fatal attraction

Michael Douglas, star of “Romancing the Stone,” “Fatal Attraction,” “The American President” and so much more, is not the actor one would think of as first in line to play portly, balding man on the money Benjamin Franklin, but he has nevertheless done just that.

On Tuesday's episode of "Finding Your Roots," the "Fatal Attraction" and "Basic Instinct" actor traces his paternal roots back 200 years to a part of Belarus when it was part of the Russian territory the Pale of Settlement.

It probably wasn’t smart, but it was like a fatal attraction.

In this season’s get-together, Uche confronts Lydia and states his wild accusations to her face, accusing her of stalking him on Instagram before “following” him onto the show as if they’re co-starring in a “Fatal Attraction” reboot.

For the past two seasons, however, Longworth has been considering the era of when sex and sexuality were so saturated in mainstream popular culture that strings of films like "Fatal Attraction," "Pretty Woman" and "Showgirls" could convey a shifting, excited, anxious, unpredictable and uncertain feeling about sex, power and capital in the country.