# Michael Douglas, you are a dink **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 6, 2002, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-douglas-you-are-a-dink/122535 "2002-08-06T03:01:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-douglas-you-are-a-dink/122535/1 "2002-08-06T03:01:54Z")
It could have been a win-win for everybody. You and your wife get 20 million pounds (the British money kind); I get to see Catherine Zeta-Jones in Victoria’s Secret stuff. [But noooooooooooo…](http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30500-12066087,00.html) Fucker. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-douglas-you-are-a-dink/122535/2 "2002-08-06T03:05:55Z")
Urge to kill rising… ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-douglas-you-are-a-dink/122535/3 "2002-08-06T03:27:23Z")
Good Grief, Michael. Insecure much? We get to look at her in undies, but you get to undress her with your teeth, if you want… Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-douglas-you-are-a-dink/122535/4 "2002-08-06T03:32:01Z")
Hasn’t she been naked or near naked in more than one of her movies, anyway? And what’s up with _not allowing_ your wife to do something when it wouldn’t involve her taking off her clothes – he put the kibosh on her **designing** a line of lingerie. What kind of sense does that make? The man is a (checking to see if this is the Pit, yes, it is, okay, cool) massive tool. ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-douglas-you-are-a-dink/122535/5 "2002-08-06T03:42:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*Hasn’t she been naked or near naked in more than one of her movies, anyway? \*\* Not any I know of. I’ve searched. Painstakingly. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-douglas-you-are-a-dink/122535/6 "2002-08-06T04:05:46Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ve searched. Painstakingly. And you missed her very first movie? _Les Mille et une nuits_ (alternatively called _1001 Nights_ or _Sheherazade_ in English). It was released in 1990. ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-douglas-you-are-a-dink/122535/7 "2002-08-06T04:09:13Z")
Things are looking up. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-douglas-you-are-a-dink/122535/8 "2002-08-06T12:57:03Z")
I second **tomndebb** ’s recommendation. The views are neither long nor explicit, but they’re views nonetheless. I give it a big, err…, thumb, up. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-douglas-you-are-a-dink/122535/9 "2002-08-06T13:03:56Z")
[Blue Juice](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0112537) has a nice sex scene which includes whipped cream and Dr. Who’s son 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-douglas-you-are-a-dink/122535/10 "2002-08-06T13:17:44Z")
Er, you do know you’re commenting on a news story that originated in the “Daily Star”? Massive pinches of salt required all round. More likely facts: Company offers money, amount undisclosed but not anything like that quoted. She turns it down, not interested, not enough. The rest is a product of a tabloid journalist’s fevered imagination. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-douglas-you-are-a-dink/122535/11 "2002-08-06T14:06:42Z")
Well, I don’t think d.i.n.k. is the correct term (double income, no kids). But I guess when you’re closing in on Lazarus and you are married to one of the ten most beautiful women I’ve ever seen and your body is developing an ever-increasing tolerance/resistance to Viagra, you have to guard what is your’s in every way you can. Of course, as **Futile** noted, celebrity news is often as fictional as the characters the actors portray. ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-douglas-you-are-a-dink/122535/12 "2002-08-06T14:23:48Z")
Maybe he’s holding out for someone to pay him to keep his clothes on instead. ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-douglas-you-are-a-dink/122535/13 "2002-08-06T15:17:29Z")
I don’t get it. On the one hand, Douglas is a sniveling, jealous, loser, who’ll apparently stop at nothing to keep his lover clad. But on the other, the people before her had no problem modeling the “raunchy lingerie”. Can’t really win, can ya? Tight wad if you don’t, sleaze if you do. ---
**Author:** ![Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoundrel_Swanswater)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-douglas-you-are-a-dink/122535/14 "2002-08-06T15:21:09Z")
I just don’t get it : what is the big frikkin’ deal with Zeta Jones. I don’t find her the least bit attractive. Hasn’t anyone noticed the woman has a bloody moustache in Zorro !?!?!? Is it just me ? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-douglas-you-are-a-dink/122535/15 "2002-08-06T15:37:53Z")
Nope, I find her less attractive than a loose piece of moss. I don’t mean to rain on anybody’s boner but she and Douglas, Griffith and Banderas all typify what turns me off about Hollywood today. Gaudy egos brought on by shoddy acting and mediocre looks. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-douglas-you-are-a-dink/122535/16 "2002-08-06T15:40:42Z")
20,000,000 pounds? Michael, you’re a putz. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-douglas-you-are-a-dink/122535/17 "2002-08-06T21:58:50Z")
FWIW, I’m a heterosexual woman and I think she’s beautiful. Can’t blame Mike for being insecure. One day Zeta-Jones is going to realize she’s married to a skanky old man with a wattle and run screaming out of there… ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-douglas-you-are-a-dink/122535/18 "2002-08-07T14:21:11Z")
but he starred in Fatal Attraction, and Basic Instinct… so what is good for the goose, is not good for the gander? Jerk. BTW, Mrs. Prefect and I would both leave each other for Cathy. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-douglas-you-are-a-dink/122535/19 "2002-08-07T18:39:50Z")
Uh, does _this_ line mean what I think it does? > [@](#): > > Catherine has agreed to play a secret agent in a new spy blockbuster Flint. That they’re going to be dusting off the old James Coburn movies that were rip-offs of the Bond films and remaking them? If true, then I’m glad she didn’t get the £20 million, but Mike’s still a putz anyway. (_Basic Instinct_ sucked as has most of Mike’s work since _Wall Street_.) ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-douglas-you-are-a-dink/122535/20 "2002-08-07T19:44:48Z")
He doesn’t want us to see her in her bloomers, yet in the photo accompanying the article we can see 50% of her breasts. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-douglas-you-are-a-dink/122535.md?page=2)