Gene Hackman, His Wife and One of His Dogs Found Dead at Their Santa Fe Home Under "Suspicious" Circumstances

Hackman was one of the actors I was thinking of when I mentioned a few months ago that we're going to start losing some of the greats.

He was 95.

Gene Hackman and wife's death investigated as 'suspicious' after door was found open, pills found
The deaths of Gene Hackman, his wife and one of their dogs is being investigated as "suspicious" by authorities who said on Thursday that the door to the couple's Santa Fe, New Mexico, home was "unsecured and opened," police wrote in an affidavit obtained by TMZ.
Authorities said the deaths were "suspicious enough in nature to require a thorough search and investigation" after also finding an open pill bottle and pills were also found scattered around the room where Hackman's wife, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, and the dog were discovered.

A couple of months ago I re-watched The Quick and the Dead. I only half-liked it when I first saw it, but I really appreciated it this time. Yeah Sharon Stone's face is like stationary driftwood as usual but every one else is terrific, including even Leonardo DiCaprio. He's great. So is Lance Henrickson, Keith David (bet you forgot he was in it) and Russel Crowe. Even Gary Sinise shows up.

Gene Hackman has one of his most Gene Hackman line-readings ever. The scene involves "Herod," the wealthy tyrant who rules an Old West town, hosting "The Lady" at a dinner in his big house. He wants to know why "Lady" came to this town and entered its annual shoot-out contest.

Posted by: Ace at 12:03 PM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 27, 2025 12:03 PM (e5NfL)

2 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at February 27, 2025 12:04 PM (GYt5+)

3 That movie is a regular favorite.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 27, 2025 12:04 PM (oT5db)

4 check the batteries on your CO monitors

Posted by: brak at February 27, 2025 12:04 PM (jGJov)

5 And this story is sadly lacking in any detail.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 27, 2025 12:04 PM (e5NfL)

6 1st

Posted by: blaster at February 27, 2025 12:04 PM (xhfG9)

7 Sounds like more than carbon monoxide if an open door and scattered pills were found.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 27, 2025 12:05 PM (qBdHI)

8 Family just came out to say they think it was carbon monoxide poisoning

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2025 12:05 PM (VE6XX)

9 He was great as the coach in The Replacements.

Perfect casting with him and Keanu as well actually

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 12:06 PM (t0Rmr)

10 So sad !

I enjoyed him in Heist, a Mamet film about con men, as well as Hackmans Royal Tanenbaum character .

Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2025 12:06 PM (Hkcdp)

11 Otisburg?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 27, 2025 12:06 PM (X+Ku8)

12 My favorite role was the Senator in The Birdcage

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2025 12:07 PM (VE6XX)

13 Oh yes, seconding him in The Replacements!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2025 12:07 PM (Hkcdp)

14 Woah. Crazy.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2025 12:07 PM (oa1NA)

15 the movie that has both Hackman and Michael Caine, A Bridge Too Far, wastes Hackman by having him play a Polish officer who speaks almost no English and mostly just sits around looking grumpy.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2025 12:07 PM (KRtlO)

16 Loved Hackman. Tough guy, every guy actor. It's like he was born middle aged.

He had a presence and wasn't one of the pretty face walk on actors.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 27, 2025 12:07 PM (+oR7L)

17 More important:

EXPOSED: J6 Committee Member Jamie Raskin's $160M USAID Connection! 🚨

https://tinyurl.com/2j7jr7mu

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 12:07 PM (YfQh2)

18
This vein is played out.

I'll catch all y'all in the next one.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 12:08 PM (xG4kz)

19 Kill me? Lex Luthor? Extinguish the greatest criminal flame of our generation?!

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2025 12:08 PM (KRtlO)

20 Hi Ace
Wht a bizarre story. ust read the bodies were mummified. How does a famous someone like this go undiscovered for long enough for the bodies to be mummified.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 27, 2025 12:08 PM (t/2Uw)

21 Enemy of the State was one of his newer movies I enjoyed.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 27, 2025 12:08 PM (+oR7L)

22 Liked him in unforgiven. The duck of death.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 27, 2025 12:08 PM (5te95)

23 Lex Luther

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 27, 2025 12:08 PM (gbOdA)

24 Great actor, big lefty (most are) but a Marine. He even admitted he was a bit of the shitbird, but still a Marine.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 27, 2025 12:08 PM (gm9Sb)

25 No way out was a documentary.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2025 12:08 PM (A/s+Q)

26 I, too, would chuckle at the thought of making peak Sharon Stone earn the money I showered upon her if I were a rich asshole.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 27, 2025 12:08 PM (JCZqz)

27 Nice tribute to Hackman from James Woods on X.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2025 12:09 PM (LkLld)

28 Sad story.

Unforgiven is always the movie I think of with Hackman but he was pretty great in everything I ever saw him in.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 27, 2025 12:09 PM (L+Wh6)

29 Never understood The Replacements love...
at least, the Movie.

The Band was great. Sloppy drunk and fun.

But that movie? Nah.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2025 12:09 PM (oa1NA)

30
You pick your feet? You ever been in Poughkeepsie?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 27, 2025 12:09 PM (sotcV)

31 20 Hi Ace
Wht a bizarre story. ust read the bodies were mummified. How does a famous someone like this go undiscovered for long enough for the bodies to be mummified.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 27, 2025 12:08 PM (t/2Uw)

Yikes.. Didn't hear that

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2025 12:09 PM (VE6XX)

32 Who'd he piss off?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 27, 2025 12:09 PM (Q4IgG)

33 >>>Wht a bizarre story. ust read the bodies were mummified. How does a famous someone like this go undiscovered for long enough for the bodies to be mummified.

If it's hot and dry and in a house that might act like an oven it could happen in a couple of weeks, I would guess

i know santa fe is hot but is it super-hot in February?

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2025 12:10 PM (KRtlO)

34 The movie doesn't get as much love as some of his other flicks, but I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER, with Hackman and Melvyn Douglas, is a must-see for any fan of Hackman's work. Intense and heart-breaking. Forget Miller's DEATH OF A SALESMAN -- Robert Anderson's I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER is the great American tragedy. YMMV.

May revisit some of his movies this weekend. Been a while.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 27, 2025 12:10 PM (q3u5l)

35 17 More important:

EXPOSED: J6 Committee Member Jamie Raskin's $160M USAID Connection! 🚨

https://tinyurl.com/2j7jr7mu
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 12:07 PM (YfQh2)

Usaid really looks like a giant payoff racket for apparats loyal to the deep state.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 27, 2025 12:10 PM (5te95)

36 After the Superman movies with Hackman they took a more serious tack on Luthor in the various comics.

Luthor is still a villain but instead of a cartoonish one more an arrogant asshole who is often right but willing to do very unethical things to resolve the problems he sees in the world. Amusingly similar to some of the heroes...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 12:10 PM (t0Rmr)

37 Hoosiers was Hackman right?

Posted by: TexasDan at February 27, 2025 12:10 PM (L+Wh6)

38 Planning to fly in the near future? Please reconsider:

https://tinyurl.com/mpsn7drt

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 12:10 PM (YfQh2)

39 The blind monk in Young Frankenstein.

Posted by: 13times at February 27, 2025 12:10 PM (3wUgC)

40
If it's hot and dry and in a house that might act like an oven it could happen in a couple of weeks, I would guess

i know santa fe is hot but is it super-hot in February?
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2025 12:10 PM (KRtlO)

Supposedly there were 2 other dogs who weren't dead ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2025 12:10 PM (VE6XX)

41 @EricLDaugh
·
3m
🚨 BREAKING - SENATOR MARSHA BLACKBURN ON EPSTEIN FILES IMMINENT: This is a phase 1 release. In short order, I will have the HARD COPY in my hand. A.G. Bondi will be responsible for the public release on this.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2025 12:11 PM (LkLld)

42 This is why you don't fully close your bedroom door when you go to sleep if you don't have working central A/C or an open window.

There also the urban legend about people dying in their sleep from extreme flatulence.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 27, 2025 12:11 PM (LPS7w)

43 Miss Tessmacher!!!!

Posted by: Open Channel D at February 27, 2025 12:11 PM (YqDN+)

44 Never understood The Replacements love...
at least, the Movie.

Its a story of what pro-sports would be like it if was mostly done for the love of the game instead of money.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 12:11 PM (t0Rmr)

45 i know santa fe is hot but is it super-hot in February?

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2025 12:10 PM (KRtlO)

No... it's actually cold.

But amazingly dry.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 27, 2025 12:11 PM (mWSu4)

46
EXPOSED: J6 Committee Member Jamie Raskin's $160M USAID Connection! 🚨

https://tinyurl.com/2j7jr7mu
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 12:07 PM (YfQh2)

Did he get one of Biden's pardons ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)

47 7 Sounds like more than carbon monoxide if an open door and scattered pills were found.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 27, 2025 12:05 PM (qBdHI)

Could be. But carbon monoxide can cause confusion. So maybe one or both of them thought they were having a heart attack and reached for the nitro or whatever?

I guess it would be useful to know what the pills were. But if they were killed by a junkie for their pills, I have to imagine said junkie would have at least taken those pills with him when he left.

I guess we'll find out

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 27, 2025 12:11 PM (uCjyK)

48 All I know is that I need to blame the state of CO's ninja assassins.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

49 >>Hoosiers was Hackman right?

Yep. He was great in that as usual.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2025 12:12 PM (LkLld)

50
You People have the worst memories.

We had a long discussion about Gene Hackman just 4 weeks ago.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 27, 2025 12:12 PM (WyTdk)

51 it's true. That's a great freakin' line. Here's a scene I always liked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdcT33sKbn8

Posted by: nononeyouknowyouknow at February 27, 2025 12:12 PM (oaPfe)

52 Funny thing to consider - Biden could have released these files at any point in his 4 years.

There is really only one reason to not do so which is to protect the Epstein clients themselves, which matches the zero arrests of Epstein clients under his administration

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 12:12 PM (t0Rmr)

53 Authorities said the deaths were "suspicious enough in nature to require a thorough search and investigation" after also finding an open pill bottle and pills were also found scattered around the room where Hackman's wife, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, and the dog were discovered.

I wonder if he passed and she couldn't deal with it.

And poisoned the dog so he wouldn't eat their corpses.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2025 12:13 PM (jc0TO)

54 Geez

Mummified?

Who wants to look like Nancy Pelosi and her pendulous megaliths?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 27, 2025 12:13 PM (/2Ls3)

55 First reported as no foul play. I guess now on even the most simplest of reporting you have to apply the 48 hour rule. I really really dislike the press.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 12:13 PM (cwGMH)

56 The little ray of sunshine is fun too.

https://youtu.be/HZkindWyw6M?t=458

Posted by: DaveA at February 27, 2025 12:13 PM (FhXTo)

57 "One time I thought I was dead. Then I realized I was just in Nebraska."

Posted by: brak at February 27, 2025 12:13 PM (jGJov)

58 There also the urban legend about people dying in their sleep from extreme flatulence.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 27, 2025 12:11 PM (LPS7w)

Yet swalwell and nadler live.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 27, 2025 12:13 PM (MGB5H)

59 In Crimson Tide, an okay movie in my opinion, Hackman stole the show and I ended up rooting for him, even though he was supposed to be the antagonist.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 27, 2025 12:13 PM (bNf8H)

60 52 Funny thing to consider - Biden could have released these files at any point in his 4 years.

There is really only one reason to not do so which is to protect the Epstein clients themselves, which matches the zero arrests of Epstein clients under his administration
Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 12:12 PM (t0Rmr)

=======

"This is proof that Biden was a secret Republican out to damage the Democrat Party. Is it any surprise that a Republican in secret would try to protect Donald Trump because Trump and Epstein were best friends!"
-DU, 99.73% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:13 PM (GBKbO)

61 You People have the worst memories.

We had a long discussion about Gene Hackman just 4 weeks ago.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 27, 2025 12:12 PM (WyTdk)
---
I can barely remember what we talked about in the last thread.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 27, 2025 12:13 PM (7fElN)

62 If it's hot and dry and in a house that might act like an oven it could happen in a couple of weeks, I would guess

i know santa fe is hot but is it super-hot in February?
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2025

***
Dry, yes, but it's in northern NM and it sits at 7000 feet. I've been there in October and there was snow. It was early that year, but the locals were not too surprised.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 12:13 PM (J2vNu)

63 Sadly, while great, I always think of the South Park episode with him, where an out-of-control Christopher Reeve becomes an evil Zod-like villain (no offense Zod) fueled by stem-cells and calling him HACK-man.

https://tinyurl.com/4wabm4rz

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 27, 2025 12:14 PM (JCZqz)

64 Wait a minute! The AP story I read this morning said they did NOT consider it suspicious.

And we ALL know the AP is totally trustworthy!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 27, 2025 12:14 PM (wtvvX)

65

"EXPOSED: J6 Committee Member Jamie Raskin's $160M USAID Connection!"

Hey, he had cancer!!!

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at February 27, 2025 12:14 PM (et1vG)

66 Michelle Tratchenberg, only 38 years old, also passed away.

Not that we're akshually gonna see anything Epstein today, or ever.

Posted by: Iasonas wants Comey in Jail at February 27, 2025 12:14 PM (gUzGB)

67 >>>59 In Crimson Tide, an okay movie in my opinion, Hackman stole the show and I ended up rooting for him, even though he was supposed to be the antagonist.

i love that movie. I liked that they didn't make Hackman a villain despite being, as you say, an antagonist. He had a point.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2025 12:14 PM (KRtlO)

68 Usaid really looks like a giant payoff racket for apparats loyal to the deep state.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 27, 2025 12:10 PM (5te95)

It is.

