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#51

I could watch Uncommon Valor and BAT*21 on a loop.

#52

The Conversation, French Connection, Night Moves, Bonny & Clyde, Royal Ts, Unforgiven, Crimson Tide, The Firm, Mississippi Burning, Runaway Jury, Hoosiers. That is desert island shit. 

#54
25 minutes ago, RPM said:

I could watch Uncommon Valor and BAT*21 on a loop.

dammit, beat me to it!

#57

i am going with he died peacefully of natural causes (old age) and then the wife, killed the dog and herself.

i google mapped Old Sunset Trail, Sante Fe (Hackman's residence). There are some massive homes on that street.

Edited by yoladu

#58

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RIP, Gene. 

I think he's been in rough shape for a while. I saw him out in Santa Fe 5-6 years ago and he was declining then. 

 

EDIT: Jesus, I just read the article. Horrible. 

 

Edited by Hank Kingsley

#62

I just remembered he popped up on one of those food travelogues as a customer when they were visiting some restaurant in Santa Fe.  That was a bit of a surprise.

#63

"A Bridge Too Far." Caine and Hackman in the same movie. This is my thesis man! This is my closing argument! I CAN STOP WATCHING TV!

#64
Just now, jimmyjazz said:

I just remembered he popped up on one of those food travelogues as a customer when they were visiting some restaurant in Santa Fe.  That was a bit of a surprise.

If you spent any time in Santa Fe, there was a good chance you'd bump into him. I did twice.

#65

Another one that hasn't been mentioned yet (I only did a quick scan through the thread) is Get Shorty.  Watched it this past weekend, and he was terrific in that as well.  He was nails in pretty much everything he did.  

That's some weird news re: his death.  However it went down, I hope he didn't suffer. 

 

Edited by Carl Spackler

#68
1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

I just remembered he popped up on one of those food travelogues as a customer when they were visiting some restaurant in Santa Fe.  That was a bit of a surprise.

Cameo on Triple D, believe it was a place up in the Northeast. 
 

I stand corrected it was a diner in Santa Fe. 

Edited by Underdog

#70

Now I'm reading CO poisoning. That sounds likely as the bodies were not injured and only 1 of 3 dogs was dead. If they poisoned themselves it doesn't make sense they would only kill 1 dog. And heaters are still going full blast this time of year in SF.

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#71

Lots of bluesky posts in a row, so....read them all:

 

Spoiler
Oh, man, not Gene Hackman. 2025 can just fuck right off. Okay. Let me tell you a little bit about Gene Hackman...

 

When I first moved to LA, I had met a grand total of about five famous people. I was a manager at a General Cinemas in Sherman Oaks where we had a TON of famous people come in, both for special screenings and just as regular customers. I had to get used to it very quickly for that job.

 

 

Some of them were nice. Some of them were dicks. Some of them treated me like I was invisible. It was a real crash course in the way famous people interact with non-famous people.

 

After I'd been there a few months, I was opening one Friday morning by myself, and I was in the box-office, getting things ready. I looked up and Gene Hackman was standing at the window. Smiling. Waiting. This was just after he'd had a very widely reported heart attack.

 

I walked around to the doors and opened them and invited him to come inside while I set up. He was the first person there, and he came in. I called him Mr. Hackman, but I didn't acknowledge him as anything other than a customer beyond that. Just trying to play it cool while screaming on the inside.

 

 

He spent about twenty minutes in the lobby before anyone else showed up. I told him I wasn't going to charge him, and we just chatted. He could not have been more normal or more approachable. We talked about how he was spending his "forced vacation time."

 

 

He told me that he was building an airplane with his son. Not a model. An actual working airplane. It was something they always wanted to do, and he found it relaxing. He started showing up every Friday for that first show. Always by himself. Always before anyone else.

 

 

He did that for about two or three months. And in that time, I saw dozens, if not hundreds, of people stop him to talk to him. Every time, they were excited. And every time, he was an absolute champ about it. He talked to everyone. And really talked to them. He made them all feel seen.

