Gossip: Michael Douglas
Tabloid reports put Douglas at death’s door, but he is feeling optimistic and hoping to play the title role in Steven Soderbergh’s Liberace.
Having completed a grueling course of chemotherapy and radiation treatment for throat cancer, actor Michael Douglas says reports of his imminent demise are greatly exaggerated. Doctors have told him he will learn in January if the cancer has been driven into remission, and he’s feeling optimistic, despite tabloid reports that have him at death’s door. “I didn’t think of this as life and death; I just saw it as an illness to get over,’’ Douglas tells The Hollywood Reporter. Douglas is hoping to play the title role in Steven Soderbergh’s Liberace, which will start shooting in June.
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