If you want to get really frustrated, listen to Joe Rogan's podcast with his CIA friend, Mike Baker.

Guy is clearly the mouthpiece for the CIA, and has been for the years he's been on JRE, but it's infuriating to listen to him pretend to be MAGA but also caution that we need to move slowly and also, everyone knew this was going on and it's a good thing.

Because on his last appearance, he was saying most of this stuff was conspiracy theories and that the CIA is just a bunch of ham and eggers out there keeping americans safe.

Same evolution the media goes through "this isn't happening, you're nuts." "okay, it's happening but only a little." "it's old news. Everyone has known this was going on forever."

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 27, 2025 12:14 PM (uCjyK)

69
Liked Hackman in "The Package" with Tommy Lee Jones.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 27, 2025 12:14 PM (+oR7L)

70
I wonder if he passed and she couldn't deal with it.

And poisoned the dog so he wouldn't eat their corpses.
Posted by: Grump928

That sounds like My Plan!

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 27, 2025 12:14 PM (WyTdk)

71
Police suspect fair play.

Posted by: Old Dennis Miller line at February 27, 2025 12:15 PM (DobEs)

72 59 In Crimson Tide, an okay movie in my opinion, Hackman stole the show and I ended up rooting for him, even though he was supposed to be the antagonist.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 27, 2025 12:13 PM (bNf8H)

=======

It's weird that at no point does his character decide, "Let's wait 40 minutes until the last possible second to see if we can get the radio fixed."

Crimson Tide is a "serious" movie about nuclear war written by an idiot.

Pretty entertaining, though. I like it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

73 >>Sadly, while great, I always think of the South Park episode with him, where an out-of-control Christopher Reeve becomes an evil Zod-like villain (no offense Zod) fueled by stem-cells and calling him HACK-man.

Same here. I can't hear his name any other way.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2025 12:15 PM (oa1NA)

74 What a line.

"She worked hard for her money."

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 27, 2025 12:15 PM (u82oZ)

75 Sharon Stone-Face

Posted by: Sharkman at February 27, 2025 12:15 PM (bK7PL)

76 Sad about Hackman, i may have to watch Unforgiven now

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack of Wagshambas at February 27, 2025 12:15 PM (HYKHz)

77
If you want to get really frustrated, listen to Joe Rogan's podcast with his CIA friend, Mike Baker.

I don't like Mike Baker

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2025 12:15 PM (VE6XX)

78 Sad. He was hilarious in "Get Shorty."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 27, 2025 12:15 PM (6K6Eu)

79 JFK Jr says Pope died on the 25th.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 27, 2025 12:16 PM (gbOdA)

80 20 Hi Ace
Wht a bizarre story. ust read the bodies were mummified. How does a famous someone like this go undiscovered for long enough for the bodies to be mummified.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 27, 2025 12:08 PM (t/2Uw)

I guess they didn't entertain much anymore.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 27, 2025 12:16 PM (wyMQY)

81 You pick your feet? You ever been in Poughkeepsie?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 27, 2025 12:09 PM (sotcV)

hah I worked there for 5 years. Home of the Tawana and Al show.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 12:16 PM (cwGMH)

82 69 It would be a bit more suspicious if the dog hadn't have died too.

Carbon Monoxide is the odds-on favorite here.
----------------
We need to know what was in that bottle of pills. And then an autopsy. But, yeah, likely carbon monoxide.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 12:16 PM (pLaQB)

83 Give it to him.
I don't think he wants it, Mr. Beauchamp.

Posted by: front toward enemy at February 27, 2025 12:16 PM (TIizU)

84 Barely Animatronic Plank of Wood* Sharon Stone

*An epithet normally applied only to Kevin Costner

Posted by: Sharkman at February 27, 2025 12:16 PM (bK7PL)

85 "Hackman was one of the actors I was thinking of when I mentioned a few months ago that we're going to start losing some of the greats."

---

Start?

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 12:16 PM (dGCAG)

86 Stranded, I think it was called, was about astronauts stranded in space. (Sound familiar?) It had both Hackman (who played one of the astronauts) and Gregory Peck in it.

They still ran it on MST3K.

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 12:16 PM (77rzZ)

87 My personal favorite Superman Lex quotation:

Lex Luthor: [to Otis] Do you know why the number two hundred is so vitally descriptive to both you and me? It's your weight and my I.Q.

RIP Mr. Hackman, your wife and your dog

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 27, 2025 12:16 PM (/HDaX)

88 More important:

EXPOSED: J6 Committee Member Jamie Raskin's $160M USAID Connection! 🚨

https://tinyurl.com/2j7jr7mu
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 12:07 PM (YfQh2)

Uff Da!

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2025 12:16 PM (g47mK)

89 Loved Hackman. Tough guy, every guy actor. It's like he was born middle aged.

He had a presence and wasn't one of the pretty face walk on actors.
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 27, 2025 12:07 PM (+oR7L)

A character actor face but leading man presence and talent. RIP

Posted by: Josephistan at February 27, 2025 12:17 PM (bHGBC)

90 His cameo in Young Frankenstein. Absolute best!

Posted by: Megthered at February 27, 2025 12:17 PM (oYePG)

91 >>>78 Sad. He was hilarious in "Get Shorty."

Look at me.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2025 12:17 PM (KRtlO)

92 Funny thing to consider - Biden could have released these files at any point in his 4 years.

There is really only one reason to not do so which is to protect the Epstein clients themselves, which matches the zero arrests of Epstein clients under his administration
Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 12:12 PM (t0Rmr)

I mean he could have, but the real question is how did none of this come out in trial?

Neither the defense nor the prosecution thought it was germane to discuss the "Johns" in this operation?

Pretty odd, no? You'd think Ghislaines defense would be "I had no idea that these young girls were having sex with older men" and call some of the John's to the stand to testify as such.

Or the prosecution would have called witnesses to say "yep, bitch set me up. I had no idea the girl was 15, but Ghislaine knew!"

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 27, 2025 12:17 PM (uCjyK)

93 85 "Hackman was one of the actors I was thinking of when I mentioned a few months ago that we're going to start losing some of the greats."

---

Start?
Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 12:16 PM (dGCAG)

========

"It all started with James Dean!"
-weeping bitterly at lost youth

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:17 PM (GBKbO)

94 >>hah I worked there for 5 years. Home of the Tawana and Al show.

That happened down near Yonkers, didn't it?

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2025 12:17 PM (oa1NA)

95 Crimson Tide was one of those movies where it was mostly left up to the audience to decide who was in the right or wrong

movies today instead scream their woke virtue signals at you at the top of their lungs using the ugliest fleshbags imaginable

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack of Wagshambas at February 27, 2025 12:17 PM (HYKHz)

96 >>>86 Stranded, I think it was called, was about astronauts stranded in space. (Sound familiar?) It had both Hackman (who played one of the astronauts) and Gregory Peck in it.

They still ran it on MST3K.
Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 12:16 PM (77rzZ)

Marooned?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 27, 2025 12:17 PM (X+Ku8)

97 Sad about Hackman, i may have to watch Unforgiven now
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack of Wagshambas at February 27, 2025 12:15 PM (HYKHz)

Gives me an excuse to watch Heartbreakers again.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 12:17 PM (cwGMH)

98 Said it earlier today.

The French Connection. Crazy Awesome Hackman work.

And one of the top ten car chases of all time.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 27, 2025 12:17 PM (vakLI)

99 I liked Gene Hackman in "Patton". Especially when he slapped the coward hiding out in the field hospital.

You're going back to the front, my friend. You may get shot, and you may get killed, but you're going up to the fighting. Either that, or I'm going to stand you up in front of a firing squad. I ought to shoot you myself, you god-damned... bastard! Get him out of here!

Posted by: Zombie George C. Scott at February 27, 2025 12:17 PM (NAF5O)

100 I can barely remember what we talked about in the last thread.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 27, 2025 12:13 PM (7fElN)
----------
Well, you *are* a squirrel...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 27, 2025 12:18 PM (6K6Eu)

101 Wait
Come back
I was gonna make expresso

Posted by: Old Blind Man at February 27, 2025 12:18 PM (gbOdA)

102 Could someone explain the photo associated with the linked NY Post story (if it's still there)? I know he hasn't acted in anything for years, but I can't believe he turned into that guy coming out of a 7-Eleven with a coffee and scratch ticket.

Posted by: ajanale at February 27, 2025 12:18 PM (mxEar)

103 Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found partially-mummified at the couple's $3.3 million mansion, with pills strewn in their bathroom.

An arrest warrant obtained by DailyMail.com revealed Arakawa, 64, was found decomposed with bloating on her face and mummification in her hands and feet.

Sheriffs said Hackman was found to have the same signs of decomposition as his wife.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 27, 2025 12:18 PM (t/2Uw)

104 I really got to get new hearing aids, I didn't get one word of that 14 seconds clip, his or hers.
Any recommendations?

Posted by: From about That Time at February 27, 2025 12:18 PM (n4GiU)

105 >>Barely Animatronic Plank of Wood* Sharon Stone

She was no Michele Pfeifer.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2025 12:18 PM (oa1NA)

106 I recall him having a starring or featured role way back in '71 or so in I Never Sang for my Father. On an earlier thread this morning I mentioned another flick of his I haven't seen, Scarecrow (1973), with the then-new star Al Pacino. It was filmed in Denver. Locals when I lived there still remembered the shoot and could point out locations used in the movie.

One Hackman role nobody has mentioned was his turn as the pastor in The Poseidon Adventure. I loved the novel, thought the film was pretty good (though everybody sneers at it now for some reason).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 12:18 PM (J2vNu)

107 The movie is Marooned. Based on a Martin Caiden book of the same name.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 27, 2025 12:18 PM (/2Ls3)

108 Did you pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 27, 2025 12:18 PM (w4nzS)

109 This story is very morbid.

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2025 12:18 PM (g47mK)

110 The State finally got him.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 27, 2025 12:19 PM (0eSUB)

111 Gives me an excuse to watch Heartbreakers again.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 12:17 PM (cwGMH)

There are always 2 excuses for watching Heartbreakers.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 27, 2025 12:19 PM (MGB5H)

112 This is NOT a Hollywood production.

Why don't they just shoot them?!

https://tinyurl.com/3v2vrmvw

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 12:19 PM (YfQh2)

113 Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found partially-mummified at the couple's $3.3 million mansion, with pills strewn in their bathroom.

An arrest warrant obtained by DailyMail.com revealed Arakawa, 64, was found decomposed with bloating on her face and mummification in her hands and feet.

Sheriffs said Hackman was found to have the same signs of decomposition as his wife.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 27, 2025

***
I've heard of "Ozempic Face," but not "Ozempic Foot"!

Was it that no one had seen them in some time?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 12:19 PM (J2vNu)

114 Hackman did this horrible comedy with Dan Akroyd, I can't remember the name but it must have been for a payday.

Even in that, Hackman had his moments. I can actually see Hackman thinking "what the hell am I doing here?" LOL.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 27, 2025 12:19 PM (+oR7L)

115 Look at me.
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2025 12:17 PM (KRtlO)
----------
*Ray Bones goes ballistic*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 27, 2025 12:19 PM (6K6Eu)

116 95 Crimson Tide was one of those movies where it was mostly left up to the audience to decide who was in the right or wrong

movies today instead scream their woke virtue signals at you at the top of their lungs using the ugliest fleshbags imaginable
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack of Wagshambas at February 27, 2025 12:17 PM (HYKHz)

=======

Oh, it definitely takes sides. It's on Denzel's side. It's just that Hackman's character isn't one-dimensional and does have a point (though...seriously...agree to have the radio fixed).

If they really didn't want the film to take sides, the film would have ended with no word about the situation in Russia being resolved or not. Keep everyone, including the audience, in the dark about what was actually happening beyond the hull of the sub.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

117 I think it's strange they didn't have a housekeeper come in two weeks? In a huge house and he's in his 90s? That's odd.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2025 12:19 PM (A/s+Q)

118 Barely Animatronic Plank of Wood* Sharon Stone

*An epithet normally applied only to Kevin Costner
Posted by: Sharkman at February 27, 2025 12:16 PM (bK7PL)

Costner never stopped traffic at LAX while blowing Bill Clinton on AF1... that we know of.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 12:19 PM (dGCAG)

119 RFK Jr says Pope died on the 25th.

Posted by: rhennigantx

Well, let's hope he doesn't show back up 3 days later on the 28th, IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 27, 2025 12:19 PM (bK7PL)

120 I wonder if Bubba Clinton has upped his security team today. Hillary hasn't whacked anyone in quite some time.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2025 12:20 PM (LkLld)

121 "Crimson Tide was one of those movies where it was mostly left up to the audience to decide who was in the right or wrong"

========
Well, there was a very strong signal who was right. I mean the white guy commanding the USS ALABAMA had to be shown wisdom by the black man.

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 27, 2025 12:20 PM (i7Q7S)

122
I can barely remember what we talked about in the last thread.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Gene Hackman

And the Art thread before that? Gene Hackman

And the Morning Report? Gene Hackman

And the Tech thread? Gene Hackman

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 12:20 PM (xG4kz)

123 Marooned is written by the guy who wrote he novel Six Million Dollar Man is based on.

Posted by: steevy at February 27, 2025 12:20 PM (KQk9m)

124 Good breweries in Poughleepsie area.

However, it's one of the update NY towns they've been funneling migrants to, you know, in order to transform America.

Upstate NY migrant settling is a planned agenda and should be a bigger scandal.

But hey, when does the NFL season start again? Important things, you know.

