<ul class="summary-list"><li>Michael Keaton will start using a version of his birth name, Michael Douglas, in future projects.</li><li>Keaton couldn't use his birth name initially due to another actor: star Michael Douglas.</li></ul>After a more than four-decade career in movies that's seen him play everyone from Mr. Mom to Batman, Michael Keaton has decided it's time to start going by his birth name.The 73-year-old Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning actor was born Michael Douglas, but that name was already taken when he began his acting career in the early 1970s (the Screen Actors Guild does not allow members to use another member's name). The son of legendary actor Kirk Douglas, Michael, was already in the acting business (you might have heard of him).Keaton couldn't shorten his name to Mike Douglas because that, too, was taken, thanks to the famous talk show host of the '60s and '70s.So he looked elsewhere to decide on a stage name."I was looking through — I can't remember if it was a phone book," <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://people.com/michael-keaton-real-name-michael-douglas-start-using-it-exclusive-8705257?taid=66d8cc34b30c2e000154716c&amp;utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&amp;utm_content=new&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com ">Keaton told People</a> recently while promoting his new movie "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice." "I must've gone, 'I don't know, let me think of something here.' And I went, 'Oh, that sounds reasonable.'"And Michael Keaton was born.<div type="image" title="michael keaton" height="975" width="1300" msid="113103640" hostid="261" sizebytes="34898"></div>Keaton told People that he was planning to finally change his name for his 2023 thriller, "Knox Goes Away," which he also directed. But it was too late when he finally decided to pull the trigger."I said, 'Hey, just as a warning, my credit is going to be Michael Keaton Douglas.' And it totally got away from me," he said. "And I forgot to give them enough time to put it in and create that. But that will happen."His name appears as Michael Keaton in the credits for "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice."Keaton is the latest in a growing list of stars who have publicly stated how they prefer to be addressed.In 2021, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-anne-hathaway-hates-being-called-anne-wants-people-to-stop">Anne Hathaway revealed on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon"</a> that people should call her "anything but Anne," because although that is her legal name, everyone calls her Annie.Earlier this year, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/emma-stone-real-name-emily-2024-4">Emma Stone said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter</a> that her first name is really Emily, and would like to be called that instead of Emma."I freaked out a couple of years ago. For some reason, I was like, 'I can't do it anymore. Just call me Emily,'" she said.

Michael Keaton says he's going to start using a version of his birth name — Michael Douglas 

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12476190" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="natalie-wood" source="Orion">Natalie Wood</keyword>'s sister, Lana Wood, released a memoir this month, diving into the actress' 1981 death.</li><li>In an interview with Insider, Lana offered additional thoughts on some of the memoir's revelations.</li></ul>Lana Wood has now spent more time without her beloved older sister than she ever got with her. It will be 40 years this month since Hollywood icon Natalie Wood's body was found floating in the ocean off Santa Catalina Island on Thanksgiving weekend, 1981. The then-43-year-old had been yachting with her husband Robert [RJ] Wagner, her "Brainstorm'' co-star and friend <keyword id="12512425" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="christopher-walken" source="Orion">Christopher Walken</keyword>, and the vessel's captain Dennis Davern when she disappeared off the back of the boat.But despite four decades of time passed, speculation surrounding Natalie's tragic drowning never seems to fade. The case — which was reopened in 2011 and deemed suspicious in 2018 — remains one of Hollywood's most persistent mysteries. Now, Natalie's younger sister, Lana, is diving back into the infamous unsolved case — and the trenches of her own personal heartbreak — in a new memoir, "Little Sister: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood."An actress herself who played a "Bond girl" opposite Sean Connery in "Diamonds are Forever," Lana told Insider the book is meant to set the record straight on Natalie's life and death. In a phone interview earlier this month, Lana, 75 discussed the challenges and rewards of writing the new memoir, while offering additional thoughts on some of the book's new revelations.The interview has been lightly edited for clarity.When did you decide to write this new book and why? What prompted your desire to tell this story, now?There had been so much said about Natalie, some things blatantly untrue and mean; a lot of fabrications, a lot of supposition. There was just a lot out there that was driving me nuts, and suddenly it dawned on me that, instead of just saying "oh that's nonsense," I needed to have Natalie's back. Nobody was watching out for Natalie. Nobody was portraying her accurately. Nobody was just writing down the facts of the night she died. They were saying "well, maybe this happened," or "maybe this happened." No, it didn't. Go by the facts. I wanted to include what the detectives found, what they said on their report, what the new coroner found, what he says on his report; what an eyewitness says, what an ear-witness says, and my knowledge of Natalie.It's very sweet — well, actually, it wasn't very sweet — it was nice that Natasha (Natalie's eldest daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner) wanted to do a special about Natalie (the 2020 HBO documentary "Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind"), but all Natasha knows is what RJ (<keyword id="12554937" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="robert-wagner" source="Orion">Robert Wagner</keyword>) has told her. Think about it: She was very young when Natalie died, so all these memories...these are stories that were all told to her by someone. She was not a witness to anything, and she didn't have long chats with her mom when she was a little kid, so that upset me.I thought now is the time. I'm getting older. If I have a chance to help Natalie at all, I have to do it now.Editor's note: Representatives for Natasha Gregson Wagner and Courtney Wagner did not respond to Insider's request for comment.Was it difficult or emotional at times to rehash what I'm sure, are some tough memories? It was terrible. It was absolutely ripping my heart out. I would have to stop and walk out of the room, go outside. A lot of times I would just stop and not do anymore for that entire day or two days. It was terrible. It's heart-wrenching.For decades, the story you tell about <a href="https://www.insider.com/natalie-woods-kirk-douglas-alleged-assault-hurt-her-sister-says-2021-11">Natalie's encounter with actor Kirk Douglas</a> was a persistent Hollywood rumor. What prompted you to include that story now and confirm what was for years, an open secret. Did you have any apprehensions about writing about it or including it?No, I don't, because there again, this is for Natalie. And that episode really hurt her for her entire life. Things like that don't go away.When <keyword id="12476189" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kirk-douglas" source="Orion">Kirk Douglas</keyword> first died I was contacted by a lot of press. They wanted me to say something or to confirm the story, and I refused because I think that would have been a very cold thing to do. So out of respect for his family, I would not say anything.But this is my chance to let everybody know what happened to Natalie and what hurt her and what caused some of her reactions. You aren't just born a certain way. She went through quite a lot.Editor's note: Kirk Douglas died last year at the age of 103. In a statement through his publicists to the Associated Press, his son actor Michael Douglas said, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59170667">"May they both rest in peace."