It’s “Fathers Week” at Now I’ve Heard Everything.
Today the story of one very famous father who wrote a novel about a famous father and a son who was struggling to find his own way out of the shadow of that fame.

But the legendary Kirk Douglas told me, in our 1992 interview, that he didn’t know how close the storyline came to his own reality.
Kirk Douglas’s novel “The Gift” was a multi-layered story, about survival in many ways”
So, what is fact, and what is fiction? In our 1992 conversation, Kirk Douglas was very clear how he felt about blurring the line”