Posted by: Iasonas wants Comey in Jail at February 27, 2025 12:20 PM (gUzGB)

125 Okay, let's not go nuts on this conspiracy theory...HACKMAN's death seems totally natural...the question is only whether his wife's was...or if she killed herself b/c he died...

Then, again, she gets a headache from natural gas slow poisoning in the middle of the night, tries to take pills, collapses in the bathroom while doing it, and dies with pills spread around her next to the toxic space heater causing the issues in the 1st place.

"Hackman was found dead Wednesday in a mudroom, and Arakawa was found dead in a bathroom next to a space heater. There was an open prescription bottle and pills scattered on the countertop near Arakawa, the AP reported."

The dog being dead with no obvious cause is gonna mean this is almost certainly what it appears to be - natural gas/CO2 poisoning. No one kills a dog normally, and if they do, it's normally shot or obviously poisoned with something fast acting and noticeable...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 27, 2025 12:20 PM (exHjb)

126 >>RFK Jr says Pope died on the 25th.

Oh well. Anyway...

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2025 12:20 PM (oa1NA)

127
4 weeks ago, when we last discussed Gene Hackman, someone here recommended Heartbreakers co-starring Sigorney Weaver. So I downloaded it. Better be good.

btw, You People need Ginko Biloba or Geritol, or something.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 27, 2025 12:20 PM (WyTdk)

128
*An epithet normally applied only to Kevin Costner
Posted by: Sharkman at February 27, 2025 12:16 PM (bK7PL)

_________

"Over here!" - Robert Redford

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 27, 2025 12:20 PM (sotcV)

129 Sounds like they were dead for a while.. Still could have been carbon monoxide

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2025 12:20 PM (VE6XX)

130 Yes, it was Marooned.

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 12:21 PM (77rzZ)

131 I see nobody has mentioned The Conversation yet. That was an excellent movie.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 27, 2025 12:21 PM (xCA6C)

132 Enemy of the State is my favorite Hackman movie I think. These days it’s more like a documentary than fiction….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 27, 2025 12:21 PM (ZtAny)

133 Well, let's hope he doesn't show back up 3 days later on the 28th, IYKWIMAITYD.
Posted by: Sharkman at February 27, 2025 12:19 PM (bK7PL)

There's nothing in Canon Law that says the pope can't be a zombie.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2025 12:21 PM (jKo6M)

134 Posted by: Sharkman at February 27, 2025 12:19 PM (bK7PL)

If he does, he'll have horns, not a halo.

Posted by: Iasonas wants Comey in Jail at February 27, 2025 12:21 PM (gUzGB)

135 Dog that died was in a kennel.

Posted by: lin-duh at February 27, 2025 12:21 PM (ZtAny)

136 here's a link to the whole story from the Daily Mail

https://tinyurl.com/5h8bfmh9

seems Hackman was a recluse

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 27, 2025 12:21 PM (t/2Uw)

137 This is NOT a Hollywood production.

Why don't they just shoot them?!

Somehow the idea America can actually defend its border is controversial.

Try that shit in China or Russia and they'll shoot you without a second thought.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 12:21 PM (t0Rmr)

138
Hackman in "The Heist" was good. Forgot about that movie. Good ending.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 27, 2025 12:21 PM (+oR7L)

139 OMG! A plague of locusts followed by a plague of frogs!

ABC News@ABC
Deviations from normal weather patterns are putting several parts of the U.S. at risk of seeing an uptick in disease-spreading pests as winter turns to spring, according to a new analysis.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 27, 2025 12:21 PM (L/fGl)

140 Willowed:
The cost of the USPS would be reduced - alot - if we got over the idea we need mail on Saturday. Since that means more than 40 hrs/wk, they need to hire a bunch more ppl. Who needs mail Saturdays?
----------
I don't need mail at all. I pay my bills online. I receive my income partially in person (as deals close) and partially through direct deposit.

Why would we still need "mail" in 2025?

Posted by: Crusader at February 27, 2025 12:21 PM (TN0g+)

141 what could possibly be a motive for murdering a 95 year old retired actor

Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2025 12:22 PM (AOsQT)

142 This story is very morbid.

Well, yeah, they *are* dead.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 27, 2025 12:22 PM (/HDaX)

143 135 Dog that died was in a kennel.

Posted by: lin-duh at February 27, 2025 12:21 PM

That's horrible.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 27, 2025 12:22 PM (+oR7L)

144
It would be hilarious (but not surprising) if the pope's been dead for months but was still tweeting anti-Trump crap.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 27, 2025 12:22 PM (WyTdk)

145 I seem to recall reading Gene Hackman's stand in was the guy who Yogi Berra famously said, "See that guy over there? In a few years, that guy will be a star! See that other guy over there? In a few years, he has a chance to be 30."

Yeah, the stand in was the second guy.

Don't know if it's true but, or if my aging memory is once again playing tricks on me, but, still think it's amusing.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 27, 2025 12:22 PM (tT6L1)

146 >>Upstate NY migrant settling is a planned agenda and should be a bigger scandal.

I'd imagine they dumped a bunch in Oneonta, then?

Sad. Oneonta was always getting POVs dumped there. Such a great Town before those days.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2025 12:22 PM (oa1NA)

147 There is really only one reason to not do so which is to protect the Epstein clients themselves, which matches the zero arrests of Epstein clients under his administration
Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 12:12 PM (t0Rmr)

It is not blackmail! We help people and they help us back. Government, after all, is what we do for each other, right?

Posted by: Kindltot at February 27, 2025 12:22 PM (D7oie)

148 RFK Jr says Pope died on the 25th.

I remember seeing something out of the Papacy claiming the Pope was resting.

How do you say "in peace" in Italian?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 12:22 PM (t0Rmr)

149 It's not unreasonable to show that in many circumstances, sub crews don't always have a full picture of what's going on outside the boat.

Interesting story is how the Captain and XO work in that environment when they have differing opinions and, as isn't unheard of, the chain of command can become a bit less formal when deployed like that.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 27, 2025 12:22 PM (vakLI)

150 That happened down near Yonkers, didn't it?
Posted by: garrett

Poor geography there. All NYCers know that Yonkers is Upstate.

Posted by: City Slicker at February 27, 2025 12:22 PM (G5+As)

151 "It all started with James Dean!"
-weeping bitterly at lost youth
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:17 PM (GBKbO)

Nonsense, it started with J.W. Booth!

Sick, September, Tyrannus Rex!!

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 12:22 PM (dGCAG)

152 USPS keeps losing my mail.

You'd think everyone would send 1099s by electronic means these days, but no, that would make too much sense.

More stress for me, of course.

Posted by: Iasonas wants Comey in Jail at February 27, 2025 12:22 PM (gUzGB)

153 Dog that died was in a kennel.
------------
Ugh...I wish they had thought that through a little more.

Posted by: Crusader at February 27, 2025 12:23 PM (TN0g+)

154 143 135 Dog that died was in a kennel.

Posted by: lin-duh at February 27, 2025 12:21 PM

That's horrible.
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 27, 2025 12:22 PM (+oR7L)

Sad.. but at least he went with his "People"

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2025 12:23 PM (VE6XX)

155 Crimson Tide. Naval personnel don't carry umbrellas in uniform. The C.O.B. is not addressed as Mr. Cob.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 27, 2025 12:23 PM (gm9Sb)

156 >>One Hackman role nobody has mentioned was his turn as the pastor in The Poseidon Adventure. I loved the novel, thought the film was pretty good (though everybody sneers at it now for some reason).

They're remaking that one, this time it's a Delta Airlines jet upside down and floating in Lake Michigan.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 27, 2025 12:23 PM (Y1sOo)

157 90% of the physical mail I get is junk mail and if I could I would make it stop.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 12:23 PM (t0Rmr)

158 Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2025 12:22 PM (oa1NA)

Middletown, Albany, etc. etc.

Posted by: Iasonas wants Comey in Jail at February 27, 2025 12:23 PM (gUzGB)

159 Wht a bizarre story. ust read the bodies were mummified. How does a famous someone like this go undiscovered for long enough for the bodies to be mummified.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 27, 2025

***
To me, "mummified" implies something that is done by other humans to the body, like the ancient Egyptians used to do to their pharaohs. "Mummy-like," however, would suggest that the skin had dried and crackled up after death in the natural course of things in a dry climate like Santa Fe.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 12:23 PM (J2vNu)

160
I remember seeing something out of the Papacy claiming the Pope was resting.

How do you say "in peace" in Italian?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 12:22 PM (t0Rmr)

Well, if he's dead, he's in hell. So yeah, no peace.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 12:23 PM (dGCAG)

161 Another favorite Hackman movie of mine. March or Die where he plays a French Foreign Legion officer who has had any idea of military glory beaten out of him by WW1.

Posted by: steevy at February 27, 2025 12:24 PM (KQk9m)

162 Like him in Runaway Jury.

But a distant fourth behind French Connection, Unforgiven, and Hoosiers.

Posted by: Diabeetus at February 27, 2025 12:24 PM (C278+)

163 4 weeks ago, when we last discussed Gene Hackman, someone here recommended Heartbreakers co-starring Sigorney Weaver. So I downloaded it. Better be good.

btw, You People need Ginko Biloba or Geritol, or something.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 27, 2025 12:20 PM (WyTdk)

Can I interest you in a reverse mortgage?

Posted by: Tom sellack at February 27, 2025 12:24 PM (5te95)

164 How many more lives??!!

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 27, 2025 12:24 PM (X+Ku8)

165 Jamaal Bowman Ed.D.@JamaalBowmanNY
Dear Elon and Trump,
Y’all are pissing off a lot of white people who voted for yall.
Your own cabinet is not following Elons directives.
Yall are agents of chaos.
Gonna hurt you in the midterms.
Stay woke!

-
Yeah, Jamaal, I mean Dr. Jamaal, us Crackers For Christ are way mad at Trump!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 27, 2025 12:24 PM (L/fGl)

166
Sharon Stoneface is an esteemed Global Thinker and Swell, all y'all!

She dishes up her goulashes of wisdom about "the poors 'n' ignorants" to her fellow swells at Davos. She's not dumb! She's like, smart! and all!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 12:24 PM (xG4kz)

167 Anything north of Da Bronx is upstate.

Unless you live in Rockland, then anything north of Rockland is upstate.

Just like asking Jersyans where north/south Jersey starts.

Just don't ask them about Central Jersey.

Lord, this state is stupid.

Posted by: Iasonas wants Comey in Jail at February 27, 2025 12:24 PM (gUzGB)

168 Enemy of the State is my favorite Hackman movie I think. These days it’s more like a documentary than fiction….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 27, 2025 12:21 PM (ZtAny)
===================
The only thing that movie lacks in verisimilitude is a scene where the NSA geeks sitting in the van start discussing their trans-operations.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 27, 2025 12:24 PM (D8QjK)

169 143 135 Dog that died was in a kennel.

Posted by: lin-duh at February 27, 2025 12:21 PM

That's horrible.
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 27, 2025 12:22 PM (+oR7L)

So, again, it would have barked loudly for a neighbor to hear if an intruder came...right now, the obvious look seems like the obvious answer...

And separate rooms is no biggie for a 95 year old and a 62 year old...I doubt they shared a bed at his age...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 27, 2025 12:24 PM (exHjb)

170
RFK Jr says Pope died on the 25th.

________

Not inconsistent with being in stable condition.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 27, 2025 12:24 PM (sotcV)

171 Upstate NY migrant settling is a planned agenda and should be a bigger scandal.

But hey, when does the NFL season start again? Important things, you know.
Posted by: Iasonas wants Comey in Jail at February 27, 2025 12:20 PM (gUzGB)

Not just upstate New York. It's all of the smaller / "dying" cities in the Northeast and now even the more rural areas. And it's not just our Central American friends.

I was up in New Hampshire not too long ago and a good 90% of the people on the (admittedly touristy) hiking trails were people from India. It was very noticeable.

There are NGO's who are moving people specifically to these white rural / smaller city (ahem Republican) regions.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 27, 2025 12:24 PM (uCjyK)

172 How do you say "in peace" in Italian?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 12:22 PM

Rest in da pieces.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 27, 2025 12:24 PM (ewjUl)

173
Gene Hackman Yelling/Acting in The Poseidon Adventure:

WE GOTTA GO DOWN TO GO UP!

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 27, 2025 12:24 PM (WyTdk)

174 I never cared for Crimson Tide even though I basically love all of the other submarine movies. Always thought it was kinda goofy and preachy at the same time. Magical Negro saves the day. Yay.

Down Periscope > all of them

Posted by: ballistic at February 27, 2025 12:24 PM (iyRXG)

175 You'd think everyone would send 1099s by electronic means these days, but no, that would make too much sense.

Here is another fun one...banks are not required to send 1099-INT if it is less than $10.

However you ARE still required to report the amount on your taxes.

Have fun looking through your banking history and handmaking your own 1099 folks!

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 12:24 PM (t0Rmr)

176 Nobody ever mentions Prime Cut.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2025 12:24 PM (63Dwl)

177 >>How do you say "in peace" in Italian?

requiescat in pace

Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2025 12:24 PM (LkLld)

178 Afternoon ace . The first details from the the police was foul play not suspected. Now windows open, pills around. Bongino rule says wait forty eight hours before commenting. I guess I violated it by posting " police don't suspect foul play" pixy thread

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 27, 2025 12:25 PM (EG7Bp)

179 > what could possibly be a motive for murdering a 95 year old retired actor

Old grudge.
Borderline personality who had a fixation.
Drug deal gone bad.
Lifetime criminal was looking for money/thrill/whatever.
Crazy neighbor.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 27, 2025 12:25 PM (lIio7)

180 A very dear grandmother used to worry the angels had forgotten about her when she was 94. (She had suffered two strokes and the loss of one leg, knee down a few years earlier.) She had been a very tough, hardworking lady who immigrated from Europe with her family when young, but said in her old age, the loneliness & pain were sometimes overwhelming.

