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"  Those of us who have lately been feeling pangs of nostalgia for Michael Douglas will no longer have to rush home by 6:30 to catch the two-time Oscar winner&amp;#039;s baritone announcing the NBC Nightly News. So grab an ice pick, make a rabbit stew\u2014whatever&amp;#039;s most appropriate to commemorate a cinematic renaissance for the 65-year-old Douglas, who seems to have spent much of the past decade in the company of a nine iron, his dazzling second wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, or their two young children, Dylan, 10, and Carys, 7. (Sadly, Douglas&amp;#039; 31-year-old son, Cameron, with exwife Diandra was recently imprisoned for dealing drugs.) If production gods smile upon us, Kirk&amp;#039;s eldest son will be seen as Liberace in a Steven Soderbergh\u2013directed biopic, a casting choice as bizarre as it is genius. But before donning the fur, he&amp;#039;ll be playing it greedier and scummier than ever as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, and this month he stars in an indie gem called Solitary Man, in which he portrays a man possessing the skills to coax women less than half his age into bed...and no, it&amp;#039;s not a documentary.  ELLE:  I&amp;#039;d imagine growing up Hollywood royalty made for a sexy youth. Did you ever experience a Mrs. Robinson scenario?Michael Douglas: Yes, I did. There were a couple friends of my mother&amp;#039;s when I was 16 and they were 30. I wouldn&amp;#039;t want to get any of them in trouble, but they&amp;#039;re probably all dead by now.  ELLE: Did your mother ever find out?MD:  She will now.  ELLE:  Your father portrays himself in his 1990 autobiography, The Ragman&amp;#039;s Son, as a guy who seemed to particularly enjoy seducing his costars, even while he was married to your mother. Did you ever bring a woman home and feel like your dad was perhaps working to impress her?MD:  I wouldn&amp;#039;t even dare bring one home with him around. Look, he&amp;#039;s been happily married for 55 years, so I don&amp;#039;t want to get into this in great depth, but he&amp;#039;s always been an outrageous flirt, and he takes no prisoners. In the years before I met Catherine, there were a couple ladies who met him to whom he gave his most impressive showing. But that&amp;#039;s healthy.  ELLE:  So you didn&amp;#039;t want to kill him?MD:  Nah. You can&amp;#039;t slay Spartacus.  ELLE:  In Fatal Attraction, you played a guy who is stalked by a psychotic jilted lover. What&amp;#039;s the closest experience you&amp;#039;ve had with a so-called bunny boiler?MD: I remember a nut job back there in college during those sexually free days of the &amp;#039;60s when you didn&amp;#039;t have to worry about a whole lot. Except maybe crabs. You never hear about crabs anymore, do you?  ELLE:  Not a ton, no.MD:  I remember one woman who&amp;#039;d been pursuing me, and I&amp;#039;d gone back home and was in bed with another lady. At an unbelievably inopportune moment, she popped out of the closet. Let&amp;#039;s just say that took care of the rest of the night.  ELLE:  So you drowned her in the bathtub?MD:  No, but I did change the locks.  ELLE:  What&amp;#039;s the most wounding thing a woman has ever said to you?MD: Getting no response whatsoever is probably the most demeaning. The French always had a way of ignoring you.  ELLE:  The French? It&amp;#039;s amazing to speak with a man able to speak authoritatively about them as a population.MD:  It&amp;#039;s a gross generalization, but when I was younger I found that French women were always saying, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m angry with you&amp;quot;\u2014but it was a dance where what they&amp;#039;d really like you to do is attack.  ELLE: You&amp;#039;ve long said that British tabloids fabricated a supposed sex addiction in the &amp;#039;90s. Did being perceived as sexually insatiable really hurt you?MD:  It wasn&amp;#039;t a question of hurting. It just pissed me off. And the thing got enough play that it became a preconception that people had when they met me, just like growing up people had preconceptions because my father was a movie star.  ELLE: Would you be comfortable if the world knew your number of sexual partners?MD: Let&amp;#039;s just say I wouldn&amp;#039;t pull a Charlie Manson and carve it into my forehead.  ELLE: If you could go back and have a do-over on any event that happened with a woman, what would it be?MD: When I was working on pictures with my father, there were a couple leading ladies to whom I wish I&amp;#039;d expressed how I felt rather than being too cool or too shy. There was this beautiful Austrian actress named Senta Berger, who&amp;#039;s probably in her seventies. I wish I&amp;#039;d just opened my mouth.  ELLE: You apparently overcame that shyness. When you met your wife in 1998, you told her, &amp;quot;I want to father your children.&amp;quot; I can&amp;#039;t imagine the confidence it would take to unleash that one.MD: That&amp;#039;s not a line I&amp;#039;d used before, but I don&amp;#039;t know if I&amp;#039;d ever been so inebriated on a first date. Also, I had seen some quote about her liking older men that gave me the confidence to approach her.  ELLE: Then, for nearly a year, you saw each other and shared nary a kiss. Where did you find the patience and self-control?MD: I was being such a ridiculous gentleman. Plus, we&amp;#039;d see each other only sporadically over that year, and it always seemed like her brother would be meeting us at the end of a date. I saw it as a polite way for her to keep things neutral.  ELLE: Imagine that for your tenth wedding anniversary, your wife tells you to go off and enjoy a night with a famous person of your choice. Whom would you choose?MD: Boy oh boy. I&amp;#039;ve always liked Tina Turner.  ELLE: Are you just saying Tina Turner because it won&amp;#039;t get you in trouble?MD: Possibly.  ELLE: If you returned the gift to your wife, whom do you imagine she&amp;#039;d go for?MD: Sarkozy would be pretty interesting.  ELLE: In Solitary Man, you play a fiftysomething whose stock come-on to much younger women is that as an older man, he&amp;#039;s gifted in ways no 18-year-old is. You&amp;#039;re 65. Is there truth to this come-on?MD: Yeah, sure. I think so.  ELLE: How so? Please, could you tell me?MD: You mean tell you orally. Orally, I could try, yeah. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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