The son of actors, including the legendary Kirk Douglas, has earned his own legendary status as an Oscar-winning producer and performer. He now stars as the revolutionary figure Benjamin Franklin in the Apple TV+ series 'Franklin.'
It's been a long time since he was a student here, but on the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara, Michael Douglas still knows his way around: 'That theater was here when I was here 60 years ago,' he said. The campus had been a Marine base during World War II. 'It was all filled with, like, barracks.'Today, the theater with his name on the lobby is a new addition.
'When you start thinking about the time we first created our Constitution, and to see the kind of shape that we're in now, it's a reminder.'The success of the revolution was by no means assured. Had the Americans failed, the would-be founders would have been hanged. Franklin, America's first diplomat, understood the need to go slow and steady with the French. One telling quote from the series: 'Diplomacy must never be a siege, but a seduction.
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