Douglas was in Savannah to accept a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Savannah Film Festival. The award made him “feel like I need to check with my doctor and see if everything‘s OK,Ž the 63-yearold Academy Award winner joked in an interview Saturday with the Savannah Morning-News. “I‘m slowing down, but I‘m not ready to call it quits yet,Ž he said.
Douglas, a steady hitmaker in the 1980s and,90s with Wall Street and Basic Instinct, has delivered some box-office duds lately: Secret Service thriller The Sentinel, the action comedy The InLaws and the domestic drama It Runs in the Family, which co-stars his parents, Kirk and Diana Douglas, and his grown son, Cameron. His most recent role was sniffing after mythical Spanish treasure in King of California.