I liked Hackman a great deal and will not entertain bad thoughts for now, especially w/o confirmation of the reason for his and his family's passing.

Thanks, Ace.

Posted by: L - Another fine day at February 27, 2025 12:25 PM (NFX2v)

181 BREAKING - SENATOR MARSHA BLACKBURN ON EPSTEIN FILES IMMINENT: This is a phase 1 release. In short order, I will have the HARD COPY in my hand. A.G. Bondi will be responsible for the public release on this.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2025 12:11 PM (LkLld)

Nothing burger with extra mayo. We've already seen the flight logs, which were leaked years ago.

Unless we see any intel files on how the whole operation was used by foreign intelligence outfits (perhaps even by allies, maybe even America's greatest ally, who knows?) to influence American politicians and industry captains, there really isn't anything much to learn here.

Posted by: raimondo at February 27, 2025 12:25 PM (9ptcg)

182 He's great in Poseidon Adventure. He was pretty much great in everything regardless of the quality of the movie overall.

Posted by: steevy at February 27, 2025 12:25 PM (KQk9m)

183 Pope pining for the fjords?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 27, 2025 12:25 PM (/2Ls3)

184 JFK Jr says Pope died on the 25th.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 27, 2025 12:16 PM (gbOdA)

Crap, that is just like when Pres Hugo Chavez supposedly died and his "inner council" spent a sweaty week figuring out the succession for Maduro

Posted by: Kindltot at February 27, 2025 12:25 PM (D7oie)

185 135 Dog that died was in a kennel.
Posted by: lin-duh

Thank fully, not the wife!

Posted by: Kennel Kough at February 27, 2025 12:25 PM (G5+As)

186 what could possibly be a motive for murdering a 95 year old retired actor
Posted by: Don Black at February 27, 2025 12:22 PM (AOsQT)

The french heroin tradesmen have a long memory.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 12:25 PM (dGCAG)

187 174 I never cared for Crimson Tide even though I basically love all of the other submarine movies. Always thought it was kinda goofy and preachy at the same time. Magical Negro saves the day. Yay.

Down Periscope > all of them
Posted by: ballistic at February 27, 2025 12:24 PM (iyRXG)

========

I have a weird soft-spot for sub movies, too.

Pressure-cookers of drama.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:25 PM (GBKbO)

188 I question the timing of it being so close to the Epstein releases. Big pedowood actor. Suspicious circumstances.

But I think I'm the only one.

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2025 12:25 PM (If0wl)

189 I thought I would read. Hackman died of old age and in an honorable act his wife Arakawa committed Hari Kari.
Arakawa seems like a Japanese name..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 27, 2025 12:25 PM (w4nzS)

190 OMG! A plague of locusts followed by a plague of frogs!

ABC News@ABC
Deviations from normal weather patterns are putting several parts of the U.S. at risk of seeing an uptick in disease-spreading pests as winter turns to spring, according to a new analysis.

Did they elaborate as to how this is all Trump's fault?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 27, 2025 12:25 PM (xCA6C)

191 This story begins to sound like a plot for an early Ellery Queen novel, The Navajo Retriever Mystery, or something. Surreal murder scenes were the kind of thing the Queen cousins specialized in.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 12:25 PM (J2vNu)

192 And one of the top ten car chases of all time.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 27, 2025 12:17 PM (vakLI)

And Friedkin did it all without one city permit.

Posted by: front toward enemy at February 27, 2025 12:25 PM (TIizU)

193 How do you say "in peace" in Italian?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 12:22 PM

Rest in da pieces.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 27, 2025 12:24 PM (ewjUl)
-------------

Missed a perfect opportunity for a Father Guido Sarducci sock.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 27, 2025 12:26 PM (tT6L1)

194 159 Wht a bizarre story. ust read the bodies were mummified. How does a famous someone like this go undiscovered for long enough for the bodies to be mummified.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 27, 2025

***
To me, "mummified" implies something that is done by other humans to the body, like the ancient Egyptians used to do to their pharaohs. "Mummy-like," however, would suggest that the skin had dried and crackled up after death in the natural course of things in a dry climate like Santa Fe.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 12:23 PM (J2vNu)

This is the media reporting...they just mean bloated and dried out...aka dead awhile before neighbor said "hey, I haven't seen them in awhile...maybe I should get someone to check on them"...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 27, 2025 12:26 PM (exHjb)

195 > requiescat in pace

Requires poop while walking.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 27, 2025 12:26 PM (lIio7)

196 >>requiescat in pace

Always.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2025 12:26 PM (oa1NA)

197 RFK Jr says Pope died on the 25th.

________

Not inconsistent with being in stable condition.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 27, 2025 12:24 PM (sotcV)

Dead's pretty stable.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 12:26 PM (dGCAG)

198 How does the car chase in The French Connection compare with the one in Bullitt?

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 12:26 PM (77rzZ)

199 Could be. But carbon monoxide can cause confusion. So maybe one or both of them thought they were having a heart attack and reached for the nitro or whatever?

Supposedly he retired because his doctor told him that he had a bad heart. Of course, he was also 95.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 12:26 PM (ExV1e)

200 I thought I would read. Hackman died of old age and in an honorable act his wife Arakawa committed Hari Kari.
Arakawa seems like a Japanese name..
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 27, 2025

***
"Hari-kari? You got the wrong century, Jack."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 12:26 PM (J2vNu)

201 How do you say "in peace" in Italian?
Posted by: 18-1

Rest in da pieces.
Posted by: Minnfidel

Missed a perfect opportunity for a Father Guido Sarducci sock.
Posted by: blake

Or a Paulie Walnuts sock.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 12:27 PM (NiXiP)

202 He was also good in Behind Enemy Lines and especially Enemy of the State.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 27, 2025 12:27 PM (duI51)

203 Consumers are preparing for a 24-hour economic blackout on Friday, one of several boycotts planned by groups of consumers or activists to protest what they call corporate greed, companies that have rolled back their diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and President Donald Trump’s efforts to eliminate federal DEI programs since taking office. ...

The organizer of the boycott goes by TheOneCalledJai on Instagram, but his real name is John Schwarz. He told USA TODAY he started the “bold” idea because the time was right and people are frustrated with what he calls corporate greed and other frustrations.

The one-day action has since been expanded by The People’s Union, the organization Schwarz started. It includes boycotts of various companies and retailers during different time periods including Amazon (March 7-14), Nestle (March 21-2

, Walmart (April 7-14) and a second broader one-day economic blackout on April 18.

... I bet I don't even notice .. like last time

Posted by: SMOD at February 27, 2025 12:27 PM (RHGPo)

204 are there two raimondos?

Posted by: Kindltot at February 27, 2025 12:27 PM (D7oie)

205 No one has mentioned Hackman as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde, so I will. He had fun with that one.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 27, 2025 12:27 PM (o5+a9)

206 202 He was also good in Behind Enemy Lines and especially Enemy of the State.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 27, 2025 12:27 PM (duI51)

=======

Enemy of the State would have been Tony Scott's best movie if he hadn't made the masterpiece Unstoppable.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

207 How do you say "in peace" in Italian?
Posted by: 18-1

I think it's "alfredo" or maybe "abbondanza."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 27, 2025 12:27 PM (L/fGl)

208 I was up in New Hampshire not too long ago and a good 90% of the people on the (admittedly touristy) hiking trails were people from India. It was very noticeable.

One of the ways I knew COVID was an op is that early on I decided I should take up hobbies to stay away from other people and went hiking and sure enough the trails were full of Indians and Chinese.

Obviously we needed to lock everyone down while still letting people from Mumbai and...Wuhan...fly to rural NH...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 12:27 PM (t0Rmr)

209 This is NOT a Hollywood production.

Why don't they just shoot them?!

====
With 25 acp. A lot.
Then nudge back over the border.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 27, 2025 12:27 PM (0eSUB)

210 Oh man that sucks.

Gene Hackman was one of those guys that I don't remember ever seeing him be bad. He wasn't always absolute top-tier, but he always delivered a solid performance.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at February 27, 2025 12:28 PM (setIA)

211 It's interesting that the term "RIP" spans a bunch of languages.

Posted by: Goodbury and Graves, Ltd. at February 27, 2025 12:28 PM (G5+As)

212 Police said they had been dead about two weeks and that gas leak was ruled out. Door open. Found by two house employees.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 27, 2025 12:28 PM (t/2Uw)

213 How do you say "in peace" in Italian?

Riposa in pace

Posted by: kallisto at February 27, 2025 12:28 PM (B4P5W)

214
jamal bowman, who HOAX-pulled the Fire Alarm, EX-rep?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 27, 2025 12:28 PM (WyTdk)

215 Unlike NGOs, most companies that sell things have the ability to survive glitches in their cash-flow

Posted by: Kindltot at February 27, 2025 12:28 PM (D7oie)

216 Bat 21

Posted by: steevy at February 27, 2025 12:28 PM (KQk9m)

217 And one of the top ten car chases of all time.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 27, 2025 12:17 PM (vakLI)

And Friedkin did it all without one city permit.
Posted by: front toward enemy

"Don't stop! We don't have permits!"

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 12:28 PM (NiXiP)

218 are there two raimondos?
Posted by: Kindltot at February 27, 2025 12:27 PM (D7oie)

Only in his head.

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2025 12:28 PM (If0wl)

219 Is the Pope now running marathons?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 27, 2025 12:28 PM (/2Ls3)

220 I never cared for Crimson Tide even though I basically love all of the other submarine movies. Always thought it was kinda goofy and preachy at the same time. Magical Negro saves the day. Yay.

Down Periscope > all of them
Posted by: ballistic at February 27, 2025 12:24 PM (iyRXG)

========

I have a weird soft-spot for sub movies, too.

Pressure-cookers of drama.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman

--

Just keep in mind that most movies about submarines bear as much realism as Top Gun.

My favorite (not in a good way) groan movie was Hunter Killer.

It begins and ends with Das Boot.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 27, 2025 12:28 PM (vakLI)

221 How does the car chase in The French Connection compare with the one in Bullitt?
Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 12:26 PM (77rzZ)

Both not as good as the Ronin chase imho.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 12:29 PM (cwGMH)

222 I thought I would read. Hackman died of old age and in an honorable act his wife Arakawa committed Hari Kari.
Arakawa seems like a Japanese name..
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 27, 2025 12:25 PM (w4nzS)

I forget who it was, but there's the story of the Brit commander in India, when they came upon a pyre, on which they had placed some dead potentate, and they were about to toss the bride on with him.

The Brits were set on not allowing this, and the locals said something about "this is our custom."

At which point the commander ordered his troops to point their weapons at the locals, and said "We Brits have our own customs as well."

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 12:29 PM (dGCAG)

223 Hackman as the Polish General in A Bridge Too Far. Loved everything he was in. Probably my most favorite actor of all time. Weird story though. CO2?

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 27, 2025 12:29 PM (ewjUl)

224 >>An arrest warrant obtained by DailyMail.com revealed Arakawa, 64, was found decomposed with bloating on her face and mummification in her hands and feet.
___
"Arrest warrant?" I wonder who they were arresting and what the probable cause was for the issuance of the warrant.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 27, 2025 12:29 PM (bNf8H)

225
I like the old, gritty 70's movies, like Mother, Jugs, & Speed, The Seven-Ups, etc.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 27, 2025 12:29 PM (WyTdk)

226 Submariners do it deeper, and stay down longer.

Some say The Paolo was a submariner.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 27, 2025 12:29 PM (Kq6ZB)

227 179 > what could possibly be a motive for murdering a 95 year old retired actor

Old grudge.
Borderline personality who had a fixation.
Drug deal gone bad.
Lifetime criminal was looking for money/thrill/whatever.
Crazy neighbor.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 27, 2025 12:25 PM (lIio7)

Touching a hoagie.

Posted by: Rich "Psycho" Giamboni at February 27, 2025 12:29 PM (PiwSw)

228 I liked that they didn't make Hackman a villain despite being, as you say, an antagonist. He had a point.
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2025 12:14 PM (KRtlO)

He may have had a point, but he was wrong. If you can just remove the guy who has to agree with you before you launch nukes then the second guy serves no purpose.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 12:29 PM (ExV1e)

229 And Friedkin did it all without one city permit.
Posted by: front toward enemy at February 27, 2025 12:25 PM (TIizU)
-----------
Nearly creamed an unknowing pedestrian in the process.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 27, 2025 12:29 PM (6K6Eu)

230 Loved Ronin but can no longer watch it because Robert Deniro is in it...

Posted by: steevy at February 27, 2025 12:30 PM (KQk9m)

231 Of all the Gene Hackman movies you could mention, you chose The Quick and the Dead? Come on, Ace!

Posted by: Lex at February 27, 2025 12:30 PM (l5xX+)

232 220 Just keep in mind that most movies about submarines bear as much realism as Top Gun.

My favorite (not in a good way) groan movie was Hunter Killer.

It begins and ends with Das Boot.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 27, 2025 12:28 PM (vakLI)

======

Oh, sure.

Everything's too big. All of the problems with portraying the military in general. Definitely.

Still, having actors unable to escape from each other without even seeing the sky and having good, narrative reason for it? All the yelling just feels more satisfying.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)

233 i know santa fe is hot but is it super-hot in February?

