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Kirk Douglas e-book details Spartacus, black list
NEW YORK -- At age 95, Kirk Douglas is not too old to give e-books a shot.
The legendary actor has an e-memoir coming out in June.
Titled I Am Spartacus! Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist, the book tells about the Roman epic that came out in 1960 and helped break Hollywood's ban against suspected Communists.
Douglas, who starred in the Spartacus movie and helped produce it, reveals that Dalton Trumbo wrote the screenplay after the black-listed Trumbo had worked throughout the 1950s under assumed names.
The book includes a foreword by George Clooney. It is being released by Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publisher that announced the deal Monday. An audio edition will be narrated by Douglas' actor-son Michael Douglas.
-- The Associated Press
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition May 15, 2012 ??65534
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