</a>In the book, you talk about seeing inaccurate or incomplete variations of the Kirk Douglas story in print over the years, but having promised Natalie to keep it to yourself. Was it difficult knowing the truth and seeing others speculate about it while watching Kirk Douglas have a long life and career?No, you know it wasn't. It wasn't difficult. I'd see a picture or a photograph, or I'd see part of a story and I was just very dismissive of him. I certainly won't watch any movies or anything at all like that. But it was never to get back at him, it was about Natalie. <div type="image" title="Kirk Douglas and Natalie Wood" height="800" width="1600" msid="87916799" hostid="261"></div>Your <a href="https://www.insider.com/natalie-woods-kirk-douglas-alleged-assault-hurt-her-sister-says-2021-11">mother's response to the Kirk Douglas incident</a> is not necessarily how one might expect a mother to react in such a situation, yet it's clear in the book that you have a deep love for her. During the writing process was it difficult at all to reconcile some of the more challenging memories of your mother with your obvious love for her?No, it was not difficult. There again, it was the truth and it's something that I had to write about. And I'm not oblivious to how my mom was. I'm not oblivious to how anybody is, myself included. No one is perfect. Was my mother overly concerned with Natalie and stardom? Absolutely. But that's the way it was. It didn't hurt me then. I just accepted things at face value because that's the way it was. Moving on to Robert Wagner, you detail <a href="https://www.insider.com/natalie-woods-sister-blames-husband-robert-wagner-for-her-death-2021-11">the way RJ treated you in the aftermath of Natalie's death</a> from allegedly "blacklisting" you from the <keyword id="11896019" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="entertainment" source="Orion">entertainment</keyword> industry, to refusing to provide you details about Natalie's final night. Did his odd behavior toward you influence your eventual belief that he was responsible for your sister's death?I've always thought so. I chose not to say anything because there again, I was so worried about the kids and where they were and what they were thinking and how they were coping, and yet I had no contact whatsoever. So, I just felt it was selfish, I felt it was best to keep my mouth shut, and perhaps I could see them, perhaps I could talk to them. It was hope, that was all. Does that mean you don't think there's any hope left to perhaps rekindle those relationships with Natalie's daughters?I don't think so. If there is, that's beyond wonderful. If there isn't, that's the way it's been for quite some time now. And there again, you know, that's fine. I accept how they feel. I don't feel that way. But RJ was the only parent they had left. They had nobody. If I was overly vehement and pointing a finger back then, I was doing nothing but hurting the kids. Nothing. And it was my feeble hope that perhaps, it was true that it was an accident. But I was kidding myself.Until the detectives came up with what they had found, until I was privileged to read the coroner's report, and read the old police report and find things like RJ was spoken with after the accident for exactly six minutes — the detectives had to put in the time they began talking to him and then they had to put in the time it ended, and when it was Christopher Walken's turn: six minutes. Things like that have been absolutely haunting me forever.But I'm very torn. I don't hate RJ. I've known him all my life. I've known him since I was nine years old. So I don't hate him. And I'm sorry that he feels the way he does. But there's nothing I can do about that.<div type="image" title="Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner pose for a picture." height="2048" width="4096" msid="87916800" hostid="261"></div>In the book, you say several times that RJ, Dennis Davern (the yacht's captain), and Christopher Walken would have had hours to get their story straight before being questioned by authorities. You've made it clear where you stand on RJ, but I'm wondering if you place any responsibility for what happened to Natalie on Christopher Walken or believe he <a href="https://www.insider.com/natalie-woods-sister-christopher-walken-spoke-to-detectives-reopened-case-2021-11">has a duty to help more?</a>No. Christopher Walken did speak to the current detectives. He did tell them everything that he witnessed and that he knows. However, he made them promise that they would never reveal anything that he has said. Therefore, they didn't and they didn't even tell me. All they told me was that they did speak to him and they said he told them everything that he knows. Editor's note: Representatives for Christopher Walken did not respond to Insider's request for comment.How are you feeling now that your memoir is out there in the world and stories about Natalie — both her life and death — are back in the <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">news</keyword>?I'm glad because I don't want Natalie forgotten and I don't want people hanging onto ridiculous tales. It drives me nuts when there are things out there that are so blatantly not anything Natalie would do, or was. It makes me crazy. And I'm hoping desperately since I laid everything out — not "I think," not "perhaps, maybe," — I laid everything out so that they will see that RJ is responsible for her death. That's it. He is responsible.And for them to stop blaming and guessing. And to remember her, not simply as a movie star but as a person, who had a full life. She loved those kids more than anything on earth. All those ridiculous things about suicide? I don't know what the point was. It's just ridiculous. She jumped over a railing? Yeah, I don't think so. She fell down and caused 26 bruises and scrapes? I don't think so. It's just ridiculous. So I'm hoping people will see that I don't have any kind of ulterior motive. My motive is not to hang RJ. My motive is not to have him arrested, because it will never happen. He has refused speaking to the detectives. He's never spoken to them. So nothing's going to happen. According to them, the district attorney has said there's no smoking gun. And the head of the homicide department, when he held the press conference where he named RJ a person of interest, he completed his speech by saying all they know for certain is that there were two people arguing at the back of the boat, and then there was one. Those are their words, not mine. Editor's Note: A representative for Wagner did not respond to Insider's request for comment regarding Lana's accusations. The 91-year-old has previously denied wrongdoing in Natalie's death.A detective for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department told Insider that Natalie's death is still considered suspicious, given the remaining unanswered questions."Her husband at the time, Robert Wagner, is the last known person to be with Ms. Woods [sic] prior to her death, and Investigators would like to interview him," Detective Ralph Hernandez said in a statement. "The goal of the investigation is to confirm the truth of how she ended up in the water, thus providing the manner of her death."The case will remain open until it is solved, he said.As the years have gone on and RJ's refused to speak with detectives, have you settled into an acceptance that her case may never truly be resolved? I don't know that it will. I love surprises. I love if things go the right way. But I just seriously don't know. I just wish he had the capacity to simply tell the truth. That's what I would like. Tell the truth. I think he's a coward and I have no respect for him and I don't ever want to speak to him. Ever. What would it mean to you, and to Natalie, if her case could be resolved at some point?It would mean everything. It would mean everything to Natalie. Everything. She could rest.

