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. Photo of Chris ODonnell and Gene Hackman in scene from movie The Chamber, opening this week
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Hank Azaria steals The Birdcage, one broad pratfall at a time
Despite its quartet of stars, The Birdcage is ultimately stolen out from under Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, and Dianne Wiest by co-star Hank Azaria, whose gift for voices���a prodigious talent put to work for��.
UNCOMMON VALUE, WITH GENE HACKMAN
UNCOMMON VALOR is about a Vietnam veteran, Col. Jason Rhodes. whose son has been missing in action for more than 10 years and who returns to Southeast Asia in hopes of rescuing the boy. Even though the colonel is played by an actor as intelligently resourceful as Gene Hackman, and even though the plot sounds as if it might have some psychological dimension to it, Uncommon Valor is mostly an action movie, and not much more. Uncommon Valor, which opens today at the Embassy Twin and other theaters, was directed by Ted Kotcheff, who has progressed from The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and Fun With Dick and Jane to recent works (including North Dallas Forty and First Blood) in a more he-man vein. If anything, Uncommon Valor bears more of the stamp of his co-producer, John Milius (Dillinger, Conan the Barbarian), than it does of Mr. Kotcheff. The characters are bold and brawny, and their conversation, while emphatically patriotic and gung-ho, is seldom very memorable, except for its lively euphemisms. What you have is instant rag doll, someone says, for instance, explaining in a training session how to immobilize an enemy with one neat blow to the brain stem.
Please Do Not Feed or Annoy the Woebegone Prodigies
The Royal Tenenbaums was shown as part of this years New York Film Festival. Following are excerpts from A. O. Scotts review, which appeared in The New York Times on Oct. 5; the full text is available at nytimes.com. The film opens today in Manhattan. Wes Andersons Rushmore was the story of a brilliant, annoying schoolboy blundering into the world of adult emotions. Max J. Fisher, the hero of that film, was not only precocious, but also enchanted by the idea of his own precocity.. Excerpts from A O Scotts Oct 5 review of movie The Royal Tenenbaums, shown as part of New York Film Festival and now in commercial release; photo of star Gene Hackman (M)
Casting Nebraska Via Radio and Other Producing Secrets
. The “Nebraska” production sought nonprofessionals via announcements on rural radio, it was revealed at a Producers Guild panel. At the same session, Woody Allen’s longtime producer explained how he figures out where to set his films: where he can stand to live for the 10 weeks of filming.
GENE HACKMAN Details The Spousal Connection | FishbowlNY
At age 84, Gene Hackman is happily writing away in Santa Fe. The actor-turned-painter-turned-novelist doesnt do very many interviews, but Yahoo Entertainment features editor Richard Rushfield was lucky enough to land a��.
The 50-Year Hoffman-Hackman History
LONG before theyd made the acquaintance of Warren Beatty and Mike Nichols, and long before theyd won enough Oscars and Golden Globes to play a nice game of chess, Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman were a mismatched pair of struggling, idealistic actors who found solace in each others company -- first in classes at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1956, where they played bongos on the roof, and then later in a cold-water flat in Manhattan, where Mr. Hoffman crashed in Mr. Hackmans kitchen until he was banished to the couch of some unwitting dupe named Robert Duvall. Though Mr. Hackman and Mr. Hoffman (now 73 and 66, respectively) have been friends for nearly half a century, they never worked on a film together until Runaway Jury, the latest installment in the John Grisham franchise. On a recent publicity stop in New Orleans for the film, opening Friday, the two men met with the writer Jennifer Senior to reminisce, gossip and reveal Marlon Brandos secret weapon. JENNIFER SENIOR -- When you two met at the Pasadena Playhouse, there must have been something about each other you intuited immediately. What was it?. Actors Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman have dialogue about their long friendship and separate careers; they are now working on Runaway Jury, first film in which they appear together; photos (M)
Gene Hackman Is Alive and Well, So Stop Spreading.
Despite its quartet of stars, The Birdcage is ultimately stolen out from under Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, and Dianne Wiest by co-star Hank Azaria, whose gift for voices���a prodigious talent put to work for. In addition to��.
No, Gene Hackman Is Not Dead
The confusion was sparked by a headline that ran on the website Tuesday stating ���The Greatest Living American Actor at 85: Gene Hackman Is Gone But Still in Charge,��� spurring rumors that Hackman, who is in fact 84-years-old, had died. The headline has .
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The French Connection ***** (1971, Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi) ��� Classic Movie Review 2040. 1. Director William Friedkins legendary multi-Oscar-winning 1971 movie is��.
Fin: Tweets make strange bedfellows- and stolen jokes; GENE HACKMAN is still.
