Kirk Douglas, Longtime Influential Movie Star, Dead at 103
Kirk Douglas, the muscular actor with the dimpled chin who starred in “Spartacus,” “Lust for Life” and dozens of other films and helped fatally weaken the Hollywood blacklist, has died
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