Natalie Wood's sister on Robert Wagner, Kirk Douglas, Christopher Walken and keeping the movie star's memory alive

<ul class="summary-list"><li>There have long been Hollywood rumors regarding an alleged assault against a teenage <keyword id="12476190" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="natalie-wood" source="Orion">Natalie Wood</keyword>.</li><li>In a new memoir, Natalie's sister, Lana Wood, is naming the alleged perpetrator for the first time: <keyword id="12476189" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kirk-douglas" source="Orion">Kirk Douglas</keyword>. </li></ul>Lana Wood, the younger sister of famed actress Natalie Wood and an actress, herself, is done keeping Hollywood's secrets. In her new memoir, "Little Sister: My Investigation into the Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood," Lana lends her confirmation of what, for years, was a persistent Hollywood rumor.The former "Bond Girl" alleges that in the summer of 1955, while the two sisters were filming John Ford's "The Searchers," their mother, Maria Zakharenko, took the girls to LA's Chateau Marmont, where she instructed a teenaged Natalie to go inside the hotel to meet with a powerful industry icon.The tale of an assault committed against a then-up-and-coming Natalie, who later starred in classic films like "Rebel Without a Cause" and "West Side Story," has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/commentisfree/2020/feb/15/i-didnt-ask-kirk-douglas-if-he-raped-natalie-wood-when-we-met">spurred whispers and theories</a> for years. But for the first time, more than 65 years after the alleged assault took place, a person who knew Natalie directly is naming the accused perpetrator."<a href="https://www.insider.com/natalie-wood-sexually-assaulted-kirk-douglas-lana-wood-memoir-2021-11">Kirk Douglas was ushering me into his suite,</a>" Lana remembers Natalie telling her years later, as she wrote in her memoir"Then she got very quiet," Lana wrote, "and her eyes filled with tears. I could barely hear her when she added, 'And, uh...he hurt me, Lana.'"Douglas, who starred in films like "Spartacus" and "Paths of Glory," died in 2020 at the age of 103. He would have been in his late 30s at the time of the alleged assault and married to Anne Buydens. Lana, a young girl at the time, remembers waiting with their mother in the car outside the Marmont for Natalie to emerge."It seemed like a long time passed before Natalie got back into the car and woke me up when she slammed the door shut. She looked awful," Lana wrote in "Little Sister." "She was very disheveled and very upset, and she and Mom started urgently whispering to each other."When the two sisters spoke about the alleged assault as adults, Lana remembers Natalie describing the incident as an "out-of-body experience," saying she was "terrified" and "confused," though never mentioning the word "raped" or "molested." In "Little Sister," Lana estimates that Natalie was 15 and herself, 7, at the time of the assault, but in the summer of 1955, Natalie would have been 16 or 17, and Lana would have been 9.In response to questions about the discrepancy, a publicist for Harper Collins told <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-11-09/natalie-wood-lana-little-sister-kirk-douglas-book-takeaways">the Los Angeles Times:</a> "The <keyword id="12007221" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="book" source="Orion">book</keyword> is a memoir and reflects present-day recollections of events that happened over six decades ago."<h2>Nobody left to protect</h2>After Natalie told Lana about the assault later in life, the younger sister said Natalie swore her to secrecy.But with the impending 40th anniversary of Natalie's drowning death off the coast of Santa Catalina Island and Douglas's 2020 passing, Lana believes her older sister would forgive her for breaking her word, as there's "no one still around to protect.""This is for Natalie," Lana told Insider in an interview. "That episode really hurt her for her entire life. Things like that don't go away." The 75-year-old said she had no apprehensions about including the story in her new memoir after years of widespread speculation. In "Little Sister," Lana wrote about seeing inaccurate or incomplete variations of the story in print over the years as the rumor mill ruminated on the details.Douglas' name had been raised before but never confirmed. When he died in 2020, <a href="https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/rest-of-the-world-news/natalie-wood-is-trending-after-kirk-douglas-death-heres-why.html">Natalie's name trended alongside his on Twitter.</a>Lana, who had previously discussed the alleged assault, but never named a perpetrator, told Insider that she was bombarded by the press following Douglas' passing with requests to confirm the rumor or discuss his relationship to Natalie. At the time, she refused to comment."I think that would have been a very cold thing to do," she said. "Out of respect for his family, I would not say anything."A representative for Michael Douglas, Kirk Douglas' son, did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, but earlier this month, the actor, through his publicist, told <a href="https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-lifestyle-movies-los-angeles-hollywood-2edc063a1a5529bd6cd7fdca096672cc">the Associated Press</a>, "May they both rest in peace," in response to questions surrounding the allegation. In his own 1988 memoir, "The Ragman's Son," Douglas wrote about meeting Natalie for the first time. "'Oh, Mr. Douglas, would you please sign my jacket?'" Natalie said, according to Douglas' book. "As I obliged, the woman who was driving got out and introduced her. 'This is my daughter. She's in movies, too. Her name is Natalie Wood.' That was the first time I met Natalie. I saw her many times afterward, before she died in that cruel accident."Lana told Insider she didn't include the anecdote to "get back" at Douglas, but instead, wanted to provide insight into some of the struggles that shaped Natalie's life."This is my chance to let everybody know what happened to Natalie," she said. "You aren't just born a certain way. She went through quite a lot."<div type="image" title="Natalie Wood poses with her mother and younger sister, Lana Wood." height="2991" width="3988" msid="87770173" hostid="261"></div><h2>'Suck it up'</h2>The girls' mother was a Russian immigrant, who according to Lana, was "overly concerned with Natalie and stardom."In her memoir, Lana alleges that Zakharenko set up the meeting between Natalie and Douglas in the hopes that "many doors might be thrown open for her, with just a nod of his famous, handsome head on her behalf."Zakharenko's advice to Natalie following the incident, according to Lana, was to "suck it up," telling her daughter not to talk about the alleged assault in order to protect her burgeoning career. But in a book that is dedicated to telling the truth about Natalie's life — and death — the younger sister said she couldn't leave out the more challenging details surrounding her mother's reaction to Natalie's struggles."It was the truth and it's something I had to write about," she told Insider. "I'm not oblivious to how my mom was. Nobody is perfect." <h2>Reliving 'heart-wrenching' memories</h2>The new memoir, which primarily focuses on <a href="https://www.insider.com/natalie-woods-sister-blames-husband-robert-wagner-for-her-death-2021-11">the aftermath of Natalie's mysterious 1981 drowning death</a>, was a labor of love, Lana told Insider. But that doesn't mean writing it was easy."It was terrible, absolutely ripping my heart out," Lana said about the writing process, which required her to delve back into her sister's tragic death and ongoing familial strife."I would have to stop, walk out of the room ... and not do any more for that entire day or two days," she added. But she hopes the project will keep Natalie's memory alive — "not simply as a movie star, but as a person who had a full life."