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2025 12:10 PM (KRtlO)

No... it's actually cold.

But amazingly dry.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 27, 2025 12:11 PM (mWSu4)

As I stated on a previous thread, it was 29 degrees in Santa Fe this morning at 6am, their time.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 27, 2025 12:30 PM (dgRL6)

234 Ah, the Poseidon Adventure. Pamela Sue Martin's short shorts...

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 12:30 PM (77rzZ)

235 One of the ways I knew COVID was an op is that early on I decided I should take up hobbies to stay away from other people and went hiking and sure enough the trails were full of Indians and Chinese.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 27, 2025 12:27 PM (t0Rmr)

No yellow!!!

Posted by: Hunter Biden, Ordering his Newest Sex Slaves at February 27, 2025 12:30 PM (uCjyK)

236 178 Afternoon ace . The first details from the the police was foul play not suspected. Now windows open, pills around. Bongino rule says wait forty eight hours before commenting. I guess I violated it by posting " police don't suspect foul play" pixy thread

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 27, 2025 12:25 PM (EG7Bp)

Heh. You fucked up. You trusted the AP (just like me!)

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 27, 2025 12:30 PM (wtvvX)

237 I once asked this literary agent, uh, what kind of writing paid the best... he said, "Ransom notes."

Posted by: HARRY ZIMM at February 27, 2025 12:30 PM (W2EWw)

238
Ginko Balboa was the name of Rita Moreno's third rate singer and dancer character in "The Ritz".

Maybe.

Go look for yourself.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 12:30 PM (xG4kz)

239 And Friedkin did it all without one city permit.
Posted by: front toward enemy at February 27, 2025 12:25 PM (TIizU)
-----------
Nearly creamed an unknowing pedestrian in the process.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 27, 2025 12:29 PM (6K6Eu)

Plowed through a civilian car that got in the way.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 27, 2025 12:31 PM (MGB5H)

240 205 No one has mentioned Hackman as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde, so I will. He had fun with that one.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 27, 2025 12:27 PM (o5+a9)

Hackman was nominated for an Oscar for that one. Best supporting..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 27, 2025 12:31 PM (w4nzS)

241 Scott Jennings Asks CNN Panel for Examples of Trump ‘Shredding’ Constitution and They Can’t Give Any.

Posted by: SMOD at February 27, 2025 12:31 PM (RHGPo)

242 The organizer of the boycott goes by TheOneCalledJai on Instagram, but his real name is John Schwarz.

What's his kid's names? Where do they go to school? Any siblings? What's their names? Their kid's names?

Doxxing can be fun.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 12:31 PM (NiXiP)

243 Best submarine battle on film?

Wrath of Khan.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 27, 2025 12:31 PM (/2Ls3)

244 If you can just remove the guy who has to agree with you before you launch nukes then the second guy serves no purpose.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 12:29 PM (ExV1e)

So the movie can happen

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2025 12:31 PM (If0wl)

245 Was it that no one had seen them in some time?

The most recent photo of them out in public was last fall.

I can totally see it being carbon monoxide. Or alternatively Gene died and his wife had a heart attack when she found him, something that happens somewhat regularly with married couples.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2025 12:31 PM (2ocoG)

246 Barely Animatronic Plank of Wood* Sharon Stone

*An epithet normally applied only to Kevin Costner
Posted by: Sharkman at February 27, 2025 12:16 PM (bK7PL)

Probably an unpopular opinion, but I'd also apply that to Christian Bale.

Posted by: Doof at February 27, 2025 12:31 PM (Uq+qx)

247 The one-day action has since been expanded by The People’s Union, the organization Schwarz started. It includes boycotts of various companies and retailers during different time periods including Amazon (March 7-14), Nestle (March 21-2, Walmart (April 7-14) and a second broader one-day economic blackout on April 18.

... I bet I don't even notice .. like last time
Posted by: SMOD at February 27, 2025 12:27 PM

The Judean People's front? Fuck off! Good, less crowds etc.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 27, 2025 12:31 PM (ewjUl)

248 241 Scott Jennings Asks CNN Panel for Examples of Trump ‘Shredding’ Constitution and They Can’t Give Any.
Posted by: SMOD at February 27, 2025 12:31 PM (RHGPo)

=======

Rumors are he's being asked to run for Mitch's Senate seat since he's from Kentucky.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)

249 Here are my guesses:

1) Hackman, 95, dies natural death. Wife finds him and decides she cannot live without him. Kills herself (pills) and the dog (because who will feed him?)

2) Murder-suicide. Wife kills him (he's too old to resist) then herself and the dog. Because reasons.

3) Suicide pact a la Heaven's Gate. Dog was in on it too.

Posted by: IrishEi at February 27, 2025 12:31 PM (3ImbR)

250 This all came as a surprise to me when I read this thread. All I heard was that he died and since he was 95 figured it was in a normal way.

Posted by: steevy at February 27, 2025 12:32 PM (KQk9m)

251 Requiescat in pace is Latin

Posted by: kallisto at February 27, 2025 12:32 PM (B4P5W)

252 FYI His wife was 30+years younger than he was.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 27, 2025 12:32 PM (t/2Uw)

253 Hackman always impressed me as someone who come up and hit you in the face for no reason, and you'd apologize.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 27, 2025 12:32 PM (CwhoI)

254 Gene made a lot of movies, but few clunkers. He always put in the work.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 27, 2025 12:32 PM (wBaIH)

255 Scott Turner
@SecretaryTurner

I have directed HUD to terminate the Biden-era AFFH Rule. Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing was nothing more than a “zoning tax.” It increased home costs & decreased the supply of affordable homes.

We're giving power back to local communities, not Washington bureaucrats.

Posted by: SMOD at February 27, 2025 12:32 PM (RHGPo)

256 249 Here are my guesses:

1) Hackman, 95, dies natural death. Wife finds him and decides she cannot live without him. Kills herself (pills) and the dog (because who will feed him?)

2) Murder-suicide. Wife kills him (he's too old to resist) then herself and the dog. Because reasons.

3) Suicide pact a la Heaven's Gate. Dog was in on it too.
Posted by: IrishEi at February 27, 2025 12:31 PM (3ImbR)

=======

4) Johnny English

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:32 PM (GBKbO)

257
"Where do you come up with these names?"

Posted by: HARRY ZIMM at February 27, 2025 12:32 PM (xG4kz)

258 He told USA TODAY he started the “bold” idea because the time was right and people are frustrated with what he calls corporate greed and other frustrations.

Boycotts are "bold"? Seriously? They're one of the most boring things in the left-wing playbook.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2025 12:33 PM (2ocoG)

259 Posted by: IrishEi at February 27, 2025 12:31 PM (3ImbR)

4) The Joan Rivers treatment

Posted by: Iasonas wants Comey in Jail at February 27, 2025 12:33 PM (gUzGB)

260 Best submarine battle on film?

Wrath of Khan.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Balance of Terror really didn't suck as an allegory.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 27, 2025 12:33 PM (vakLI)

261 WE GOTTA GO DOWN TO GO UP!

-
That's what I've been saying!

Posted by: NAACP Award Winner Kamala at February 27, 2025 12:33 PM (L/fGl)

262 Rumors are he's being asked to run for Mitch's Senate seat since he's from Kentucky.

------------------

Be a step down from the money he is making just smirking his away on CNN.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at February 27, 2025 12:33 PM (sX1BW)

263 I don't think with a suicide pact you tend to take the dog with you unless it is ritualistic, but I could be very very naive. Murder suicide sure.

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2025 12:33 PM (If0wl)

264 The Enemy Below is probably the best surface ship vs sub duel ( WW2 variety)

Posted by: steevy at February 27, 2025 12:33 PM (KQk9m)

265 Unforgiven and Hoosiers are two of my favorite movies of all time.

I hope there was no foul play involved as some reports are saying, but I don't trust anything the media or police spokespersons say anymore.

Posted by: Biergood at February 27, 2025 12:33 PM (PwgSL)

266 Uncommon Valor is under rated in my opinion.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 27, 2025 12:34 PM (2UnvF)

267 262 Be a step down from the money he is making just smirking his away on CNN.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at February 27, 2025 12:33 PM (sX1BW)

======

"Then he's being a Senator wrong."
-the Senate

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:34 PM (GBKbO)

268 Scott Jennings Asks CNN Panel for Examples of Trump ‘Shredding’ Constitution and They Can’t Give Any.

Posted by: SMOD at February 27, 2025 12:31 PM (RHGPo)
-

Jennings is great. I just watched it. Link:

https://tinyurl.com/9dnkpbew

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 12:34 PM (YfQh2)

269 198 How does the car chase in The French Connection compare with the one in Bullitt?
Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 12:26 PM (77rzZ)

Bullitt was the first, in 1968. Some insane high-speed driving in that one. Great editing. Like watching an auto stunt stunt show. The French Connection is more suspenseful to me. The train chase on New Utrecht Ave., under the N train in Brooklyn. The guy driving the bad guy car in the Bullitt chase was a real stunt driver, and also had a role in The French Connection as a federal office (Bill Hickman.)

Posted by: front toward enemy at February 27, 2025 12:34 PM (TIizU)

270 btw, You People need Ginko Biloba or Geritol, or something.
Posted by: Soothsayer
-----

Omega XL.

Posted by: John Walsh, exercising his polo ponies at February 27, 2025 12:34 PM (XeU6L)

271
I watched The Outfit (1973) recently. Good flick.

btw, Robert Duvall is 94.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 27, 2025 12:34 PM (WyTdk)

272
No one has mentioned Hackman as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde, so I will. He had fun with that one.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 27, 2025 12:27 PM (o5+a9)

_________

It takes Hollywood assholes to try to make two psychopaths like Bonnie and Clyde into a doomed romantic tragedy. I'm happy Hamer and the boys didn't spare any bullets eradicating them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 27, 2025 12:34 PM (sotcV)

273 FYI His wife was 30+years younger than he was.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 27, 2025 12:32 PM (t/2Uw)

#legend

Posted by: Doof at February 27, 2025 12:34 PM (Uq+qx)

274 The plot thickens.

Unsecured door, pills opened, 'obe' of the digs dead....

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 27, 2025 12:34 PM (ufFY8)

275 Requiescat in pace is Latin
Posted by: kallisto at February 27, 2025 12:32 PM (B4P5W)
------------
Proto-Italian.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 27, 2025 12:35 PM (6K6Eu)

276 Funny Hackman story. I have never met the man but have known A LOT of people who have. They would not stop talking about how big of a jerk he was on-set, how difficult he was to work with, impossible to get along with from other actors. I heard that over and over for years. Basically the worst person alive.

Fast-forward to about 5 years ago and I met a guy who did some plumbing on his homes. "Super nice guy but god damn did he hate Hollywood people!".

Posted by: No one. at February 27, 2025 12:35 PM (CQ3Qb)

277 27 Nice tribute to Hackman from James Woods on X.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2025 12:09 PM (LkLld)

James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
26m
One of my first movies was a nice supporting role in a movie called NIGHT MOVES. I was excited, of course, because I was going to get to work with every young actor’s hero, Gene Hackman. And, since they were in town visiting, I was going to be able to invite my mom and stepfather to the set and hopefully they could meet Gene. It went far beyond a polite hello, as Gene spent an hour chatting with them, genuinely interested in their lives. That day was a model for me going forward. I have always prided myself on the way I treat fans, visitors, and friends. And I thank Gene for it. As an actor he was without equal, and as a man, he was one of a kind. Rest in peace, sir.

Posted by: m at February 27, 2025 12:35 PM (v0TzN)

278 179 > what could possibly be a motive for murdering a 95 year old retired actor

Old grudge.
Borderline personality who had a fixation.
Drug deal gone bad.
Lifetime criminal was looking for money/thrill/whatever.
Crazy neighbor.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 27, 2025 12:25 PM (lIio7)

Handyman robbery
Underpaid cleaning lady
Pelosi guy copycat

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 27, 2025 12:35 PM (w4nzS)

279 Hackman, 95, dies natural death. Wife finds him and decides she cannot live without him. Kills herself (pills) and the dog (because who will feed him?)
------
Two other dogs were found alive....
Probably carbon monoxide and the other two dogs were in a different part of the house or had a doggy door.

Posted by: lin-duh at February 27, 2025 12:35 PM (OW907)

280 btw, Robert Duvall is 94.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 27

Duvall and Hackman are my all time favorite actors.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 27, 2025 12:35 PM (ewjUl)

281 You know who was a real trailblazer in terms of filming fast cars?

Roger Corman

The Young Racers is the first movie with the actual actors in the seat of the cars actually being driven fast and filmed on actual tracks instead of stunt performers or using rear-projection.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:35 PM (GBKbO)

282 It takes Hollywood assholes to try to make two psychopaths like Bonnie and Clyde into a doomed romantic tragedy. I'm happy Hamer and the boys didn't spare any bullets eradicating them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 27, 2025 12:34 PM (sotcV)
---------------

Yeah, that torqued me. I saw the film and liked it, then when I found out what psychos Bonnie and Clyde were, it aggravated me, to say the least.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 27, 2025 12:36 PM (tT6L1)

283
Barely Animatronic Plank of Wood* Sharon Stone

B-b-b-b-but ... CROTCH SHOT!

Posted by: FAN BOYZZZzzzzzzzzzz at February 27, 2025 12:36 PM (xG4kz)

284 Mad Dog Coll was his first movie. He had a brief non speaking part as a cop.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 27, 2025 12:36 PM (bHGBC)

285
Queer Stormer is now at the White House, and he looks like an old dyke.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 27, 2025 12:36 PM (WyTdk)

286 276 Funny Hackman story. I have never met the man but have known A LOT of people who have. They would not stop talking about how big of a jerk he was on-set, how difficult he was to work with, impossible to get along with from other actors. I heard that over and over for years. Basically the worst person alive.

