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Did you hear that? The Pasadena Playhouse didn't think Gene Hackman would make it as an actor? Cancel my Rose Bowl tickets! Hackman proved himself to be one of the greatest actors of his generation, able to play heroes or villains. To demonstrate, I'm going to show you two clips. The first is of him as the heroic Popeye Doyle (for which he won an Academy Award) in 1971's The French Connection. The second is him as the villainous Lex Luthor in 1977's Superman. Watch:
I don't know. Hackman seems a bit safer to be around when he's the bad guy.
A great one. There are a lot of actors who smartly didn’t listen to their early critics.
ReplyDeleteAnd Mitchell, Hackman mentioned one of them: Dustin Hoffman!
DeleteYou were quicker off the mark than I expected. What a strange thing to happen when he was 95 years old.
ReplyDeleteAndrew, neither his wife nor his dog was 95 years old, so this is no ordinary demise by any means.
DeleteDid he ever give a bad performance? I don't think so.
ReplyDeleteIf he did, Debra, I haven't seen it.
DeleteThe last I heard on the news was they think he and his wife were dead for nine days before someone found them.
ReplyDeleteMike, I just read Hackman's pacemaker recorded a "last event" on Feb 17, whatever that means.
DeleteRIP to Gene and his Wife and his dog. I have been following this one Kirk, we all want to know what happened. He was a great actor for sure. Such a shame.
ReplyDeleteVery strange ending to his life, Ananka.
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