Kind of a funny social media moment Tuesday night: After the news broke about Michelle Obama appearing in Saudi Arabia sans headscarf, I made a joke on Facebook about how its ���not bad for the wife of a secret Muslim.��� My old friend Karol, a relatively .
Midwinter Ritual: When Good Actor Meets Bad Movie
The Oscars may be approaching, but in the meantime, audiences can witness another, less-heralded seasonal ritual: the spectacle of great actors appearing in bad movies.
The Celebrity Author Who Sat and Wrote
Its become common to assume that celebrity authors rarely write more than the autograph in their books. So even a longtime publisher like Esther Margolis of Newmarket Press paused when approached with a manuscript for her independent publishing house from the actor Gene Hackman and his co-author, Dan Lenihan, who had worked together in Santa Fe, N.M., for three years on Black Star Rising, a novel about early 1800s pirates and shipwrecks and the requisite wood-splintering storm.. Gene Hackman, the actor, comments on writing a novel, Black Star Rising, with Dan Lenihan, an underwater archeologist; photo (M)
Its A Hoax: Gene Hackman Is NOT Dead
A confusing award show speech, a misleading headline and a death-hoax Facebook page combined to make more than a million people believe Gene Hackman had passed away, when in fact the 84-year-old Oscar-winner is very much alive. One of those .
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Recuerdo perfectamente la primera vez que vi a Gene Hackman. Yo deb��a tener nueve o diez a��os y en la tele pusieron French Connection. Mi padre, un se��or moderadamente cin��filo, me dej�� verla a su lado. De aquel��.
GENE HACKMAN Airlifted to Hospital -- Hit By a Car in Florida.
Gene Hackman was airlifted to a trauma hospital in Florida today.. after the actor was hit by a car while riding his bike in the Florida Keys. TMZ has���
Despite Confusion, GENE HACKMAN Is Alive and Well, Says.
(NEW YORK) -- After a Grantland article ran Tuesday with the headline The Greatest Living American Actor at 85: Gene Hackman Is Gone But Still in Charge,
OTD January 30 - Gene Hackman
1930: Actor Gene Hackman, best known for movies such as Bonnie and Clyde, The French Connection, The Poseidon Adventure, The Conversation, Mississippi Burning and Unforgiven, is born in San Bernardino, California. Hackman has been .
6 Insane Meltdowns by Actors on Set of Their Greatest Movies
Gene Hackman Was an Asshole on The Royal Tenenbaums Set. Touchstone Pictures. The Royal Tenenbaums was the film that cemented symmetry-obsessed director Wes Andersons career after first getting the attention of��.
HOLLYWOODS UNCOMMON EVERYMAN
LEAD: GENE HACKMAN IS BEING PURSUED. A man has been haranguing him, calling on the phone, leaving letters in his apartment-house lobby. He wants Hackman as his ally, a comrade to help thwart a plot, something inscrutable about Hollywood borrowers. Hackman has been stalked before. There was the quick-draw artist with the loaded revolvers in Alamagordo, N.M.; the Las Vegas drunk brandishing a.357 magnum; the rifleman in Seattle who left his gun case at the casts hotel, but this time, the interloper is unusually persistent.
Gene Hackman, Snoop
WE WERE having a conversation about Conversation the other day with Francis Ford Coppola. Conversation is the title of an original thriller, and Coppola is its author.
Gene Hackman and Sean Connery NOT Dead! Kevin. - Mstarz
Beloved Hollywood actors Gene Hackman and Sean Connery are NOT dead! In a recent speech at the Critics Choice Movie Awards, Kevin Costner paid heartfelt tribute to the two legendary film stars. But remember, both are��.
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You usually play tough, gunslinging, macho characters, but women find you very sexy. Why not romantic leads? Theyre just not offered. And at my age, I suppose, there are just not that many pictures of a romantic quality. Sean Connery still gets them. Well, Sean Connery gets most of them. I dont know why I dont. I would love to do that, and not because of the interest of women. Those kind of movies, many times, are very intense. And thats the ideal thing for an actor. I love that kind of drama-packed intense scene. And interrelationships are wonderful for actors. So I would love to, but maybe its just not in the cards. Well, maybe if we print this --.
