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Michael Douglas talks firing his dad, Kirk Douglas, from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 'It wasn't easy!'

Michael Douglas talks about firing Kirk Douglas from 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' and other stories from making the Oscar-winning movie

Movie-lovers have had 50 years to ponder if Jack Nicholson's Randle Patrick McMurphy is really insane or if he's just faking it — and, perhaps more importantly, if the entire world is nuts and the only sane ones are the people in institutions. A happy crew on the night of the Oscars, March 1976 - Michael Douglas, Milos Forman, Louise Fletcher, Jack Nicholson, and Saul Zaentz.Michael Montfort/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Finally, Saul said I'm not going to fight this anymore, so we're going to turn over, I think, three and a half million dollars to the University of Oregon, and we're going to create the Ken Kesey Chair in English Literature.

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