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No./ 5 So long to a true Hollywood legend

KIRK DOUGLAS HAS an over-friendly Labrador. Your reporter knows this because he is being pinned to the sofa by it. “Good dog, Banshee. Nice dog,” chuckles its owner.

The stars of Old Hollywood, like their pooches, are indeed a breed apart. On an unassuming street in Beverly Hills, you’d be hard pushed to believe that a movie star, let alone one of the greatest ever to have graced the silver screen,dimple — the kind it’d take at least three cotton buds to get the fluff out of. You are, in short, in the presence of a legend.

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