{"id":8987,"date":"2010-09-01T23:15:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T22:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=8987"},"modified":"2010-09-01T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T22:16:00","slug":"michael-douglas-on-david-letterman-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/09\/01\/michael-douglas-on-david-letterman-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Douglas on Letterman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z67gcf311KQ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8988\" title=\"Michael Douglas on Letterman\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Michael-Douglas-on-Letterman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Douglas\">Michael Douglas<\/a><\/strong> appeared on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/late_night\/late_show\/\">David Letterman<\/a> show last night and revealed that he is already undergoing treatment for throat cancer.<\/p>\n<p>In a fairly dramatic and moving interview he said that although it was at an intense stage, the cancer hadn&#8217;t spread and he had something like an &#8220;eighty per cent&#8221; chance of eventual recovery:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a stage four [cancer], which is intense. You want to be at stage one. The big thing you&#8217;re worried about is it spreading. I am head and neck, &#8230;nothing&#8217;s gone down. The expectations are good.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Watch an edited version of the interview here:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/z67gcf311KQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/z67gcf311KQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Douglas\">Michael Douglas<\/a> at Wikipedia<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/late_night\/late_show\/\">The David Letterman Show <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Douglas appeared on the David Letterman show last night and revealed that he is already undergoing treatment for throat cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,26],"tags":[972],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}