The Pursuit Of Leisure

100% correct, 50% of the time. A tongue in cheek look at culture both high and low.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Happy 78th Birthday to Gene Hackman, the only straight man in Hollywood.

At 3:36 PM, January 30, 2008, Anonymous said...: "I'm the commander of this fucking ship!? Gimee the god damn key!"
At 3:54 PM, January 30, 2008, Skeelo said...: My two favorite roles are Popeye Doyle in The French Connection and Little Bill in Unforgiven.

He was the sixth choice to play Doyle. Unbelievable. Who else would have been as good in that role.

He was also the first choice to play Hannibal Lecter which I can't see at all.
At 6:51 PM, January 30, 2008, Anonymous said...: Hard to argue with those roles, but I thought he was at his best in Hoosiers, Mississippi Burning and or course as Lex Luther in Superman.
At 8:59 AM, January 31, 2008, Skeelo said...: Hoosiers is one of the three best sports movies ever made so I would agree with you. There are way to omany great Gene roles to choose from.