Dogged on disarmament, actor Michael Douglas earns UNICEF award

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Dogged on disarmament, actor Michael Douglas earns UNICEF award

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/dogged-disarmament-actor-michael-douglas-earns-unicef-award-010931814.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/wwLcr57CzZde7BVBOnQ_VA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-01-15T010931Z_1_CBREA0E038200_RTROPTP_2_FILM-GOLDENGLOBES.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Actor Douglas holds the Golden Globe Award he won as Best Actor, Miniseries or Movie, for his role in HBO's &quot;Behind the Candelabra&quot; at the HBO after party, after the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills" align="left" title="Actor Douglas holds the Golden Globe Award he won as Best Actor, Miniseries or Movie, for his role in HBO's &quot;Behind the Candelabra&quot; at the HBO after party, after the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills" border="0" /></a>By Mary Milliken BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas says his main philanthropic cause - nuclear disarmament - is not exactly the kind of &quot;touchy-feely&quot; issue that celebrities and their fans covet, and it can be awfully frustrating when it comes to progress. It's one, however, he has stuck with for years as a United Nations Messenger of Peace since 1998, and for that persistence he will be recognized on Tuesday night with the Danny Kaye Humanitarian Peace Award from the U.S. fund for UNICEF, the U.N. branch for children. &quot;I was born in 1944, one year before the first bomb went off, and I hope in my lifetime to see the elimination of the weapons,&quot; Douglas told Reuters ahead of UNICEF's Beverly Hills ball, with childhood friend Dena Kaye, the only daughter of the late comic actor and UNICEF's first ambassador, by his side. That he is being honored with the Danny Kaye award is especially meaningful, he said, because he knew Kaye as a child, admired his impact on children and can still recite rhymes from his films.</p><br clear="all"/>

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