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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I have a law degree (Stanford, 66') but have never practiced. Instead, from 1967 through 1977, I tried to contribute to the revolution in America. As unsuccessful as everyone else over that decade, in 1978 I went to work for the U.S. Forest (
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