I like Michael Douglas. For this and for playing Liberace and also Matt Damon for playing his boyfriend. I think that's admirable of the two of them.
I saw Douglas on telly at a Davos summit talking about nuclear weapons. He was concerned about proliferation but was working within the constraints of being a semi-official US spokesman.
Snow was falling all around and it looked really pretty and very expensive and he kept pronouncing it nucular.
But I liked his message and the fact that he volunteered the fact that world leaders were only listening to him because he was a Hollywood superstar. That was okay, because if it meant they were listening to someone with something important and informed to say, we might be getting somewhere.
George Clooney says the same sort of thing. It would be nice if he could be more forthcoming on gay issues, but every little helps. I also liked Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie using the launch of World War Z to talk about breast cancer and the inequalities of health care in their country.
Mostly slebs are stupid. But sometimes they're not.
On another note: I've interviewed Douglas and he told me what a bloody despicable heel he was, cheating on his first wife with her best friend amongst countless other women. When I came to write it up I realised the gist of the piece was going to be: 'I used to be a horrible person, but I'm such a nice guy now.' That's clever.
My friend interviewed him about 10-15 years before. He invited her to come back to his suite later. She decided not to. She looks a lot like Catherine Zeta Jones, if Catherine Zeta Jones hadn't been in nappies then.