Fast-forward to about 5 years ago and I met a guy who did some plumbing on his homes. "Super nice guy but god damn did he hate Hollywood people!".
Posted by: No one. at February 27, 2025 12:35 PM (CQ3Qb)

Ha!

Posted by: m at February 27, 2025 12:36 PM (v0TzN)

287 JFK Jr says Pope died on the 25th.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 27, 2025 12:16 PM (gbOdA)

Well, JFK Jr has been dead for a while so he'd know.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 12:36 PM (ExV1e)

288 156 - They're remaking that one, this time it's a Delta Airlines jet upside down and floating in Lake Michigan.

So, the remake will be a documentary this time?

Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 27, 2025 12:36 PM (q3u5l)

289 The "mummy" business reminds me too of a Larry Niven novelette, a Gil Hamilton impossible crime story. The body of a billonaire inventor is found inside a red-lt field in his living room, and a time-accelerator he'd invented is in there with him -- so he's decaying and drying out even as the investigators watch. The "impossible" part is, how did the killer get out of the building. But the surreal effect of the murder scene is memorable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 12:36 PM (J2vNu)

290 We know how old Hackman and wife were, but how old was the dog?

Posted by: In Human Years, I Mean at February 27, 2025 12:36 PM (G5+As)

291 btw, Robert Duvall is 94.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 27

Duvall and Hackman are my all time favorite actors.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 27, 2025 12:35 PM (ewjUl)

Both can play bad guys really well.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 12:36 PM (cwGMH)

292 The actors and athletes we identified with were 15-25 years older than us.
No surprise we've been losing them at a good clip lately.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 27, 2025 12:37 PM (n4GiU)

293 Zinn: *smiling* Look at me, Ray.

Ray Barboni: YOU WANT ME TO LOOK AT YOU?

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 27, 2025 12:37 PM (lEahz)

294 The guy driving the bad guy car in the Bullitt chase was a real stunt driver, and also had a role in The French Connection as a federal office (Bill Hickman.)

IIRC, Bill Hickman was the guy James Dean was racing when he was killed.

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 12:37 PM (77rzZ)

295 Hackman playing General Sosabowski in A Bridge Too Far kept pronouncing the Germans with a hard G. Kind of odd
In real life the general for a while after the war ended up working as a laborer in England

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 27, 2025 12:37 PM (EG7Bp)

296 If you haven't seen it, get Heist. One of Gene's best later movies. Lots of twists and you gotta watch all the way to the end.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at February 27, 2025 12:37 PM (P7Iz+)

297
IIRC, Bill Hickman was the guy James Dean was racing when he was killed.
Posted by: Bulg

Dobie Gillis killed Jams Dean??

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 27, 2025 12:38 PM (WyTdk)

298 Funny thing to consider - Biden could have released these files at any point in his 4 years.

There is really only one reason to not do so which is to protect the Epstein clients themselves, which matches the zero arrests of Epstein clients under his administration

--

I can't help but wonder how much this list has been tampered with in the years it's been in the government's hands.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 27, 2025 12:38 PM (qBdHI)

299 If he does, he'll have horns, not a halo.

Posted by: Iasonas wants Comey in Jail

Indeed.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 27, 2025 12:38 PM (bK7PL)

300 Don't know what happens but I've noticed the maker seems to like surprises.
So when I die, I'll see a big sign that says part 2. Merge right.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 27, 2025 12:38 PM (J8LnB)

301 300

Posted by: m at February 27, 2025 12:38 PM (v0TzN)

302 A lot of the free Poles who fought in WW2 wound up settling in the UK

Posted by: steevy at February 27, 2025 12:39 PM (KQk9m)

303 James Dean died outside Paso Robles CA on the way to a race. He was not racing at the time. Also, it appears the accident was the fault of the other driver.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at February 27, 2025 12:39 PM (P7Iz+)

304 Actual dictator just arrived at the WH:

https://tinyurl.com/4eyxk4ba

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 12:39 PM (YfQh2)

305 Faye Dunaway was hawt in Bonnie and Clyde.

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 12:39 PM (77rzZ)

306 Prime Ministers used to have solid names, up until Boris Johnson, and then they all sounded like George Lucas characters.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 27, 2025 12:39 PM (lEahz)

307 How does the car chase in The French Connection compare with the one in Bullitt?
Posted by: Bulg
----

As an aside, all four shock mounts broke on the Charger when it landed on the first street jump. I noted also that the Mustang exhibited axle tramp when wheel spinning.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 27, 2025 12:39 PM (XeU6L)

308 FYI His wife was 30+years younger than he was.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 27, 2025 12:32 PM (t/2Uw)

#legend
Posted by: Doof

Legend when you are 95.
Creepy when you are 39.
Ain't that right Mohammed?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 12:39 PM (NiXiP)

309 Lex Luthor: [to Otis] Do you know why the number two hundred is so vitally descriptive to both you and me? It's your weight and my I.Q.

Imagine. It wasn't that long ago the 200lbs was an insult to someone being comically overweight...

Save us, RFK Jr!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 27, 2025 12:40 PM (o/h20)

310
I flew on the same small plane with him once to Wilmington, NC. He was going through what looked like artwork (his?) -- sketches -- during the flight.

Like all of my encounters with those known to the broader public, I leave such people be and simply think, "Hmmm, well how about that?". That includes having been seated alongside Dennis Connor, of losing the America's Cup fame, who was nattily dressed as a swell who engaged in the yachtical arts.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 12:40 PM (xG4kz)

311 Hackman playing General Sosabowski in A Bridge Too Far kept pronouncing the Germans with a hard G. Kind of odd
In real life the general for a while after the war ended up working as a laborer in England
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 27, 2025 12:37 PM (EG7Bp)
---------
I believe Sosabowski was one of the advisers on the film. If he pronounced "Germans" with a hard "G," that's something Hackman would have picked up on.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 27, 2025 12:40 PM (6K6Eu)

312 What I have read about the (great) car chase in Bulitt is that if you know San Francisco it makes no sense georgraphically

Posted by: steevy at February 27, 2025 12:40 PM (KQk9m)

313 Jamaal Bowman Ed.D.@JamaalBowmanNY
Dear Elon and Trump,
Y’all are pissing off a lot of white people who voted for yall.
Your own cabinet is not following Elons directives.
Yall are agents of chaos.
Gonna hurt you in the midterms.
Stay woke!
---
Continuing to prove not only do they not know why they lost last year, and not only do they refuse to inquire why but also that wouldn't be able to find out even if they did ask.

Watch the Cabinet meeting yesterday.
The Boss said, "I approved him sending that."
Musk said, "I sent it as directed by the Boss"
The Boss said, "anyone here have a problem with that?"
The Cabinet: "NO SIR!! NO PROBLEM, SIR!!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 27, 2025 12:40 PM (iQHOh)

314 Prime Ministers used to have solid names, up until Boris Johnson, and then they all sounded like George Lucas characters.

Posted by: BourbonChicken

---

And also Boutros Boutros Ghali.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 27, 2025 12:40 PM (vakLI)

315 FASTER! FASTER!!!

Rep. Andy Ogles
@RepOgles
11m
🔥NEW ARTICLES DROPPED🔥

I just formally introduced articles of impeachment against corrupt U.S. District Judge Amir Ali.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 12:40 PM (YfQh2)

316 *An epithet normally applied only to Kevin Costner
Posted by: Sharkman at February 27, 2025 12:16 PM
---

Mr.Brooks has a really good performance from Costner.

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 27, 2025 12:41 PM (+Fa78)

317
The guy driving the bad guy car in the Bullitt chase was a real stunt driver, and also had a role in The French Connection as a federal office (Bill Hickman.)

__________

Something I read suggested that Hickman's character, Muldrig, was tipping Frog One off and that's why he was in the warehouse, where he got shot.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 27, 2025 12:41 PM (sotcV)

318 304 Actual dictator just arrived at the WH:

https://tinyurl.com/4eyxk4ba
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 12:39 PM (YfQh2)

heh

Posted by: m at February 27, 2025 12:41 PM (v0TzN)

319 The local news (KOB) has additional details from the police report. Front door unlocked/open. Hackman and wife dead in the kitchen, he on the floor, her against the countertop. Dog dead in a closet.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 27, 2025 12:41 PM (O38oM)

320 James Dean died outside Paso Robles CA on the way to a race. He was not racing at the time. Also, it appears the accident was the fault of the other driver.
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz

OK, thanks. Didn't know that. But Bill Hickman was somehow involved.

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 12:41 PM (77rzZ)

321 Apologies if I've missed it, but has there been any update on Ciampino today? Saw on last night's ONT that his daughter dropped by to say they had to call an ambulance due to his inability to walk or stand up.

Posted by: Doof at February 27, 2025 12:41 PM (Uq+qx)

322 Probably carbon monoxide and the other two dogs were in a different part of the house or had a doggy door.
Posted by: lin-duh at February 27, 2025 12:35 PM (OW907)
~~~~~

lin-duh, lin-duh, linduh! Where is your sense of intrigue?!

Posted by: IrishEi at February 27, 2025 12:41 PM (3ImbR)

323 It begins and ends with Das Boot.
----------------
Yep. And on a big screen.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 12:42 PM (pLaQB)

324 Clint Eastwood has a new girlfriend after his previous one died in 2024 of a heart attack ate the age of 61.

That's your Hollywood horndog.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 12:42 PM (cwGMH)

325 230 Loved Ronin but can no longer watch it because Robert Deniro is in it...

Posted by: steevy at February 27, 2025 12:30 PM

They gave me a grasshopper.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 27, 2025 12:42 PM (+oR7L)

326 305 Faye Dunaway was hawt in Bonnie and Clyde.
Posted by: Bulg

Faye is leggy 5'9". Bonnie was a Munchkin.

Posted by: Up With Legs! at February 27, 2025 12:42 PM (G5+As)

327 William Friedkin shot The French Connection all over NYC with no filming permits. All location shooting, no studio. He used a wheeled office chair as a camera dolly. It was the ultimate low-budget punk production. Obviously very influenced by Bullitt, but still one of the greatest cop movies ever made.

Posted by: front toward enemy at February 27, 2025 12:42 PM (TIizU)

328 > Jennings is great. I just watched it. Link:

It's so frustrating watching these people emote while pretending they're making rational arguments.

"Trump's shredding the constitution."

Ok, how?

"I think he's going to appoint someone to head the military who will shred the constitution."

That's conjecture at this time, and not proof.

"Do I need to give you a civics lesson?"

No, just give examples of how Trump is shredding the constitution.

"DOGE's design is to shrink the government to the point the government can't resist Trump."

There's no proof of that. It does prove you believe the Executive bureaucracy under Trump should have the power to contravene the President.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 27, 2025 12:42 PM (lIio7)

329 Legend when you are 95.
Creepy when you are 39.
Ain't that right Mohammed?
Posted by: rickb223

Hey! I was about 50 when I married her (she was 6), but because she was ill and her hair fell out (gross!) I had to wait until she was 9 before I could consummate things. I'm a gentleman like that.

Posted by: Muhammad at February 27, 2025 12:43 PM (o/h20)

330 Didn't he do a Movie where it was just him and some injured/dying Alien?

Alien Mine or some shit?

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2025 12:43 PM (oa1NA)

331 319 The local news (KOB) has additional details from the police report. Front door unlocked/open. Hackman and wife dead in the kitchen, he on the floor, her against the countertop. Dog dead in a closet.
----------------
This does smell like Ninja Assassins.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 12:43 PM (pLaQB)

332 Yeah, that torqued me. I saw the film and liked it, then when I found out what psychos Bonnie and Clyde were, it aggravated me, to say the least.

--

You gotta love Dunaway's very obvious and dated 60s hairstyle in that. Definitely not true to the 1930s styles.

Incidentally, I once read a book by the real Blanche Barrow, wife of Buck (played by Hackman). She said the way Estelle Parsons played her...all the shrieking and hysterics to the point of hilarity...annoyed her. She said she wasn't anything like the character was portrayed.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 27, 2025 12:43 PM (qBdHI)

333 Hackman playing General Sosabowski in A Bridge Too Far kept pronouncing the Germans with a hard G. Kind of odd
In real life the general for a while after the war ended up working as a laborer in England
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 27, 2025 12:37 PM (EG7Bp)
---------
I believe Sosabowski was one of the advisers on the film. If he pronounced "Germans" with a hard "G," that's something Hackman would have picked up on.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

"Germany" ("Germaniya") is pronounced with a hard "g" in Russian. Probably the same in Polish.

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 12:44 PM (77rzZ)

334 Geez, Starmer *does* look like an old lesbian.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 27, 2025 12:44 PM (6K6Eu)

335 James Dean died outside Paso Robles CA on the way to a race. He was not racing at the time. Also, it appears the accident was the fault of the other driver.
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at February 27, 2025

***
People only remember Dean now because he died young. I don't think his "inarticulate but emotional" shtick would have lasted, had he lived.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 12:44 PM (J2vNu)

336 FYI His wife was 30+years younger than he was.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 27, 2025 12:32 PM (t/2Uw)

#legend
Posted by: Doof

Legend when you are 95.
Creepy when you are 39.
Ain't that right Mohammed?
Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 12:39 PM (NiXiP)

What about mid-50s? Asking for a friend

Posted by: Doof at February 27, 2025 12:44 PM (Uq+qx)

337 328
"DOGE's design is to shrink the government to the point the government can't resist Trump."

There's no proof of that. It does prove you believe the Executive bureaucracy under Trump should have the power to contravene the President.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 27, 2025 12:42 PM (lIio7)

=======

"Why do you think the people of the United States should have no say in how the executive branch of the federal government runs? Where does it say, in the Constitution, that the executive branch of the federal government is 'non-political'?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:44 PM (GBKbO)

338 To me, "mummified" implies something that is done by other humans to the body, like the ancient Egyptians used to do to their pharaohs. "Mummy-like," however, would suggest that the skin had dried and crackled up after death in the natural course of things in a dry climate like Santa Fe.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 12:23 PM (J2vNu)
---
Will the judges accept "desiccated?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 27, 2025 12:44 PM (7fElN)

339 Eastwood has at least 6 baby mommas.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 12:44 PM (cwGMH)

340 Hackman was a real workaday guy. Always showed up for practice. Never complained.

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2025 12:44 PM (If0wl)

341 339 Eastwood has at least 6 baby mommas.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 12:44 PM (cwGMH)

========

And he just has to keep buying houses for them for some reason.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

342 264 The Enemy Below was a favorite of an old friend and mentor. He served on a Buckley Class in the Atlantic in his teens. The Skipper was maybe 24 with "orders to patrol".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 27, 2025 12:45 PM (gm9Sb)

343 Tip for Pam Bondi (those in her position): if you say you're going to release information of great public interest, and moreover have been ordered to do so, do it. Don't make false promises or equivocate.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 27, 2025 12:45 PM (ZlOcj)

344 ***
People only remember Dean now because he died young. I don't think his "inarticulate but emotional" shtick would have lasted, had he lived.

Or maybe he would have grown as an actor. We'll never know.

Posted by: steevy at February 27, 2025 12:45 PM (KQk9m)

345 btw, Robert Duvall is 94.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 27

Duvall and Hackman are my all time favorite actors.
Posted by: Minnfidel

Clint Eastwood 94.

Posted by: Cheri at February 27, 2025 12:45 PM (oiNtH)

346 Alien Mine or some shit?
Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2025 12:43 PM (oa1NA)

Enemy Mine?

Is there a green lizard guy in it?

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2025 12:45 PM (If0wl)

347 After reading the accounts of what was going on w Hugh Hefner in his final days with his "girlfriends." I gotta say the whole Hollywood May-December thing is more Ugh than Legendary.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 27, 2025 12:45 PM (vakLI)

348 345
Clint Eastwood 94.
Posted by: Cheri at February 27, 2025 12:45 PM (oiNtH)

=======

And directed a movie last year. And word is he's trying to direct another.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:46 PM (GBKbO)

349 Clint Eastwood has a new girlfriend after his previous one died in 2024 of a heart attack ate the age of 61.

That's your Hollywood horndog.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Clint is in his 90's. That's legend status.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 12:46 PM (NiXiP)

350 More important:

EXPOSED: J6 Committee Member Jamie Raskin's $160M USAID Connection! 🚨

https://tinyurl.com/2j7jr7mu

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 12:07 PM (YfQh2)
-

More:

https://tinyurl.com/3hznjx6k

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 12:46 PM (YfQh2)

351 Prime Ministers used to have solid names, up until Boris Johnson, and then they all sounded like George Lucas characters.

Posted by: BourbonChicken
------------

Prime Minister Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov

Posted by: John Derbyshire at February 27, 2025 12:46 PM (XeU6L)

352 Hmmm...so, when I am 61, I should marry some hot 29 year old broad, then I will live to be 95?

Sounds good.

Just have to write a note to remind me to keep the window open.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 27, 2025 12:46 PM (ufFY8)

353 I saw Clint Eastwood at the DGA about 10 years ago. He would have been 84. He walked past me. His posture was perfect and his belly was flat. That's what I remember.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 27, 2025 12:47 PM (ZlOcj)

354 And directed a movie last year. And word is he's trying to direct another.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:46 PM (GBKbO

Well it's not like he wastes time getting additional takes or anything.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 27, 2025 12:47 PM (MGB5H)

355 Food!

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 12:47 PM (77rzZ)

356 326 305 Faye Dunaway was hawt in Bonnie and Clyde.
Posted by: Bulg

Faye is leggy 5'9". Bonnie was a Munchkin.
Posted by: Up With Legs

Faye Valentine > Faye Dunaway

https://tinyurl.com/yew29695

Leggy, busty, AND a badass!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 27, 2025 12:47 PM (o/h20)

357 Dog dead in a closet.
----------------
This does smell like Ninja Assassins.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 12:43 PM (pLaQB)
~~~~~

