Kirk Douglas Snubbed By Hometown High School, Actor Excluded From Hall Of Fame
He has won accolades as an actor, producer, director, author and a Hollywood legend. Yet, he is "not among the inaugural inductees at his hometown high school's hall of fame", according to Fox News.
Born Issur Danielovitch in 1916, at New York's Amsterdam city to immigrant Jewish parents who were immigrants from Eastern Europe, he took over the avatar of Kirk Douglas to start his acting career.
His killer handsome looks include a cleft-chin and steely eyes. He has three Academy Award nominations and diverse roles from a boxer in "Champion" to a rebellious slave in "Spartacus."
Strangely, he was left out of his alma mater's hall of fame that was opened this year. There were other star athletes such as Josh Beekman, earlier from the Chicago Bears; Justice Smith, who graduated as Section II's "all-time leading rusher", and the Cetnars, with dad Rick and son Todd, who are local basketball superstars.
The explanation was that the nominees for the famed hall were selected by the community. The 98-year-old actor's name, though, "never came up," according to HNGN.
