On this day: the wedding of the year

The couple pursued the matter, suing for £500,000 damages and eventually won a partial victory on confidentiality grounds in a landmark case for privacy law in Britain.

Earlier this year he was diagnosed with advanced stage throat cancer, for which he is now undergoing treatment.

What the JC said about Michael Douglas: Hollywood lacks true royalty and makes do with dynasties instead, notably Fondas, Waynes, Carradines and Barrymores. And then there is the currently highest profile dynasty of them all, the Douglases… Michael, in both appearance and vocally, is obviously his father’s son. His “Wall Street” character, ruthless corporate raider Gordon “Greed is Good” Gecko, pays obvious homage to Kirk’s ruthless Hollywood producer in “The Bad and the Beautiful,” and his best performances contain the same underlying arrogance and inherent dislikeability that marked his father’s finest work.

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