With Halloween just a day away, Starpulse writer Kris King is reaching the final stages of his horror movie marathon. This week Kris gets cozy with a Good Guy doll with a "Child's Play" double feature, stands guard at the gates of Hell

TORONTO (AP) - Michael Douglas won an Academy Award as a ruthless man with a nose for stock-market gold in ''Wall Street.'' Now he's a lovable kook sniffing after mythical Spanish treasure in ''King of California,'' a shaggy-dog tale that marks a return to independent filmmaking for the star of such studio hits as ''Fatal Attraction'' and ''Basic Instinct.''

Movie star Michael Douglas has returned to his youth to teach his seven-year-old son how to waterski. The Sentinel actor spent the summer giving Dylan lessons on a lake he owns in Canada.

No Stranger to the pages of Maxim, Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria is this week's 'Maxim Hot 100' girl! Sure, the pint-sized hottie just got hitched to the World Champion San Antonio Spurs' guard Tony Parker, but that doesn't mean we can't look! Head on over to Maxim's Eva Longoria page to check her out!

Kiefer Sutherland was in complete awe of Michael Douglas when they worked together on new movie The Sentinel and insists there were days when he was terrified of the veteran star. The star held Douglas in high esteem ever since he produced Flatliners, in which Sutherland starred, and was excited about working with him again.

Eva Longoria insists she will only star in feature films when her time on hit TV drama Desperate Housewives comes to an end. The 31-year-old, who plays sexy Gabrielle Solis on the show, made her mainstream movie debut opposite Michael Douglas in The Sentinel earlier this year.

A man who has devoted himself to serving the leader of the free world is accused of plotting against him in The Sentinel, starring Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, and Eva Longoria. Also on DVD: Take the Lead with Antonio Banderas, Friends With Money starring Jennifer Aniston and Akeelah & the Bee with Laurence Fishburne.

Veteran actor Michael Douglas found shooting The Sentinel "humiliating" because he couldn't keep up physically with his younger co-stars. Kiefer Sutherland and Eva Longoria left the 61-year-old trailing during the shoot last year, and he confesses he felt his age.

Eva Longoria has hailed Catherine Zeta-Jones as her acting icon - despite admitting her knowledge of the Welsh star is limited. The pair, who recently met on the set of action movie The Sentinel, have since formed a close acquaintance, but Longoria confesses her ignorance caused initial embarrassment.

Michael Douglas has come under fire from the Secret Service agent who saved President Ronald Reagan during a 1981 assassination attempt. Tim McCarthy, who took a bullet in the gut, is furious Douglas' thinly disguised character in action movie The Sentinel portrays him as a two-timing cheat, rather than a happily married national hero.