My dog locks himself in the closet all the time.

wait...

Posted by: IrishEi at February 27, 2025 12:47 PM (3ImbR)

358 Eastwood has at least 6 baby mommas.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

How many are still alive?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 12:47 PM (NiXiP)

359 People only remember Dean now because he died young. I don't think his "inarticulate but emotional" shtick would have lasted, had he lived.

Or maybe he would have grown as an actor. We'll never know.
------------------
Brando's inarticulate but emotional mumbling seems to have worked.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 12:47 PM (pLaQB)

360 >>Enemy Mine?

>Is there a green lizard guy in it?

Yes.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2025 12:47 PM (oa1NA)

361 We like to talk about leggy but even an average height woman can have GREAT legs. I just want to clarify this common misperception.

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2025 12:47 PM (If0wl)

362 354 And directed a movie last year. And word is he's trying to direct another.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:46 PM (GBKbO

Well it's not like he wastes time getting additional takes or anything.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 27, 2025 12:47 PM (MGB5H)

======

"1 or 2 good takes," is how everyone describes it.

But yeah. He's not Kubrick trying to get that one...little...thing that he won't describe to the actors.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO)

363 I remember seeing something out of the Papacy claiming the Pope was resting.

Look, I took the liberty of examining that Pope when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 27, 2025 12:47 PM (ExV1e)

364 330 Didn't he do a Movie where it was just him and some injured/dying Alien?

Alien Mine or some shit?
Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2025 12:43 PM (oa1NA)

That was Dennis Quaid and Louis Gosset, Jr. Enemy Mine.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 27, 2025 12:47 PM (PiwSw)

365 I saw Bonnie and Clyde at the Drive-In with my parents. I was 8 or 9 years old.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 12:47 PM (VofaG)

366 Will the judges accept "desiccated?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 27, 2025 12:44 PM (7fElN)
-

Sun dried?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 12:48 PM (YfQh2)

367 You can't have any affinity for team sports and not love Hoosiers. 2nd best movie ever after The Shawshank Redemption.

And Christopher Reeve as Superman with Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor (and John Williams' main theme music) is the beginning and end of films with those characters. Henry Cavill was ok, but Superman should be American

Hackman was great in lots of stuff but those were his best. RIP Gene. Hope whatever happened was peaceful...

Posted by: bearski at February 27, 2025 12:48 PM (Bhsk7)

368 357 Dog dead in a closet.
----------------
This does smell like Ninja Assassins.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 12:43 PM (pLaQB)
~~~~~

My dog locks himself in the closet all the time.

wait...
---------------
BOLO for Ninja throwing stars.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 12:48 PM (pLaQB)

369 Clint Eastwood doesn't mention Gene Hackman yet on twitter. But he has a mention of Roberta Flack, from a few days ago:

Clint Eastwood
@EastwoodMalpaso
Feb 24
Rest in Peace Roberta Flack...

Posted by: m at February 27, 2025 12:48 PM (v0TzN)

370 357 Dog dead in a closet.
----------------
This does smell like Ninja Assassins.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 12:43 PM (pLaQB)

=========

I told you people!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:48 PM (GBKbO)

371 I'v never seen French Connection, so I have no idea how its car chase goes. But the one in Bullitt is unusual, for two reasons. First, it happens near the *midpoint* of the film, not at the climax.

Second, it takes its time to develop. Bullitt spends more than a few minutes, suspenseful ones, playing cat-and-mouse with the assassins in the Charger -- and only then does the chase take off. A lesser director or screenwriter would have had teh chase kick off immediately. No, it builds.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 12:49 PM (J2vNu)

372 But yeah. He's not Kubrick trying to get that one...little...thing that he won't describe to the actors.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO

Rookie numbers
-David Fincher.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 27, 2025 12:49 PM (MGB5H)

373 One of the best actors around.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 27, 2025 12:49 PM (xh4bt)

374 Faye Valentine > Faye Dunaway

https://tinyurl.com/yew29695

Leggy, busty, AND a badass!
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 27, 2025 12:47 PM (o/h20)
---------------

Hmm, and I was expecting Blimpo the Busty. Instead, I get, well, I'm not sure what that was, exactly.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 27, 2025 12:49 PM (tT6L1)

375 Headlines in CO say a woman has been arrested in Loveland for prior vandalism and now planting explosives at a Tesla dealership. "She" is a he. Lucy Grace Nelson, 40, is facing 4 felony counts. Police and jail records list him as female with an alias of Justin Thomas Nelson. Looking at his picture, he is totally a dude and not even pretending to be a female.

Loser.

Posted by: Cheri at February 27, 2025 12:49 PM (oiNtH)

376 What about mid-50s? Asking for a friend
Posted by: Doof

Seducing impressionable, young girls with a Disco Ball is a crime in many states.

Posted by: Act Your Age, A Message From AARP at February 27, 2025 12:49 PM (G5+As)

377 ow many are still alive?
Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 12:47 PM (NiXiP)

3

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 12:50 PM (VofaG)

378 Look at Keir Starmer's stupid fucking smile when he meets Trump:

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/
1895167776748139003

He's giddy to meet Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

379 Alien Mine or some shit?

Dennis Quaid and Lou Gossett Jr.

Posted by: Halfhand at February 27, 2025 12:50 PM (sHoES)

380 319 Dog dead in a closet.
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 27, 2025 12:41 PM (O38oM)

Dead dog in the middle of the road.

Posted by: m at February 27, 2025 12:50 PM (v0TzN)

381
Jamaal Bowman Ed.D.

Missing your harem of Squaddies, "Doctor I Sho' 'Nuff Thought That Was An Open 'N' Close Switch Fo' De Do'"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 12:50 PM (xG4kz)

382 372 Rookie numbers
-David Fincher.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 27, 2025 12:49 PM (MGB5H)

=======

"Y'all be just following in my footsteps."
-Chaplin

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

383 The Enemy Below was a favorite of an old friend and mentor. He served on a Buckley Class in the Atlantic in his teens. The Skipper was maybe 24 with "orders to patrol".
Posted by: bill in arkansas
------

Had a friend, now passed, who at age 20 became the lead navigator for an entire squadron of B-24's in the Pacific.

Posted by: John Derbyshire at February 27, 2025 12:50 PM (XeU6L)

384 >>That was Dennis Quaid and Louis Gosset, Jr. Enemy Mine.

Cappy?

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2025 12:50 PM (oa1NA)

385 Seducing impressionable, young girls with a Disco Ball is a crime in many states.
Posted by: Act Your Age, A Message From AARP at February 27, 2025 12:49 PM (G5+As)

Dang ol' wha' ya talkin' bout, man?

Posted by: Jeff Boomhauer at February 27, 2025 12:51 PM (PiwSw)

386 You know who else died with his wife and his dog?

Posted by: eleven at February 27, 2025 12:51 PM (0HaGk)

387 3
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Was Sondra Locke one? Or just a girlfriend?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 12:51 PM (NiXiP)

388 So. Gene Hackman played Louis Gossett Jr in Enemy Mine?

Got it.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2025 12:51 PM (oa1NA)

389 All of you are looking in the wrong direction for the nice gals. Look toward those who may have a few years on you.

Works quite well for the lovely Mrs. Blake and I.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 27, 2025 12:51 PM (tT6L1)

390 371 I'v never seen French Connection, so I have no idea how its car chase goes. But the one in Bullitt is unusual, for two reasons.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 12:49 PM (J2vNu)

A third reason. It happens totally without music.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 27, 2025 12:52 PM (ZlOcj)

391 Food!
Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 12:47 PM (77rzZ)

Howdy, Glub

Posted by: Doof at February 27, 2025 12:52 PM (Uq+qx)

392 lint Eastwood doesn't mention Gene Hackman yet on twitter. But he has a mention of Roberta Flack, from a few days ago:

Clint Eastwood
@EastwoodMalpaso
Feb 24
Rest in Peace Roberta Flack...
Posted by: m at February 27, 2025 12:48 PM (v0TzN)

he used her music in a few of his films.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 12:52 PM (VofaG)

393 223

CO

Posted by: cccp3o at February 27, 2025 12:52 PM (xCBrF)

394 Dog dead in a closet.
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 27, 2025 12:41 PM (O38oM)

Dead dog in the middle of the road.
Posted by: m

Let's eat!
Posted by: Barky Obola

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 12:52 PM (NiXiP)

395 387 Was Sondra Locke one? Or just a girlfriend?
Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 12:51 PM (NiXiP)

=======

Sondra Locke on the poster for The Gauntlet >>>>>>>>>>>> Sondra Locke in real life

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:52 PM (GBKbO)

396 So. Gene Hackman played Louis Gossett Jr in Enemy Mine?

Got it.
Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2025 12:51 PM (oa1NA)
---------
The dude playing the dude disguised as another dude.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 27, 2025 12:52 PM (6K6Eu)

397 Hmm, and I was expecting Blimpo the Busty. Instead, I get, well, I'm not sure what that was, exactly.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker

Thats Man-Faye, and internet legend. He has been banned from many anime conventions because Leftists don't like crossdressing, or something...

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 27, 2025 12:53 PM (o/h20)

398 Nood-a-licious..

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at February 27, 2025 12:53 PM (NJshq)

399 Had a friend, now passed, who at age 20 became the lead navigator for an entire squadron of B-24's in the Pacific.
---------------
My uncle, a graduate from the Merchant Marine Academy, was Captain of his own Liberty Ship at age 19. It always depends when you were born. My uncle was the youngest man aboard, too.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 12:53 PM (pLaQB)

400 Wolfgang Peterson did Das Boot and Enemy Mine amongst others . Died a a couple years back.
Did not direct Das Butt however

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 27, 2025 12:53 PM (EG7Bp)

401 All of you are looking in the wrong direction for the nice gals. Look toward those who may have a few years on you.

Works quite well for the lovely Mrs. Blake and I.
Posted by: blake

You - 39
Her - 64 But she has four hundred acres that's never been hunted on.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 12:54 PM (NiXiP)

402 osted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Was Sondra Locke one? Or just a girlfriend?
Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 12:51 PM (NiXiP)

no. according to her Eastwood made her get two abortions. I believe her. He didn't have the highest moral standards.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 12:54 PM (VofaG)

403 >>Mr.Brooks has a really good performance from Costner.

Costner mailed it in in The Big Chill.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 27, 2025 12:54 PM (Y1sOo)

404 People only remember Dean now because he died young. I don't think his "inarticulate but emotional" shtick would have lasted, had he lived.
*
Or maybe he would have grown as an actor. We'll never know.
Posted by: steevy at February 27, 2025

***
Yeah, I think he'd have had to grow. Or audiences would have tired of him playing roles like Rebel or Giant[/i, and especially East of Eden.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 12:54 PM (J2vNu)

405 Posted by: eleven at February 27, 2025 12:51 PM (0HaGk)

Lol

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2025 12:54 PM (If0wl)

406 he used her music in a few of his films.

--

Yes, there's a memorable and sort of sensuous scene in Play Misty for Me with Clint and Donna Mills. Roberta Flack's 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face..' is playing.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 27, 2025 12:54 PM (qBdHI)

407 131 I see nobody has mentioned The Conversation yet. That was an excellent movie.
Posted by: Archimedes

-------------------

Yeah, most film geeks would jump at that when talking Hackman. I actually liked Hugh Grant's line in "The Gentleman" about that: "Coppola slipped that one out between the Godfathers. It wasn't really for me. It's a bit boring, to be honest..." I do like how they re-booted the character a bit in Enemy of the State. Good popcorn movie and Hackman was good and a fun nod to The Conversation...

Posted by: bearski at February 27, 2025 12:54 PM (Bhsk7)

408

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 12:55 PM (J2vNu)

409 357 Dog dead in a closet.
---

With a tie around his neck and the clothes bar with his lipstick out? Because I have a theory...

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 27, 2025 12:55 PM (17s+e)

410 This sounds very promising:

@BehizyTweets
24m
BREAKING: White House Counselor Alina Habba just said she “absolutely” expects criminal charges to be filed after the Epstein files are released.

Posted by: IrishEi at February 27, 2025 12:55 PM (3ImbR)

411 390 371 I'v never seen French Connection, so I have no idea how its car chase goes. But the one in Bullitt is unusual, for two reasons.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 12:49 PM (J2vNu)

A third reason. It happens totally without music.
---------------
Its obvious that the director was mesmerized by machinery. Just watch it again and see him focus on mechanical contraptions doing mechanical things. Its kind of like your son in the sand box with construction vehicles.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 12:56 PM (pLaQB)

412 Bat 21

I rest my case.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 27, 2025 12:56 PM (bK7PL)

413 He was no Brian Dennehy.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 27, 2025 12:57 PM (PyS23)

414 Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 27, 2025 12:55 PM (17s+e)
~~~~~