A Whole New Meaning For Executive Privilege
Luther Whitney, the courtly old burglar played by Clint Eastwood in his new thriller, Absolute Power, has a mansion to rob. His plans have been meticulously laid. But just as Luther is in the midst of raiding a walk-in vault filled with loot, the heist is interrupted and Luther is trapped behind a one-way mirror. What he glimpses in an adjoining bedroom is really something to squint about. Wearing his best look of stony outrage, Mr. Eastwoods Luther watches a tryst turn deadly. A beautiful young trophy wife is about to go to bed with her husbands friend, who happens to be President of the United States. Her husband, an elderly philanthropist who helped to get the President elected, is conveniently in Barbados. The First Lady is in Asia helping the poor.. Janet Maslin reviews film Absolute Power directed by Clint Eastwood, who also stars along with Gene Hackman; photo (S)
Hollywoods Slow Awakening to Holocausts Horrors
Hollywood did not come through for General Eisenhower. Shortly after V-E day in 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of Allied forces in Europe in World War II and future president of the United States, flew a dozen Hollywood moguls to Germany to see Nazi atrocities for themselves. They saw the ovens, says the film director Vincent Sherman in Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust. They saw the piles of dead, which had not been buried. The idea, says Neal Gabler, the cultural historian, was that they should bear witness through their films. But, as this documentary points out, it was only in 1964, almost two decades later, that a major American film even tried to recreate the horrors of the camps. That was The Pawnbroker, Sidney Lumets drama about a Holocaust survivor (Rod Steiger) trying to repress the memories of his time as a prisoner of the Nazis. And the scenes, at least those shown in Imaginary Witness, are surprisingly mild.. Anita Gates reviews made-for-TV documentary movie Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust, directed by Vincent Sherman and narrated by Gene Hackman; photo (M)
Notes on People
The $25,000 Enrico Fermi Award was presented yesterday to Dr. William L. Russell, an international authority on the genetic effects of radiation in mammals. Dr. Russell was born in England but became an American citizen in 1936, shortly after receiving his doctorate from the University of Chicago. The Fermi Award dates to 1954 when Enrico Fermi, leader of the group of scientists who achieved the first self-sustained, controlled nuclear chain reaction, received the honor. The. Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako listen to 10 winning entries in traditional Imperial poetry contest; Kyoko Nakano is winner (S)
Despite Confusion, Gene Hackman Is Alive and Well, Says Rep
Photo by Vera Anderson/WireImage(NEW YORK) ��� After a Grantland article ran Tuesday with the headline ���The Greatest Living American Actor at 85: Gene Hackman Is Gone But Still in Charge,��� there was concern that the 84-year-old had died. If you are .
I Miss Gene Hackman - Unreality
Nope. Gene Hackman hasnt passed away or anything like that but dont you think the world could use a little more of him? Its like every single time I see a United Airlines ad or Oppenheimer Funds commercial I truly miss the guy. Granted I��.
Gene Hackmans rep confirm hes alive and well
After a Grantland recently published an article with the headline The Greatest Living American Actor at 85: Gene Hackman Is Gone but Still in Charge, there was concern that the 84-year-old had died, ABC News reported. The title has since changed from .
GENE HACKMAN Not Dead: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
The hoax was sparked by a Grantland article entitled, ���The Greatest Living Actor at 85: Gene Hackman Is Gone But Still in Charge.��� The word ���gone��� was later replaced with the word ���retired.��� But that didnt stop some avid tweeters from running wild.
GENE HACKMAN -- Smacks Homeless Guy Who Dropped C.
Gene Hackman pimp-slapped a homeless man who physically threatened the actor and his wife outside a New Mexico restaurant. TMZ has learned. Law���
GENE HACKMAN Isnt Dead -- Just Retired; Celebrity Death Rumor Started By.
Its not a celebrity death hoax, but it had much the same effect: a headline that many readers misunderstood lead to the rumor that Gene Hackman had died this week. When other celebrities began wishing the actor peaceful eternal rest, the rumor quickly.
Have Moviegoers Reached a Verdict?
IN Runaway Jury, opening next month, Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, John Cusack and Rachel Weisz are involved in the trial of a gun manufacturer. The film is less about the trial, though, than about the battle between a corrupt juror and a hard-nosed jury consultant. Thats the way it goes in courtroom movies. Either all the action takes place in the jury room or moviegoers are kept completely in the dark about deliberations. You cant blame the screenwriters; they have every reason to keep that part of the drama a mystery. Jurors shouldnt feel unduly unimportant, though. In a lot fo trial films, including some of these, all available on video, its not about the defendants either. Sometimes the films big stars are playing the lawyers. Naturally. ANITA GATES. Chart, in light of upcoming movie Runaway Jury starring Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman, of earlier courtroom movies; photo (M)
The Best Sports Movies Bracket: Elite 8!
And while Gene Hackman and the Indiana boys might be the strongest squad in the whole bracket, weve always known they had a relatively easy region. Theres been nothing to indicate that they wont waltz into the Final Four, at which point Hackman will .
#156. Gene Hackman | Cinema Connections
#156. Gene Hackman. You can often tell a lot about an actor by the movies hes in. If they only appear in serious, ���Oscar bait��� films, you wonder if they ever have any fun while acting. Those actors who can transcend across��.
