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The Ragman's Son

Kirk Douglas

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Darren Aronofsky recommends it
I read this one in the early '90s when I first got out to Hollywood. My mentor Stuart Rosenberg, who directed Cool Hand Luke, suggested it. It's basically Kirk Douglas's story of coming from nothing—he was a ragman's son—and achieving the American dream through the Hollywood movie system.

on fivebooks.com · 20 Aug 2011

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