Michael Douglas - Douglas Backs Global Communication Effort

Hollywood actor MICHAEL DOUGLAS is backing a new initiative to encourage children around the world to communicate via videoconferencing systems.

Douglas, who has two young children with his wife and TRAFFIC co-star CATHERINE ZETA-JONES, believes the Global Nomads Group scheme will lessen the prejudice youngsters may have towards other countries.

He says, "It's a great idea: using video-conferencing to link kids around the world. They come in contact with other cultures that may have been demonised or that may demonise the US. I think it helps everybody come together.

"I'm a newspaper junkie. The first thing in the morning I real the local paper in Bermuda. (My children and I) look through pictures and talk about things I'm reading."