Article: Family business At 86, Kirk Douglas has come to realize life is short. It's just one of the motivating factors behind a new movie starring the veteran actor, his famous son, his grandson and his ex-wife.(Suburban Living)

Byline: Lisa Friedman Miner Daily Herald Staff Writer

With all that's happened to him in the past few years, Kirk Douglas finds himself confronting his own mortality more often than he'd like.

He visits the office his wife Anne maintains and scans the movie posters on the wall.

So many of those he worked with, stars like John Wayne and Anthony Quinn and Lana Turner, are gone now.

"Bob Mitchum - dead. Burt Lancaster - dead. Laurence Olivier - dead," he says.

"You know, it's depressing. So many people that I've known so intimately. But that's the passage of time."

The passage of time. Kirk felt it again last month at ...

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