This week marked the passing of an icon. Kirk Douglas lived to be 103, and it feels strange, waking up in the morning to a world in which he's absent. I could say I was literally born with this man ... my mother took herself to see The Vikings just two days before I was born! And yes, I do know it had an X-certificate at the time (odd, since it screens on TV with a PG rating now. How the world has changed!)
A few years ago, while her eyesight wasn't too bad, she had me do some screen captures from the classic of 1957/58, and print them out for her album. The Vikings was always her favorite Kirk Douglas film -- mine too, actually, though I appreciate many of his movies.
Goodbye to a Hollywood hero who once set the benchmarks. With the slightest bit of luck the rainbow bridge is right ahead.
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