Asking Michael Douglas about farts wasn’t on my personal bucket list, but sometimes these opportunities just fall in your lap. The steely icon with the nail-file voice is (perhaps surprisingly) playing Benjamin Franklin in the new Apple TV+ series, Franklin, based on Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff’s 2006 biography about the founding father’s trip to France in 1776 to negotiate an unlikely alliance between a budding republic and the ancien régime. The arranging publicist requested questions... Read this story
