No One Ever Thinks They’re The Bad Guy, Especially The Bad Guy
<p>Michael Douglas spent the late 80s and early 90s playing flawed white men. In the 1989 black comedy <em>The War Of The Roses</em>, he was a wealthy, self-centered middle-aged yuppie divorcing his equally loathsome wife. He’s a jerk, but so is she. Kathleen Turner co-starred as his spouse, which was their third movie together.</p>
<p>Turner is the opposite of Douglas as an actor. Sultry. Cool. Glamourous. Certain and formidable.</p>
<p>Douglas won an Oscar for portraying a money-grubbing multi-millionaire rogue in the slicked-back hair stock broker drama <em>Wall Street</em>. That same year, 1987, Douglas played a husband who cheats on his wife and is stalked by the woman he seduced in the moralistic thriller <em>Fatal Attraction</em>.</p>
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