype in the wide ranging character roles he plays and movies he helps shape for big screens. But he consistently favors only the finest cigars, a cherished love he adopted along with his passion for golf. Scion of Kirk Douglas celebrates his birthday, this week on September 25th.

Born in New Jersey (1944), Douglas went the prep school route and graduated USC Santa Barbara before heading back East for serious acting studies. It was the popular ABC television drama, "The Streets of San Francisco" (1972-1976) and later his Oscar winning production of "One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest" (1975) that cemented his reputation as a hard working, risk taker on the Hollywood scene. Leading actor status eventually arrived for good with the romantic flick "Romancing The Stone" (1984).

However, it was the "Greed is Good" charismatic corporate raider, Gordon Gekko that earned Michael Douglas a well-deserved Oscar for acting-in "Wall Street" (1987). Memorably, a major plot device are the fine Cuban cigars "Davidoff -- his favorite and hard to get" that aspiring financial tycoon, Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) gifts Gekko for his birthday -- that moves the heart pounding script forward.

Douglas is happily married to actress Catherine Zeta-Jones...who shares her husband's birth date and love of good stogies.

This Week in Cigar History

9/22/08

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