Natalie Wood's alleged assault as a teenager by Kirk Douglas 'hurt her for her entire life,' sister says

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12476190" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="natalie-wood" source="Orion">Natalie Wood</keyword>'s sister writes in her new memoir that <keyword id="12476189" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kirk-douglas" source="Orion">Kirk Douglas</keyword> sexually assaulted the late actress.</li><li>Lana Wood writes in "Little Sister" that Douglas assaulted Natalie when she was a teen in 1955.</li></ul>Natalie Wood's younger sister wrote in her upcoming memoir that Kirk Douglas sexually assaulted the Hollywood actress in 1955 when she was a teen.An actress later known for her roles in "Miracle on 34th Street" and "West Side Story," Natalie was rising to fame when she met Douglas, an already established movie star, best known then for his role in "Spartacus."In her memoir, "Little Sister: My Investigation into the Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood," set to come out next week, Natalie's younger sister, Lana, wrote about the alleged incident.In a copy read by Insider, Lana said that the alleged incident occurred in the summer of 1955 at Los Angeles' Chateau Marmont hotel. Lana wrote that their mother, Maria Zakharenko, set up a meeting between Natalie, who was in her late teens, and Douglas, who was in his late 30s, in the hopes that "many doors might be thrown open for her, with just a nod of his famous, handsome head on her behalf.""It seemed like a long time passed before Natalie got back into the car and woke me up when she slammed the door shut. She looked awful," the 75-year-old wrote. "She was very disheveled and very upset, and she and Mom started urgently whispering to each other."<div type="image" title="natalie wood" height="1362" width="1816" msid="87543997" hostid="261"></div>"I couldn't really hear them or make out what they were saying," Lana continued in the book. "Something bad had apparently happened to my sister, but whatever it was, I was apparently too young to be told about it."Lana noted in her memoir that she was only 8 at the time of the alleged incident so she didn't find out more details until she and Natalie were both adults."He hurt me, Lana," Lana remembered Natalie telling her, according to the memoir. "It was like an out-of-body experience. I was terrified, I was confused."Lana wrote that both her sister and their mother agreed to not talk publicly about the alleged incident with Douglas to protect Natalie's career. She added that Zakharenko's advice to Natalie was to "suck it up."Lana wrote that she's coming forward with Douglas' name now because both parties are dead. <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/kirk-douglas">Douglas passed away in 2020 at the age of 103,</a> and authorities are still looking into <a href="https://www.insider.com/natalie-wood-death-robert-wagner-investigation-2018-2">the 1981 death of Natalie, which is the primary focus of Lana's memoir.</a>"With no one still around to protect, I'm sure she'll forgive me for finally breaking that promise," the actress wrote in "Little Sister."Douglas' son, the actor Michael Douglas, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-lifestyle-movies-los-angeles-hollywood-2edc063a1a5529bd6cd7fdca096672cc">told AP</a> in a statement in response to the allegations: "May they both rest in peace."<div type="image" title="Kirk Douglas" height="2536" width="2000" msid="87543999" hostid="261"></div><h2>Douglas wrote about meeting Natalie in his own memoir, 'The Ragman's Son'</h2>In his 1988 memoir, "The Ragman's Son," Douglas wrote that he met Natalie for the first time during a random encounter, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-lifestyle-movies-los-angeles-hollywood-2edc063a1a5529bd6cd7fdca096672cc">according to the AP.</a>Douglas wrote, per the AP, that he was stopped at a red light on his way home one night when "a pretty little girl wearing a suede jacket" hopped out of the car in front of him and asked him to sign her jacket."'Oh, Mr. Douglas, would you please sign my jacket?'" Natalie said at the time, according to Douglas' book. "As I obliged, the woman who was driving got out and introduced her. 'This is my daughter. She's in movies, too. Her name is Natalie Wood.' That was the first time I met Natalie. I saw her many times afterward, before she died in that cruel accident."<h2><div type="image" title="robert wagner natalie wood" height="1357" width="1809" msid="87544002" hostid="261"></div></h2>Lana's memoir, set for release on November 9, mostly focuses on Natalie's 1981 death after her body was found near Catalina Island in California.After being initially ruled as an accidental drowning, the case was reopened in 2011, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/11/04/natalie-woods-sister-says-robert-wagner-killed-the-actress/">NY Post</a>. Insider's former <keyword id="11896019" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="entertainment" source="Orion">entertainment</keyword> reporter, <a href="https://www.insider.com/author/carrie-wittmer">Carrie Wittmer,</a> reported in 2018 that the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department <a href="https://www.insider.com/la-sheriffs-department-says-its-getting-closer-to-solving-natalie-wood-case-2018-2">said then that they were getting closer to solving the case.</a>In "Little Sister," Lana holds 91-year-old actor<a href="https://nypost.com/2021/11/04/natalie-woods-sister-says-robert-wagner-killed-the-actress/"> Robert Wagner,</a> Natalie's husband at the time, responsible for her death. He's also been named a "person of interest" by Los Angeles sheriff's officials, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/north-america-us-news-ap-top-news-natalie-wood-christopher-walken-9a433c86d4ba4e2b8aa643d8f3b12e18">according to the AP</a>.Insider reached out to a representative for Wagner, but didn't immediately hear back. Still, his rep had no comment <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/11/04/natalie-woods-sister-says-robert-wagner-killed-the-actress/">when reached by the NY Post.</a>

Natalie Wood was sexually assaulted by Kirk Douglas, her sister writes in new memoir

