Michael Douglas New Role: Family Man

He's played everything from a Wall Street vulture to the president, but these days Michael Douglas is focusing on his favorite role father and husband.

"I've learned to kick back and be a family man," he says. "Since I married Catherine (Zeta-Jones), we've been raising a new family. I'm enjoying it immensely. And my priorities have changed enormously."

Since getting married in 2000, the two have had a son and daughter.

Douglas was in Savannah to accept a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Savannah Film Festival.

The award made him "feel like I need to check with my doctor and see if everything's OK," the 63-year-old Academy Award winner joked in an interview Saturday with the Savannah Morning-News.

"I'm slowing down, but I'm not ready to call it quits yet," he said.

Douglas, a steady hitmaker in the 1980s and '90s with "Fatal Attraction," "Wall Street" and "Basic Instinct," has delivered some box-office duds lately: Secret Service thriller "The Sentinel" the action comedy "The In-Laws" and the domestic drama "It Runs in the Family," which co-stars his parents, Kirk and Diana Douglas, and his grown son, Cameron.

His most recent role was a lovable kook sniffing after mythical Spanish treasure in "King of California."

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Douglas' Grown Son Faces Drug Charges

Michael Douglas' grown son, Cameron, has been ordered to stand trial on cocaine possession charges.

At a pretrial hearing Thursday, Superior Court Judge Joseph Lodge upheld charges of felony possession of a controlled substance and misdemeanor possession of a hypodermic needle filed against Cameron Morrell Douglas, 28, and a companion, Christopher Lane, 30.

Lodge added a charge of being under the influence of a controlled substance for Douglas, based on the testimony of a Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Deputy.

Both men are scheduled for arraignment Nov. 16.

Deputy James McKarrell, the only witness at the hearing, testified that on July 22, he and another deputy came across Douglas and Lane in a car near a Carpinteria motel and found a syringe on the floorboard with liquid cocaine in it.

The deputy testified that Lane claimed ownership of the syringe, and both men were arrested.

Douglas' attorney, Juan Huerta, said McKarrell failed to do his job by not testing the two men for sobriety.

Cameron Douglas appeared alongside his father and grandfather Kirk Douglas in the 2003 film "It Runs in the Family."

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