Peggy Sirota Doesn’t Play By the Rules

 

Peggy Sirota Doesn’t Play 

By the Rules

As one of the most sought-after names in celebrity photography, 

Peggy Sirota spends her days with Hollywood royalty. But when...

BY 

SCOTT ALEXANDER
PUBLISHED MAR 10, 2014 8:47 PM

Bill Murray, GQ, 2013. Peggy Sirota

Drew Barrymore in Marie Claire, October 2009. Peggy Sirota

Brad Pitt, Premiere, October 1994. Peggy Sirota

 

Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood was sexually assaulted as a teen by Kirk Douglas, her sister writes in memoir

In a memoir coming out next week, Wood’s younger sister identifies the actor’s long-suspected assailant

Associated Press
Thu 4 Nov 2021 15.21 GMT

For decades, it’s been one of Hollywood’s darkest rumors: Natalie Wood was sexually assaulted by a top movie star more than twice her age when she met with him at a hotel in Los Angeles as a teenager.

 Kirk Douglas at his Beverly Hills home. Photograph: Steve Schofield for the Guardian

Kirk Douglas: ‘I never thought I’d live to 100. That’s shocked me’

Hadley Freeman
Sunday 12 February 1917



B

oth the house and the man are smaller than you would expect, a result of the diminishing effects of old age that come to us all, if we are lucky enough to live that long. Kirk Douglas, now 100 years old, and Anne, his wife of 62 years, moved into the small bungalow in Beverly Hills about 30 years ago when they downsized from the multiple mansions where they had entertained friends such as Fred Astaire, Lauren Bacall and Ronald Reagan while Frank Sinatra knocked up Italian meals in their kitchen. But if their current home looks unprepossessing from the outside, there are extraordinary treasures within: a Roy Lichtenstein, personally inscribed to Douglas, hangs in the front hallway, while a Picasso and Robert Rauschenberg hang in the living room. The house is filled with modern masterpieces, a testament to the riches accrued by the man originally known as Issur Danielovitch – born so poor that he regularly went hungry until his mid-20s – through his own talent and self-forged toughness.

Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas: Hollywood's impossibly handsome Colossus of Rhodes

He was an actor who blazed with a hyperreal masculinity – and heart-on-sleeve passion

Peter Bradshaw

Thu 6 February 2020

‘I

’m Spartacus!” — “I’m Spartacus!”— “I’M SPARTACUS!” Every film buff knows that moment, every panel show comedian riffs on it. The scene is from the 1960 movie starring Kirk Douglas, the last major survivor of the Hollywood golden age who died on Wednesday aged 103: he was impossibly handsome, virile and inimitably dimpled.

Obituaries / Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas obituary

One of the greatest Hollywood film stars, loved for his roles in Spartacus, The Vikings and Lust for Life

by David Thomson

Thu 6 Feb 2020

Without irony or modesty, Kirk Douglas, who has died aged 103, saw himself as the archetypal American, a sturdy bridge between the abyss of the past and the bounty of the new world.

Indeed, he regarded his life story as worthy of some Los Angeleno Sistine chapel where he was posed – savage, muscular, radiant and determined – his arms linking penniless, uneducated immigrants from Russia and, say, his son Michael, a smooth prince of the city, a fabulously successful producer and actor. And I, Kirk would have cried to the fates and the heavens, I am the ragman’s son.