Douglas, Michael
From Make Me Heal
In the 1980s Michael tried acting in comedies, the most successful being Romancing the Stone (1984), its sequel The Jewel of the Nile (1985), and The War of the Roses (1989), in which he co-starred with Danny DeVito and Kathleen Turner.
It was in the 1990s, though, in which Douglas gained the most notorious aspects of his reputation. Michael starred in Basic Instinct (1992), a thriller, heavy on sex and violence, which became a worldwide hit. Having played a similar role in Fatal Attraction (1987) with Glenn Close, it did indeed appear that Douglas was being typecast in "man against woman" type roles, and pictures like Disclosure (1994) did nothing to dissuade that opinion. The star actor finally tried to break away from this image with The American President (1995) and The Ghost and the Darkness (1996), yet when he started dating Catherine Zeta-Jones, 25 years his junior, this image continued, even after their marriage.