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When you think of John Goodman, you likely picture him as Walter Sobchak, the gun-toting bowling enthusiast from "The Big Lebowski." Or Dan Conner, the easygoing family man from "Roseanne." Or Sulley, the kind-hearted furry monster from Pixar's "Monsters, Inc." franchise.But when John Goodman thinks back on his four-decade career and the over 170 credits to his name, he mostly remembers that it was a lot of work.That still holds true today, as the 71-year-old is pulling double duty playing the patriarch on two very different TV shows.On ABC's "The Conners," a spin-off of "Rosanne," Goodman once again plays working-class husband Dan Conner, the role that made him a star through the 1990s and brought him seven Emmy nominations.As megachurch pastor Eli Gemstone on the HBO series "The Righteous Gemstones," Goodman is anything but the everyman, playing the wealthy and ruthless head of a dysfunctional family of televangelists.He'll admit, the last few years of simultaneously filming both shows have led to him sometimes needing a minute or two to figure out which part he's playing — or what city he's in."I was flying back and forth between Los Angeles and Charleston, that broke me," Goodman told Business Insider of traveling between the two sets. "I've just been working too hard. And I don't need to, because I've been doing this forever."<div type="image" title="the righteous gemstones" height="2133" width="3200" msid="107500707" hostid="261"></div>Clearly, Goodman still enjoys the work. Especially when it comes to playing a character like Dan Conner."We're coming up on our 100th show of this run on it and I'm still thrilled to be here," Goodman said of the milestone "The Conners" will hit in its sixth season, which premieres Wednesday on ABC.After playing Dan for nine seasons on "Rosanne," the character was thought to be dead when the show initially ended in 1996. But Goodman returned to the role when the show came back for a 10th season in 2018. (It was explained that Dan's death was just a dream.) Following <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/roseanne-barr-history-racist-inflammatory-comments-2018-5">controversial comments made by the show's star Rosanne Barr</a> months after the 10th season ended, "The Conners" was launched as a spinoff, with Barr excluded.The twists and turns of Dan's fate meant Goodman has learned to expect the unexpected on "The Conners.""Maybe I die again," he joked.For the latest installment in <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/role-play-series">BI's "Role Play" series</a>, Goodman discusses his favorite Coen brothers movie, why "Bringing Out the Dead" was a hard movie to make, and the time he called 411 looking for Al Pacino.<h2>On his favorite Coen Brothers movie and faking it in his first movie role</h2>You made your movie debut in 1983 in "Eddie Macon's Run," which stars Kirk Douglas. You don't have any scenes with Douglas, but did you ever seek out the legend on set?No. I never got to meet him. I had friends who worked with him. They enjoyed the experience. I was in Laredo, Texas for a couple of weeks. I only had one scene. But I had a lot of friends on the film so it was fun. And it was all of our first movie.Did you even think of just going to set the day Kirk was on? Just to see how he acted?I was at sea basically. I didn't really know what I was doing. I was faking everything, much like now. And I just didn't want to ruffle any feathers.Your work with the Coen brothers has led to you playing some of the most memorable characters in movie history. What is your favorite Coens movie you starred in?It changes.What is it today?"Barton Fink."Number one?Yeah. It was all enjoyable and it was easy because everything was right on the page for me. Just show up and have a lot of fun.With "The Big Lebowski," does it still amaze you that it will be the movie you're most known for? It's certainly on the Mount Rushmore of movies and TV from your career.It would make me very happy to think that. I enjoyed doing it so much and working with Jeff and the brothers. I'm proud of it. It helps me think that I was right. [Laughs]<h2>On working with Al Pacino and the casting rumor about him he's never heard</h2><div type="image" title="John Goodman talking to Al Pacino" height="694" width="1281" msid="107500708" hostid="261"></div>Here's one of those internet facts that comes up about you: Is there any truth to the rumor that you were considered for "Uncle Buck"?That's the first time I've ever heard that! Probably not. I'm sure glad the way things turned out because John [Candy] was brilliant in it.OK, glad we could debunk that.Yeah, that's not true. Not true at all.But is it true that after you saw "The Godfather Part II" you tried to seek out Al Pacino by dialing Information?Through Information, yeah. A buddy of mine, we went back to our house and tried to call Information and see if they had a phone number for "Al Pacino," "Alfredo Pacino," "A. Pacino." It didn't work out.I told him that story when we did "Sea of Love" and he was amused. It was a great opportunity to work with Al. He was very kind and very patient and we just kind of fit in the same groove together. It was very rewarding.You've worked with Pacino numerous times, and Denzel Washington multiple times. Tomorrow, you get calls to work with both actors, but you can only fit one into your schedule. Whose project do you choose?Well, there's another factor in this: the script. So I'm going to go with the one that has the best script. That's how I'm going to skate around this question. [Laughs]<h2>On the movie that felt like he 'wasted a great opportunity'</h2><div type="image" title="John Goodman and Nicolas Cage sitting in an ambulance" height="1382" width="2048" msid="107500710" hostid="261"></div>What memories come to mind with starring in Martin Scorsese's 1999 movie "Bringing Out the Dead"?Oh, I was in a bad place. My wife brought my daughter up for the shoot and she got appendicitis. I got home from work at about six in the morning. She had been up all night. We brought a doctor in. We had to get her to a hospital in midday Manhattan and it was impossible. I was not getting a lot of sleep. Dan Aykroyd and his family took care of my daughter for a while when I was working. Plus, I was in a bad place mentally then. I wish I would have been present for the film because I feel I wasted a great opportunity.To the point that you burned a bridge with Scorsese?I don't think he even considers me to have burned a bridge. I'm not worried about that. I had some problems going on at the time.That's a tough movie to do if you're not in the right headspace, I would imagine.But it was good because I was in my old neighborhood and we got to work nights, there was nobody around. That was kind of cool.Any Nicolas Cage stories from set?He's certainly his own man. He's just filled with a lot of energy and ideas. Same with when we did "Raising Arizona" together.<h2>On the performances he'd go back and redo</h2><div type="image" title="John Goodman as Babe Ruth" height="800" width="1200" msid="107500712" hostid="261"></div>Is the 1992 biopic on Babe Ruth, "The Babe," still the movie you want a do-over on?Yeah. And I'd love another shot at "Barton Fink," too.No kidding! Really?Yeah, a couple of things make me cringe. But "The Babe" just deserved a better shot. I wish I would have had six months for research. I spent every day throwing left-handed, but then I learned he pitched side arm so I could have done that all over. But there's a lot of things about my performance that bothered me.Give me one thing you would have changed from "Barton Fink."There's a couple scenes with John [Turturro] that I would have changed. I think I'm a better actor now. I'd just do them differently.Do you think you'll ever perform "A Long Day's Journey Into Night" for the stage? I know that's on your bucket list.I don't know, I'd probably need a year of preparation for voice work. Studying Eugene O'Neill. That would be comfortable for me. My voice has gotten terrible over the years and I just need to hammer that. I'd love to do it sometime.How about on the screen? Any role you still itching to do?I'd love to do another comedy. I've