Upstaging every whippersnapper in sight (March 2 2011)
Issur Danielovitch the 94 year old actor better known as Kirk Douglas and earlier in his youth as Izzy Demsky managed to upstage many presenters and recipients and the host of the evening James Franco at the Oscar presentation ceremony as he presented the best supporting actress award. Danielovitch who legally changed his name to Douglas had suffered a stroke in 1996 which limited his movements but not his mental acuity, used his slurred speech and deliberately protracted the envelope-opening routine as a pretext to gain the greatest laugh of the ceremony, that had been marred by a generally agreed dismal performance by the host James Franco dressed in drag.
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