Robert, thank you for your post. Because I learned from it that "Lonely Are The Brave" is likely to have a Blu-ray release, this coming Spring, and I've been hoping for a BD release for a very long time. That movie is quite a fine film, and Kirk Douglas has long been a favorite actor of mine...
Anthony, since you posed the question as to why I used the term somber to characterize the passing away of Kirk Douglas, from this mortal coil, please allow me to venture an answer.
I always feel that a person's death (unless the person was evil) has a somber quality to it, but in addition to...
Robert, yesterday. like so many film fans, I was saddened to learn of the passing of the terrific Kirk Douglas, a somber event that, unfortunately, many news services, either seemed to overlook, or to make all too brief a note of, probably because of the large amount of attention grabbing...