done a Western, but I wasn't on a horse. So I'd like to do a Western comedy.This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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<keyword id="23528" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kirk-Douglas">Kirk Douglas</keyword>, the last of the giants who ruled Hollywood's Golden Age, and starred in iconic films like "<keyword id="515990" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="20" keywordseo="Spartacus">Spartacus</keyword>" besides being the greatest ladies man in Tinseltown, has died, his family has announced. He was 103. "It is with tremendous sadness that my brothers and I announce that Kirk Douglas left us today at the age of 103," his son, Michael Douglas, said in a statement posted on Facebook on Wednesday. "To the world, he was a legend, an actor from the golden age of movies who lived well into his golden years, a humanitarian whose commitment to justice and the causes he believed in set a standard for all of us to aspire to," it further said. Propelled by a powerhouse work ethic and strikingly handsome features, Douglas rose from the poorhouse to Hollywood royalty while starring in some 90 films and TV series over some 60 years - including career-defining roles as the sword-swinging gladiator in "Spartacus" and the tortured artist Vincent van Gogh in "Lust for Life." Along the way, the notorious flirt bedded a bevy of Hollywood beauties -- and sired a showbiz dynasty with four sons, including famed actor Michael Douglas, reported pagesix.com. Many wouldn't know though that before being the Kirk Douglas of marble-chiseled features, he was Issur Danielovitch -- the son of dirt-poor Russian-Jewish immigrants born outside Albany in 1916. Douglas' father was a peddler whose station was one rung below the bottom of the social ladder -- and Douglas' life was defined by his desire to break out of the poverty and earn his father's approval. The latter proved elusive for his whole life. "I never heard my father say, 'I'm proud of you,'" he told Parade magazine in 1986. Douglas's romantic and professional lives were entangled from the earliest -- and his first taste of both came through a relationship with his high school English teacher, pagesix.com said. Douglas passed out from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He attended the St. Lawrence University where he wrestled and buffed up his physique. He got into the liberal arts school after hitchhiking to the campus as a teen and convincing the dean to approve a student loan. After graduating, he lent his talents to a few minor Broadway productions, but he pushed pause on his acting career to join the Navy in 1941. Serving on a sub-hunting ship in the Pacific before he was medically discharged in 1944 for injuries after his own crew accidentally set off a depth charge too close to their ship. Though Douglas never got to battle Hitler in the European theatre, he found other ways to combat anti-Semitism. Pagesix says, Douglas once bedded a woman he knew to be an anti-Semite, just so he could shout, at the climactic moment: "I'm a Jew! You are being f--d by a Jew!" according to his kiss-and-tell 1988 autobiography "The Ragman's Son". In 1943, Douglas wedded actress Diana Dill and the couple produced two sons before their 1951 split: they grew up to be actor Michael Douglas and producer Joel. After his discharge from Navy, in 1944, Kirk Douglas landed his first big-screen gig opposite Barbara Stanwyck in 1946's "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" a role that required the healthy-living thespian smoke cigarettes. He delivered his breakthrough performance as a pugilist Midge Kelly in 1949's "Champion" -- the role that earned him his first of three Academy Award nominations for the Best Actor. Some of his top roles came when he teamed up with a little-known director named Stanley Kubrick for 1957's "Paths of Glory" and 1960's "Spartacus". The only catalogue to, perhaps, rival his extensive acting career is the list of starlets he romanced over the decades, he wrote in his autobiography. These women included Joan Crawford, Linda Darnell, Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, Evelyn Keyes, Marilyn Maxwell, Patricia Neal, Ann Sothern and Gene Tierney, pagesix said. In 1954, Douglas married his publicist Anne Buydens and had two more sons: Producer Peter and actor Eric. Starting 1955, Douglas pivoted from leading man to Renaissance man when he opened his own film shop, Bryna Productions - named after his "dear mother". Unlike most leading men of his day, Douglas never tied himself to one movie studio. In a 1975 interview to the Post, Douglas bragged: "I was never part of Old Hollywood." His only Oscar was an honorary award but Kirk Douglas became a Hollywood icon, with a film career spanning seven decades. He prided himself on playing the tough guys, the sort of characters he once described as "sons of bitches". He threw himself into his many roles with relish, acting with an intensity that often spilled over into his private life. And he had a fine contempt for the Hollywood studio establishment, something that may well have made his career less successful than it was, said the BBC in its obituary. Several of his most famous roles were as villains, such as the ruthless journalist in "Ace In The Hole" in 1951, who refuses to let sentiment or morality get in the way of a good story. He won critical acclaim for his portrayal of Vincent van Gogh in "Lust for Life" in 1956, but his own lust for power earned him many enemies. One of his more notable roles of this period was as Colonel Dax, the commander of a French regiment on the Western Front in the Stanley Kubrick film, "Paths of Glory". Based on a real-life incident, Douglas is called upon to defend three soldiers charged with mutiny, who are eventually shot. Douglas resisted attempts by Kubrick to change the ending and reprieve the men. Douglas set up his own production Byrna in a bid to escape the grip of the big studios, which hired and fired at whim. He also defied the anti-communist witch-hunts of the McCarthy era by openly hiring a blacklisted writer, Dalton Trumbo, to script "Spartacus". Douglas faded from the big screen in the 1970s but in his later years made a fairly successful comeback in films such as "Tough Guys" with Burt Lancaster and "Greedy" with Michael J. Fox. His energy did not flag as he grew older. He became a director, producer and novelist. Douglas served four US presidents in the role of special ambassador, and in 1981 received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He also created a charitable foundation and donated more than $1m to the Motion Picture and Television Fund. His autobiography, "The Ragman's Son", made the New York Times best-seller list. Douglas also wrote two novels, "Dance with the Devil" and "The Secret". Douglas, who was given a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute in 1991, suffered a stroke in March 1996 which paralysed one side of his face. But despite the stroke affecting his ability to speak, he was able to give the acceptance speech at the 1996 Academy Awards when he received a special award for "50 years as a moral and creative force in the motion picture community".

