Kirk Douglas him to only say "Thank you", and leave the stage. Douglas agreed. But when standing in front of the audience, he had second thoughts: "I intended to just say 'thank you,' but I saw 1,000 people, and felt I had to say something more, and I did." Valenti remembers that after Douglas held up the Oscar, addressed his sons, and told his wife how much he loved her, everyone was astonished at his voice's improvement: Kirk Douglas Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch Demsky, December 9, 1916) is an American actor, filmmaker, author and centenarian. He is one of the last
Star Trek (film series) original cast and those with the "Next Generation" cast, with the sixth focusing on the original cast and the seventh focusing on the "TNG" cast. The "Next Generation" cast made four films over a period of eight years, with the last two performing only moderately well ("Insurrection") and disappointingly ("Nemesis") at the box office. After the poor reception of "Star Trek: Nemesis" and the cancellation of the television series "", the franchise's executive producer Rick Berman and screenwriter Erik Jendresen began developing a new film, entitled "Star Trek: The Beginning", which would take place after "Enterprise" but before "The Original