Reading. 49 Read the following article about one of the best-known Hollywood actors Michael Douglas

49 Read the following article about one of the best-known Hollywood actors Michael Douglas. Make sure you study the language of the text to be competent in further exercises and discussions.

Breaking the Mold

Actor and Producer Michael Douglas

By Alysse Minkoff

It wasn't until the mid-80s, though, that Michael Douglas scored as a film actor -- first as the philandering husband in Fatal Attraction, then as the veritable epitome of Reaganomics greed in Wall Street. As slick, ultra-wealthy financier Gordon Gekko, Michael won an Oscar for Best Actor, an accolade, which has eluded his father. He continues to heat up the screen in such films as Basic Instinct and Disclosure. Now he is starring in An American President.
Michael Douglas creates real men. Flawed. Good. Human. Conflicted. Passionate. Smart, decent men who occasionally have moral lapses. And immoral men who are dazzlingly desirable. As an actor his choices reflect a fearlessness in the face of a public who constantly wants to identify and define its icons by the characters that they portray on film. He's a leading man who doesn't always want to do what the traditional leading man is supposed to do. And he is one of the few men, in any age category, who consistently weaves raw and blatant sexuality into the threads of incredibly charismatic characters.