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| Permalink View Article Stats In Memoriam: Ben Gazzara, by Richard Brody at The New Yorker Quicklink submitted by GLloyd Rowsey (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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Ben Gazzara died on Friday, at the age of eighty-one. He's one of the very greatest of film actors; he'll be remembered for just a handful of roles, out of the one hundred thirty-three listed in IMDb, but those are among the very summits of movie history. I'm thinking, in particular, of his three films with John Cassavetes: 'Husbands,' 'The Killing of a Chinese Bookie,' and 'Opening Night. In them (especially the first two) he plays varieties of himself, as Cassavetes saw him: the moderate man who loses his head and takes immoderate action. |
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