- nmq - , s 0 a MON.-SAT. 8 a.m.-6 p.m. 1 e lli SUN. 8 a.m.-3 p.m. 04. AND ROSE GUPTISILAN Former Owner of Irving's Delicatessen DELIVERY AVAILABLE That's the joy of playing a pure villain. ing his well-publicized marital There is no moral dilemma. breakup. 'After doing pictures with moral "I grew up in New York," he notes. ambivalence, struggling to do what's "People always think I grew up in right, to play a hungry white shark is California, but I moved here when I great. Gekko in Wall Street was a bad was about 5 years old with my mom. guy, but he wasn't evil like this guy. We lived here until I was 12, when she They're fun to play and audiences love remarried and we moved to them because we are all taught civility, Connecticut. I've had a place here off what's right, our social responsibility. and on over the years." That's why we love to At the age of 53, watch someone just rip it Douglas is surprised to Michael D ouglas: up, who has no sense what- "One of th e nice things find himself single in soever of that." about havi ng success Manhattan again. Another fun part of A in your ow n right is "It's not what I antici- Perfect Murder for Douglas that you're freer and pated or expected at this able to use that gene was getting to play time, but there are a lot of pool on you r father's Gwyneth Paltrow's hus- nice supportive people out side that a llows you to there in the world." He band. He has long been a have simila r expres- close friend of her parents, knows well that some of sions and g estures. producer Bruce Paltrow and those supportive people actress Blythe Danner, dat- could have ulterior motives ing back even before Gwyneth was for cozying up to a rich and famous born. movie star. "I take it for granted that "I've known her since she was a lit- one's career might be influential to tle girl sitting on my knee," he laughs. some degree. But what the hell." "Now she's a big girl sitting on my Douglas remains close to his famous knee." father, who is doing well despite the Douglas first met Gwyneth's parents lingering effects of a stroke. He also when he was just another actor's kid sees more and more of his old man in trying to get his career started in New his work — and vice versa. York. Now he is living in New York "Dad called about a month ago," again, footloose and fancy-free, follow- he says. "He said, 'You know, Michael, I turned on the television and one of my old movies came on. I was watch- ing my old movie and trying to remember which one it was, thinking, I don't remember this movie. Then I looked again and realized, that wasn't me, it was you!' "I see a lot of similarities. One of the nice things about having success in your own right is that you're freer and able to use that gene pool on your father's side that allows you to have similar expres- sions and gestures. Earlier on, when you're first starting out, in an effort to establish your own identity, you almost have to consciously censor yourself from that. Then things work out and you feel more comfortable." Douglas is also comfortable with his mother's heritage, spending a lot of time at the hotel he owns in Bermuda, where his mother's family comes from. "I'm having fun becoming a hotelier," he smiles. While leaving Hollywood and par- ing down his production company, Douglas is enjoying his acting career. He will next be seen in a World War II movie, U571, directed by Jonathan Mostow. "I get to play the commander of a submarine," he reports. 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