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Helen Mirren is defending her use of prosthetics to portray a Jewish historical figure.</li><li>Mirren spoke to BBC about the controversy of non-Jewish actors playing Jewish roles.</li></ul><a href="https://www.insider.com/50-cent-loves-helen-mirren-sexy-forever-2023-8">Helen Mirren</a> was recently asked to weigh in on the "<a href="https://www.insider.com/bradley-cooper-jewface-controversy-mrs-maisel-2023-8">Jewface</a>" debate and defended her and <a href="https://www.insider.com/who-has-been-sexiest-man-alive-people-2018-11">Bradley Cooper's</a> decision to use facial prosthetics to amplify their resemblance to the Jewish historical figures they play on screen.The Oscar-winner portrayed Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in the recently released film "Golda," while Cooper directs and stars in "<a href="https://www.insider.com/maestro-bradley-cooper-leonard-bernstein-cast-real-life-photos-2023-8">Maestro</a>," an upcoming Netflix biopic about composer Leonard Bernstein. Neither are Jewish.Appearing on the BBC's political program, "<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66966705" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg</a>," Mirren was asked if she understood why people are uncomfortable with non-Jewish actors playing Jewish historical figures and the recent backlash Cooper faced upon <a href="https://www.insider.com/bradley-cooper-maestro-jewface-netflix-controversy-explained-2023-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the trailer's release</a>.She responded: "I think I can see, but sometimes I can't see because I can't see who in this room is Jewish." <blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="undefined"> —BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1708453556146102439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2023</a> </blockquote>"We are all such an amazing mix," the "<a href="https://www.insider.com/helen-mirren-excited-to-film-1923-harrison-ford-bedroom-scenes-2023-4">1923" star added,</a>" before stating that when the reverse happens and Jewish actors play non-Jewish roles, she doesn't have a problem. "Certainly I don't have an issue with Kirk Douglas playing a Viking," she said while referencing Douglas' 1958 movie, "The Viking." "Kirk Douglas was Jewish," she continued."I think the whole question of assuming a certain physiognomy because you're playing a particular race, there is something offensive about that," she continued. "On the other hand, if you're playing Leonard Bernstein, and this is really what Leonard Bernstein looked like, you know, maybe it's a good idea. It's a very delicate balance," Mirren said.Representatives for Mirren did not respond to Inisder's request for further comment.<div type="image" title="Bradley Cooper at the world premiere of &quot;Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3&quot; on April 27, 2023 in Hollywood, and as Leonard Bernstein in &quot;Maestro.&quot;" height="900" width="1200" msid="104113391" hostid="261" sizebytes="70808"></div>In August, Cooper was criticized for wearing a prosthetic nose in "Maestro" to enhance his resemblance to the late composer. Representatives for Cooper did not respond to Insider's earlier requests for comment in regard to the accusations.However, not everyone took offense to Cooper's prosthetic nose, including <a href="https://www.insider.com/leonard-bernstein-netflix-maestro-bradley-cooper-nose-backlash-2023-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bernstein's children</a>. In a statement to Insider on August 16, Bernstein's children Jamie, Alexander, and Nina Bernstein all defended Cooper, saying that they were touched by his commitment to telling their father's story.Before Cooper, back in January 2022, Mirren <a href="https://variety.com/2022/film/news/helen-mirren-jewface-golda-meir-1235148911/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sparked a similar debate</a> when the first photo of her in costume and makeup as Meir was released, which showed her wearing a pronounced nose in the Guy Nattiv-directed film (Nattiv himself is Jewish-Israeli).At the time, actor Maureen Lipman, who is Jewish, told <a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/news/'it's-a-disaster'-theatre-giants-draw-battle-lines-over-'jewface'-75paYgP4ZvrPf4toRIhyyU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Jewish Chronicle</a> she disagreed with Mirren's casting "because the Jewishness of the character is so integral," while others debated the issue on <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/s2v3n4/casting_as_of_now_helen_mirren_as_golda_meir/">Reddit</a>.<div type="image" title="Helen Mirren portrays Jewish-Israeli leader Golda Meir in &quot;Golda.&quot;" height="1080" width="1440" msid="104113393" hostid="261" sizebytes="139174"></div>Mirren and Cooper are hardly the first actors <a href="https://www.insider.com/bradley-cooper-jewface-controversy-mrs-maisel-2023-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused of "Jewface" </a>— a term used when non-Jewish actors portray Jewish people in a manner that reinforces demeaning stereotypes. Still, the issue has been highlighted more recently as part of a general push for authentic casting in Hollywood."There's this long tradition of non-Jews playing Jews. And not just playing people who happen to be Jewish, but people whose Jewishness is their whole being," the comedian <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e54-jewface-iron-dome-mr-mom/id1533130572?i=1000537086147" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Silverman</a> explained on her namesake podcast in 2021. "One could argue, for instance, that a gentile playing Joan Rivers correctly would be doing what is actually called Jewface."Silverman defined"Jewface" as when non-Jews portray Jewish people with "Jewishness front and center — often with makeup or changing of features, a big fake nose, all the New York-y or Yiddish-y inflection."

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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="6354862" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="trump">Trump</keyword> Plaza in <keyword id="113548" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="ATLANTIC-CITY">Atlantic City</keyword> is set to be demolished after sitting vacant since 2014, although a exact timeline for the teardown is yet to be determined.</li><li>The building has become a hazard as debris and pieces of the building's exterior disintegrate.</li><li>The complex is one of three formerly owned by Donald Trump before his presidency. All have since changed names and owners.</li></ul>Trump Plaza, the home of a former Trump casino and hotel in Atlantic City, will be torn down after the building's owner, billionaire <keyword id="15937" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Carl-Icahn">Carl Icahn</keyword>, submitted plans for demolition to local government officials, <a href="https://www.nj.com/atlantic/2020/06/eyesore-of-former-trump-plaza-will-be-demolished-but-not-soon-enough-atlantic-city-mayor-says.html">NJ.com reported Thursday.