In reply to toad: The best story I heard about him was actually about one of his sons, Joel. Joel was performing at some comedy club in - maybe - LA and was bombing. He was getting increasingly frustrated by the audience reaction. He started shouting: "You can't do this to me, I'm Kirk Douglas's son!" At which point some wag stood up and said: "No, I'm Kirk Douglas's son!" Then someone else stood up and said "No, I'm Kirk Douglas's son!", and so on. You get the picture. I would have loved to be there.