Lipstick.

Why did you do that to me? That visual will never leave me.

Posted by: IrishEi at February 27, 2025 12:57 PM (3ImbR)

415 Its obvious that the director was mesmerized by machinery. Just watch it again and see him focus on mechanical contraptions doing mechanical things. Its kind of like your son in the sand box with construction vehicles.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 12:56 PM (pLaQB)

The director, Peter Yates, had just come off directing a British film that featured a mind-boggling car chase. It was allegedly a main reason McQueen wanted him.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 27, 2025 12:57 PM (ZlOcj)

416 Hackman was one of those actors who could play a really good hero or a really vicious villain and you'd still like him either way.

He never really got typecast, did he?

From a dickhead detective, to a basketball coach, to a super-villain, to just an ordinary guy saving people on a sinking cruise-liner, he played them all - well.

As a kid from the 80s I'll always think of him as Lex Luthor, but I think my favorite role of his was Little Bill in Unforgiven - I love that flick.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 27, 2025 12:57 PM (6ydKt)

417 Gene Hackman had information which would put Hillary Clinton behind bars.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2025 12:58 PM (63Dwl)

418 Eastwood has at least 6 baby mommas.
------------
Sondra Locke was beautiful!

Posted by: Crusader at February 27, 2025 12:58 PM (TN0g+)

419 A final note on the car chase scenes in 'Bullit'. When the Charger crashes into the gas station, one might wonder how they rigged that. The answer is that it was towed, and released on target.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 27, 2025 12:58 PM (XeU6L)

420 Will the judges accept "desiccated?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 27, 2025 12:44 PM (7fElN)

--

Hell, I'm alive in New Mexico (as far as I know) and my skin takes on that appearance if I don't put a ton of lotion on daily.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 27, 2025 12:58 PM (O38oM)

421 The main reason for viewing The Unforgiven is the end gunfight. IMHO, best ever filmed. I had that scene and only that scene on the DVR for years and would watch it regularly.... 6-10 times at a viewing.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 27, 2025 12:59 PM (17s+e)

422 >>Mr.Brooks has a really good performance from Costner.

Costner mailed it in in The Big Chill.
Posted by: one hour sober at February 27, 2025 12:54 PM

ISWYDT

Definitely playing to his strength as an actor.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2025 12:59 PM (jc0TO)

423 Look at Keir Starmer's stupid fucking smile when he meets Trump:

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/
1895167776748139003

He's giddy to meet Trump.
---
There's a funny clip of Trump walking behind the crown prince of Saudi.
He's sitting there scowling.
I guess it's protocol not to touch him?
Anyway, Trump walk past behind him, pats him on the shoulder, prince looks left, sees no one, looks right, sees Trump; smiles.
Gotcha.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 27, 2025 01:02 PM (iQHOh)

424 Clint Eastwood doesn't mention Gene Hackman yet on twitter. But he has a mention of Roberta Flack, from a few days ago:

Does that make you suspicious?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 27, 2025 01:03 PM (0T4H0)

425 This really bummed me out today. Hackman was a guy who was good in everything, even genre movies that not all Oscar winners would do. Anyone seen "The Package", where he's a Special Forces sergeant that gets dragged into this big assassination plot? Really great movie.

Posted by: UGAdawg at February 27, 2025 01:04 PM (PdCV0)

426 It's a shame Hackman couldn't have held on a little longer...I was going to make espresso.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 27, 2025 01:07 PM (kgE5c)

427 398 Nood-a-licious..
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at February 27, 2025 12:53 PM (NJshq)

Posted by: m at February 27, 2025 01:07 PM (v0TzN)

428 Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found partially-mummified at the couple's $3.3 million mansion, with pills strewn in their bathroom. An arrest warrant obtained by DailyMail.com revealed Arakawa, 64, was found decomposed with bloating on her face and mummification in her hands and feet. Sheriffs said Hackman was found to have the same signs of decomposition as his wife. Mummification occurs when a person's skin and tissues are preserved after their death.

Posted by: SMOD at February 27, 2025 01:10 PM (RHGPo)

429 Hi Ace
Wht a bizarre story. ust read the bodies were mummified. How does a famous someone like this go undiscovered for long enough for the bodies to be mummified.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 27, 2025 12:08 PM (t/2Uw)

If there's wind and low humidity mummification can got pretty quickly.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 27, 2025 01:25 PM (n7h9X)

430 I didn't like QatD first time through, either. But I realized how much of a distilled Western it is later on. It's pure trope, not going for realism, just straight-up style over a very simple (if absurd) story.

And I grew to appreciate Stone's performance as well: Maybe she can't show emotion, but this particular movie calls for =not= showing emotion. She's woman in a man's world, and there's not much of an archetype for her to go on. Beverly Garland maybe, and maybe Garland did it better. IDK, it just didn't strike me as bad on later viewings.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at February 27, 2025 01:31 PM (asXVI)

431 The European cut of The Quick and the Dead is longer and has a love scene between Stone and Russell.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at February 27, 2025 01:33 PM (TdCYS)

432 Usaid really looks like a giant payoff racket for apparats loyal to the deep state.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 27, 2025 12:10 PM (5te95)

It is.

If you want to get really frustrated, listen to Joe Rogan's podcast with his CIA friend, Mike Baker.

Guy is clearly the mouthpiece for the CIA, and has been for the years he's been on JRE, but it's infuriating to listen to him pretend to be MAGA but also caution that we need to move slowly and also, everyone knew this was going on and it's a good thing.

Same evolution the media goes through "this isn't happening, you're nuts." "okay, it's happening but only a little." "it's old news. Everyone has known this was going on forever."
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 27, 2025 12:14 PM (uCjyK)

Shhh! Its better if they don't know that we use the phrasing like im true MAGA but we need to go slow to know what the deeps want you to know. Just like we know that Politico means "Deep State"

Might want to watch him explain away the freak porn discussions on the chatboards.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 27, 2025 01:33 PM (n7h9X)

433 I hope he was one of the good guys who defied Hollyweird. A good actor, for sure. Have never heard anything bad about him.

Odd that the front door was left open, eh?

The fact that he left movies 20yrs ago to spend his life in NM was a good move. I'd get out of there as well.

I once loved a guy in college, before the weird in Hollyweird was revealed. A film maker. No doubt would have been liberal if he had not died young of cancer four months after we met. My first love. Or lust at first sight. I was 20yrs old and he was 23yrs when lightening struck us both. I never had that sudden bolt again, we were dazed...more of a gradual buildup to love after friendship. Almost 50yrs later this guy's memory and incredible blue eyes are still with me.

A hellish year later I found my real love... and he is possibly more conservative than I am, a great man, husband, father, grandfather and man of God. For sure a better person than I am with my wicked ways.

Thank goodness Mel Gibson spoke out about what goes on there in spite of all the fury blown at him, he held fast to what he saw. I'd hate to hate him along with the rest. Now I won't watch a movie with those I hate, and the number grows.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 27, 2025 01:35 PM (6PCLE)

434 If it's hot and dry and in a house that might act like an oven it could happen in a couple of weeks, I would guess

i know santa fe is hot but is it super-hot in February?
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2025 12:10 PM (KRtlO)

If it's hot and dry and in a house that might act like an oven it could happen in a couple of weeks, I would guess

i know santa fe is hot but is it super-hot in February?
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2025 12:10 PM (KRtlO)

Supposedly there were 2 other dogs who weren't dead ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2025 12:10 PM (VE6XX)

In magician James Randis book on debunking psychics there was a psychic who brought an orange and a piece of chicken he had psychically 'healed' by placing on a shelf by a window. He took the debunking pretty well when they did a control. Randi and his team figured it was just dessicated.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 27, 2025 01:37 PM (n7h9X)

435 I hope he was one of the good guys who defied Hollyweird. A good actor, for sure. Have never heard anything bad about him.

Odd that the front door was left open, eh?

The fact that he left movies 20yrs ago to spend his life in NM was a good move. I'd get out of there as well.

--------------------------

if you figure it as the wife leaving his body then coming in through the door to end herself and the dog, leaving the door might just be inattention. I imagine they have enough front yard to not have to worry about casual passersby.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 27, 2025 01:40 PM (n7h9X)

436 Look at Keir Starmer's stupid fucking smile when he meets Trump:

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/
1895167776748139003

He's giddy to meet Trump.
---

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 27, 2025 01:02 PM (iQHOh)

Its pretty telling that Trump hasn't met him *yet*. If Farange was PM they would have met in November for sure.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 27, 2025 01:42 PM (n7h9X)

437 394 Dog dead in a closet.
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 27, 2025 12:41 PM (O38oM)

Dead dog in the middle of the road.
Posted by: m

Let's eat!
Posted by: Barky Obola
Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 12:52 PM (NiXiP)

I love you guys!!!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 27, 2025 01:47 PM (6PCLE)

438 if you figure it as the wife leaving his body then coming in through the door to end herself and the dog, leaving the door might just be inattention. I imagine they have enough front yard to not have to worry about casual passersby.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 27, 2025 01:40 PM (n7h9X)

Good point. At 95yrs old, and he looked very frail in the photo a year ago. Horrible ending, regardless.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 27, 2025 01:49 PM (6PCLE)

439 Just checked, obviously I'm not the only one who knows he had information that would send Hillary Clinton to jail.

Posted by: ChrisW at February 27, 2025 02:06 PM (FG8nr)

440 Best submarine battle on film?

Wrath of Khan.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 27, 2025 12:31 PM (/2Ls3)

Nope. "The Enemy Below"

Good solid movie with Robert Mitchem as an American DE skipper vs. a German pig-boat.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at February 27, 2025 04:43 PM (pJWtt)

441 Wasn't he the Captain in the first version of THE POSIDON ADVENTURE?

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 27, 2025 05:06 PM (wGqjj)

Processing 0.06, elapsed 0.0754 seconds.
15 queries taking 0.0187 seconds, 450 records returned.
Page size 221 kb.
Powered by Minx 0.8 beta.