</a>The building, which was <a href="https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/06/11/trump-plaza-atlantic-city-soon-demolished/">constructed and owned by Donald Trump</a> before his presidency, has sat vacant since 2014 but the process to tear down the casino and hotel complex is now underway, although it is unclear what the timeline for the demolition will be.Mayor Marty Small has been adamant about getting rid of the complex and is working with Icahn Enterprises to raze the buildings. Icahn Enterprises <a href="https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/502416-vacant-trump-plaza-casino-in-atlantic-city-to-be-demolished">estimated the demolition for June 2021</a> but said Small wouldn't accept that time table."That's smack dab in the middle of our season," Small said, <a href="https://www.nj.com/atlantic/2020/06/eyesore-of-former-trump-plaza-will-be-demolished-but-not-soon-enough-atlantic-city-mayor-says.html">according to the NJ.com</a>. "My administration's goal is to get it down by the end of the year, or late February, and time for cleanup for next summer season."The building has become a hazard to the area as it disintegrates, with <a href="https://www.nj.com/atlantic/2020/06/eyesore-of-former-trump-plaza-will-be-demolished-but-not-soon-enough-atlantic-city-mayor-says.html">debris strewn across the boardwalk</a> and piece of the facade falling from as high as 34 stories."Vacant buildings are not good for a city, especially high rises," <a href="https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/06/11/trump-plaza-atlantic-city-soon-demolished/">Fire Chief Scott Evans told CBS Philly</a>. "We've been responding to this building many times, mostly for debris falling from the building. Debris has fallen from the 34th floor. It's nerve-wracking for us when we get high winds. I cringe."Trump <a href="https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/502416-vacant-trump-plaza-casino-in-atlantic-city-to-be-demolished">sued to have his name removed</a> from the building a month after it shuttered. The complex, which opened in 1984, is one of three casinos Trump built. The other two have since changed names and ownership, <a href="https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/502416-vacant-trump-plaza-casino-in-atlantic-city-to-be-demolished">according to The Hill</a>.During its peak, celebrities stayed and performed at Trump Plaza. Jack Nicholson and Kirk Douglas once <a href="https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/casinos_tourism/what-is-next-for-trump-plaza-and-the-atlantic-club/article_93e254ea-bca3-58a3-bb8e-ad5ab98db2e4.html#38">watched a boxing match</a> between Mike Tyson and Larry Holmes. Vanessa Williams, the Beach Boys, as well as Darryl Hall and John Oates, <a href="https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/top_three/look-back-at-trump-plaza/collection_aa2293cc-a5f0-57fb-8d75-f1f5940d7d1a.html#19">preformed at Trump Plaza</a>. But by 1992 the hotel and casino <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/nyregion/donald-trump-atlantic-city.html">filed for bankruptcy</a>.Hillary Clinton <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/atlantic-city-clinton-uses-abandoned-trump-building-giant-prop-n604771">used the landmark as a prop</a> during her campaign for the 2016 presidential election. She said the property was a testament to Trump's failure as a businessman with the sole agenda of getting rich.<div type="image" title="Trump Plaza Hillary Clinton Campaign" height="3749" width="5697" msid="76347282" hostid="261"></div>Efforts to get rid of the complex have been <a href="https://www.nj.com/atlantic/2020/06/eyesore-of-former-trump-plaza-will-be-demolished-but-not-soon-enough-atlantic-city-mayor-says.html">underway since 2017,</a> a year after <a href="https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/502416-vacant-trump-plaza-casino-in-atlantic-city-to-be-demolished">Icahn took over the property</a> when he acquired Trump Entertainment Resorts in 2016 from bankruptcy. "It's an embarrassment, it's a blight on our skyline, and that's the biggest eyesore in town," <a href="https://www.nj.com/atlantic/2020/01/atlantic-city-mayor-wants-former-trump-casino-eyesore-torn-down.html">Small said in January according to NJ.com</a>.City officials will <a href="https://www.nj.com/atlantic/2020/06/eyesore-of-former-trump-plaza-will-be-demolished-but-not-soon-enough-atlantic-city-mayor-says.html">hold a meeting next week</a> to decide how to make the process faster.

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image"><a title_source="Screen grab" title_caption="A screen grab from a blueprint found by Playboy editorial staff." class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/551b4ad66bb3f72e1953d8cc-960/one more screengrab.png"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/551b4ad66bb3f72e1953d8cc-1200-800/one more screengrab.png" border="0" alt="one more screengrab" /></a>Screen grabA screen grab from a blueprint found by Playboy editorial staff.</div></div></div>Earlier this week <a href="http://www.playboy.com/articles/tunnels-to-celebrity-homes-playboy-mansion" target="_blank">Playboy published</a> vintage photos of an excavation project along with a blueprint showing a series of tunnels connecting the infamous residence with various celebrity homes in the surrounding area.According to the article, when asked about the photos of the construction site the new Playboy Mansion general manager reportedly said, "that's probably when they built the tunnels in the 70s." <div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image"><a title_source="Screen grab" title_caption="A screen grab from a blueprint found by Playboy editorial staff." class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/551b40856da8112c2584d431-960/tunnels playboy.png"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/551b40856da8112c2584d431-1080-500/tunnels playboy.png" border="0" alt="tunnels playboy" /></a>Screen grabA screen grab from a blueprint found by Playboy editorial staff.</div></div></div>A closer look at the blueprint shows that there were plans to dig tunnels to the the homes of "Mr J. Nicholson," "Mr W. Beatty," "Mr K. Douglas," and "Mr J. Caan."<div class="thirdPar"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/551b3d546da8111a1a84d430-840-496/playboy tunnel.png" border="0" alt="playboy tunnel">Screen grabScreen grab of a Polaroid picture of a construction site at the Playboy Mansion.</img></div></div></div>"We'll go ahead and assume they're talking about Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Kirk Douglas and James Caan - all of whom lived near the Playboy Mansion during the late 1970s and early 1980s," <a href="http://www.playboy.com/articles/tunnels-to-celebrity-homes-playboy-mansion" target="_blank">Playboy reported</a>.<div class="thirdPar">According to the article, the partial tunnels were closed up in 1989 when Hugh Hefner married then-Playmate Kimberley Conrad.</div>Playboy reached out to the publicity representatives for Nicholson, Caan, Douglas, and Beatty, and has yet to receive a comment.<h3>Here's a closer look at the blueprints:</h3><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image"><a title_source="Screen grab/Amanda Macias/Business Insider" title_caption="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/551b446cecad04a243f7348e-960/skitch-8.png"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/551b446cecad04a243f7348e-980-659/skitch-8.png" border="0" alt="skitch playboy mansion blueprint" /></a>Screen grab/Amanda Macias/Business Insider</div></div></div><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image"><a title_source="Screen grab/Amanda Macias/Business Insider" title_caption="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/551b45c8ecad04e449f7348e-960/beatty skitch.png"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/551b45c8ecad04e449f7348e-840-501/beatty skitch.png" border="0" alt="beatty skitch playboy" /></a>Screen grab/Amanda Macias/Business Insider</div></div></div>And here's a recent look at the Playboy Mansion:<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/551bcdfd6da811c973b35c03-1200-858/rtr3pduu.jpg" border="0" alt="playboy mansion">REUTERS/Kevork DjansezianKennedy Summers, 27, the 2014 Playboy Playmate of the Year, poses next to a Mini John Cooper Works Roadster at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles, California May 15, 2014.</img></div></div></div></div> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/cooper-hefner-tours-playboy-mansion-son-playmate-2015-3">We went on a tour of the Playboy Mansion with Hugh Hefner's son - and it was not what we expected</a></h3> <div> <div> <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="RsZWVlcTrzFjfbCRyBxcxcI8zaEt3dyB" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> <script> if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; } RunFunctions.push(function() { var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'RsZWVlcTrzFjfbCRyBxcxcI8zaEt3dyB',{ autoplay: 'false' }); }); </script> <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div> </div> <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script> </div>

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