 

 

One time, he was leaving a movie, and a woman walked up to him. "You won't remember me," she said, "but my husband..." "... worked in the camera department on LUCKY LADY. I remember you. How's Dan doing?" She was flummoxed. It was like he'd seen her yesterday. He did that to several people I saw.

 

 

When he started working again, he stopped coming in. I think he lived within walking distance, but he was on the road again and I don't think I saw him again the entire time I worked there. But if I'd ever seen him again, I am confident he would have remembered my name. That's how he was.

 

 

 

 

 

#72
12 minutes ago, Hard Times said:

Now I'm reading CO poisoning. That sounds likely as the bodies were not injured and only 1 of 3 dogs was dead. If they poisoned themselves it doesn't make sense they would only kill 1 dog. And heaters are still going full blast this time of year in SF.

NBC said no sign of a gas leak and now being ruled as "suspicious" 

#73

Shit sucks. Hackman was old, I get it. His wife wasn't THAT old. The dog is just too much.

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#74

Hackman dying at 95 is sad but understandable.

His wife, dying in her 60s, is something else. Something happened there. It wasn't natural causes whatever it was. 

#75
1 minute ago, Valmy77 said:

Hackman dying at 95 is sad but understandable.

His wife, dying in her 60s, is something else. Something happened there. It wasn't natural causes whatever it was. 

It's all three of em together - Hackman, wife, and dog, that makes you want to rule out natural causes.

CO poisoning is the next most obvious cause.

#76
35 minutes ago, Hard Times said:

Now I'm reading CO poisoning. That sounds likely as the bodies were not injured and only 1 of 3 dogs was dead. If they poisoned themselves it doesn't make sense they would only kill 1 dog. And heaters are still going full blast this time of year in SF.

Maybe that dog was an asshole?

28 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Lots of bluesky posts in a row, so....read them all:

 

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Oh, man, not Gene Hackman. 2025 can just fuck right off. Okay. Let me tell you a little bit about Gene Hackman...

 

When I first moved to LA, I had met a grand total of about five famous people. I was a manager at a General Cinemas in Sherman Oaks where we had a TON of famous people come in, both for special screenings and just as regular customers. I had to get used to it very quickly for that job.

 

 

Some of them were nice. Some of them were dicks. Some of them treated me like I was invisible. It was a real crash course in the way famous people interact with non-famous people.

 

After I'd been there a few months, I was opening one Friday morning by myself, and I was in the box-office, getting things ready. I looked up and Gene Hackman was standing at the window. Smiling. Waiting. This was just after he'd had a very widely reported heart attack.

 

I walked around to the doors and opened them and invited him to come inside while I set up. He was the first person there, and he came in. I called him Mr. Hackman, but I didn't acknowledge him as anything other than a customer beyond that. Just trying to play it cool while screaming on the inside.

 

 

He spent about twenty minutes in the lobby before anyone else showed up. I told him I wasn't going to charge him, and we just chatted. He could not have been more normal or more approachable. We talked about how he was spending his "forced vacation time."

 

 

He told me that he was building an airplane with his son. Not a model. An actual working airplane. It was something they always wanted to do, and he found it relaxing. He started showing up every Friday for that first show. Always by himself. Always before anyone else.

 

 

He did that for about two or three months. And in that time, I saw dozens, if not hundreds, of people stop him to talk to him. Every time, they were excited. And every time, he was an absolute champ about it. He talked to everyone. And really talked to them. He made them all feel seen.

 

 

One time, he was leaving a movie, and a woman walked up to him. "You won't remember me," she said, "but my husband..." "... worked in the camera department on LUCKY LADY. I remember you. How's Dan doing?" She was flummoxed. It was like he'd seen her yesterday. He did that to several people I saw.

 

 

When he started working again, he stopped coming in. I think he lived within walking distance, but he was on the road again and I don't think I saw him again the entire time I worked there. But if I'd ever seen him again, I am confident he would have remembered my name. That's how he was.

 

 

 

 

 

McWeeny is an unfortunate last name.

#77
23 minutes ago, Js1 said:

NBC said no sign of a gas leak and now being ruled as "suspicious" 

Lot's of speculation. Autopsy report can't get here fast enough.

