Kirk Douglas hams it up on the OSCARS 2011

Hollywood veteran made the award for best lead actress Melissa Leo for a great fighter, but the time is long overdue, because Douglas could not resist hamming it.

Who flirted with host Anne Hathaway, saying, "Wow, where were you when I was doing movies!?"

Douglas joked he co-presenter James Franco performance in grueling 127 hours - "You look a lot better out of the cave" - and pretended to fight with them for the possession of his walking stick.

With five candidates on the edge of their seats, won by providing the name of the winner, teasing the audience: "You know, I never forget that moment ..."

Backstage, Leo said: "He made us all more huge advantage because it dragged on, the more that I must be calm."

The star of Spartacus, the father of Michael Douglas, suffered a stroke in 1996 and had to learn to talk again with the help of a therapist. He said his recovery in a memoir, My stroke of luck.

"When you have a shot, you must speak slowly to understand. And I noticed that when I speak slowly, people listen. They think I'm about to say something important," he said.

In 1999, celebrated his recovery return to the diamond, playing a former boxer who suffers a stroke.

Douglas underwent a double knee replacement 88 years old and broke his foot during a fall in 2009 but remains very high.

Age 92, he appeared in a show of a man, before I forget. And it is the oldest blogger in the world of celebrities, regularly updating his MySpace account with words of wisdom.

Nominated for an Oscar three times - Champion (1950), The Bad and the Beautiful (1953) and Lust for Life (1957) - it was finally recognized by the Academy with an honorary Oscar in 1996 "for 50 years as a creative force and moral in the movie business. "