Mitt Romney Wants GENE HACKMAN To Play Him In A Movie.
They dont really look alike, but thats who Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said on a taping of Live! With Kelly And Michael today hed like to see play him on the big screen. After noting that Hackman, who has��.
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LEAD: Gene Hackman may have narrowly avoided a heart attack when he checked into a hospital in Portland, Ore., complaining of chest pains. We think we got him just in the nick of time, DR. HERBERT SEMLER said after he treated the actor for partial blockage of a coronary blood vessel at St. Vincent Hospital and Medical
Whats Your Favorite Movie Chase Scene?
. A new film about a bike messenger racing against time in New York City raises the question: What would you nominate for greatest movie chase scene ever?
Francis Ford Coppola, Harrison Ford, and Gene Hackman.
Although Gene Hackmans character is a man in the surveillance business, The Conversation (1974) is about a Nixon-level invasion of privacy, which leads to paranoia and ten rounds with the human conscience. The movie��.
Gene Hackman solves The French Connection | Falcon at.
The French Connection is rightfully known as an Oscar-winning thriller, a movie where Gene Hackman stomps a new mudhole in some prissy French guys who try to sell drugs in his city. This movie begins with a slow��.
GENE HACKMAN and Sean Connery NOT Dead! Kevin Costners Confusing Critics.
Beloved Hollywood actors Gene Hackman and Sean Connery are NOT dead! In a recent speech at the Critics Choice Movie Awards, Kevin Costner paid heartfelt tribute to the two legendary film stars. But remember, both are still living! Like Us on Facebook .
Gene Hackman, Gay Rights and Republicans
Gene Hackmans 85th birthday is being seized as an opportunity to engage in celluloid nostalgia, and with good reason: few actors have been able to help us highlight societal shifts as much as Hackman has. Hackman specialized in playing morally.
Tausendsassa Gene Hackman wird 85
Denn w��rde Gene Hackman noch einmal vor die Kamera treten, w��rde er ja den vielen, die seine Schauspielkunst zu sch��tzen wissen, einen Wunsch erf��llen. Diese Kunst, alles so unangestrengt, so einfach und normal aussehen zu lassen, wer beherrscht .
Gene Hackman Is Alive and Well, So Stop Spreading Rumors About Him, OK?!
A Grantland article originally entitled The Greatest Living American Actor at 85: Gene Hackman Is Gone But Still in Charge. While it clearly says living in the headline, the gone seemed to have caused confusion for those Internet users who are.
The French Connection Car Chase Was Dangerous And Life-Threatening
The film, directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider, was based on the true story of NYPD detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso. The famous scene features Jimmy Doyle (Hackman) giving chase in a 1971 Pontiac LeMans .
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Hucksters Head For Victory
Whos your Hoosier team? Hickory? Hooray! The Hickory Hucksters are a cinch to win the 1952 Indiana high school basketball championship next month, and anyone who doubts it is welcome to come to Butler Universitys Hinkle Field House in Indianapolis and cheer them on. Hickory may be a tiny school, its coach may be an overbearing has-been, and the tournament may seem to be 33 years late, but when the Hucksters take on South Bend Central in the final, the outcome wont be in doubt. Its right there in the script of Hoosiers, a movie now being filmed, in which Gene Hackman stars as a discredited former college coach who takes over a small-town high school team and guides it to the state title.
Immersed in War (in Bosnia for a Change) With Gusto and Gadgetry
Behind Enemy Lines, a taut wartime rescue thriller that sustains a relentless buzzing energy, feels very much of the moment, even though it is set in the Balkans and not in Afghanistan. Directed by John Moore, from a screenplay by David Veloz and Zak Penn, it provides about as intense an immersion in military ambience as a Hollywood movie could hope to provide in just over 90 minutes. Even with its occasional lapses into melodramatic fakery, its cool, machine-tooled mixture of jargon, gadgetry, offhanded machismo and war-is-hell imagery feels far more authentic than in most Hollywood war movies.. immersed in war (In Bosnia for a change) with gustoï
Bill OReilly: Happening on BillOReilly.com - Gene Hackman.
We celebrate New Years Eve with great American actor Gene Hackman, who counts the NYE action adventure film The Poseidon Adventure among his many classic movies. Go: Great American News Quiz��.
GENE HACKMAN The Victim Of Internet Death Hoax
The news of the death of Gene Hackman has been greatly exaggerated, it would seem. Movie legend Hackman, now 84, retired from making movies in 2004, and lives with his wife Betsy in Sante Fe, New Mexico. But still, rumours emerged earlier this week .