#79

One of his best scenes of all time:

 

Reportedly, Hackman's "You heard me, Coltraine" line was ad-libbed and surprised Danny Glover, whose genuine reaction was captured in this take.

Edited by South Austin

#81
3 minutes ago, Red Five said:


And the dog?

 

that's a murder

everyone wants their pet in the afterlife 

#85
43 minutes ago, randomhorn said:

The dog killed them all with one of those gnarly dog farts

We are gonna need a Pawxicology test on the remaining dogs ASAP to rule them out as suspects. 

#86
24 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

There wasn’t much he was in that wasn’t good. I can think of none.

Superman IV was one of the worst movies ever made. 

#88

Last article I saw said he was found collapsed in a mudroom near his cane and she was found in the bathroom collapsed with a bottle of pills splattered and a space heater nearby. The dead dog was in a closet in the bathroom (didn't say if it was locked in there or just died there) and the other two dogs were in the house with access to outside. It also said that she was found bloated with mumification but no description of Hackman's condition. Gas company confirmed no leak and no indication of CO. Still no suspicion of foul play. This one is super weird to me and I can't help but be curious. 

It seems to me that a possibility would be that maybe they were fighting and she either pushed him or he collapsed and died and she swallowed a bottle of pills out of guilt and collapsed at some point from the drugs, the dead dog might have swallowed some of the pills that spilled, or maybe was locked in the bathroom with her and starved to death if she had really been dead that long. Or maybe the opposite? They were fighting, she decided to swallow some pills, and he collapsed in grief or guilt afterward in part because of his age and infirmities. I'm struggling with them outruling any possible foul play including the possibility of a domestic dispute? So fucking weird. 

#90
24 minutes ago, MrBig said:

We are gonna need a Pawxicology test on the remaining dogs ASAP to rule them out as suspects. 

The sheruff has already cleared them as suspects. 

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#91
1 hour ago, South Austin said:

One of his best scenes of all time:

 

Reportedly, Hackman's "You heard me, Coltraine" line was ad-libbed and surprised Danny Glover, whose genuine reaction was captured in this take.

not sure what glover was aware of, but ed norton mentioned this scene on his smartless episode. he's pals with wes anderson who told him the story of working with hackman on trt.

apparently, hackman came over to wes pretty early on and said, "i think it should be satchmo, i worry that nobody will know who coltrane is." to that, wes responded, "well i used coltrane for a reason, it's how i want the scene to sound". (wes, like the coen bros, mamet, others that write and direct their own stuff, have every single syllable the way they want it in the script, and there's virtually zero improv/ad-libbing - it's a current topic on the lebowski thread).

anyhow, at that point, hackman leaned in to wes and said, "fuck it, it's just our audience, right?"

guy took no shit.

also coltrane is objectively funnier.

#92
2 hours ago, Hard Times said:

Now I'm reading CO poisoning.

 

11 minutes ago, 'stache said:

Last article I saw said he was found collapsed in a mudroom near his cane and she was found in the bathroom collapsed with a bottle of pills splattered and a space heater nearby.  

will you fucking cockjockeys post your goddamn sources goddamn. 

#93
5 hours ago, 'stache said:

Forgot he was in The Birdcage. Still one of my all time favorite movies.

The birdcage is fucking hilarious. And he had as much to do with it as Robin and Nathan. 

#95
34 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

The birdcage is fucking hilarious. And he had as much to do with it as Robin and Nathan. 

nobody is debating that gene hackman isn’t great but your statement is wrong regarding that movie. 

#96

He died in bed?

Whose bed?

A prostitute? 

 

 

God this news sucks.  RIP to one of the best.

Edited by McCroskey

#97
1 hour ago, Red Five said:

Superman IV was one of the worst movies ever made. 

And yet it gave us the tremendous storyline in Office Space and therefore it is forgiven.

Edit-- Aw crap that S3.  I don't think I even knew there was a S4....

Edited by utee94

#99
6 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

Best part about that movie is Hank Azaria, then Lane. But Robin and Hackman were GREAT, and Hackman’s character juxtaposed against all the other wildass shit put it over the top. 

Exactly my thoughts on hackman’s character. 

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