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| Nov 11, 2006 @ 9:36 AM |
Rest in Peace, Curly
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razzired
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http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20061111/D8LAROM80.html
Oscar-Winning Actor Jack Palance Dies
Nov 11, 7:04 AM (ET)
(AP)
Jack Palance, the craggy-faced menace in "Shane,""Sudden Fear" and other films who turned successfully to comedy in his 70s with his Oscar-winning self-parody in "City Slickers," has died.
Palance died Friday of natural causes at his home in Montecito, Calif., surrounded by family, said spokesman Dick Guttman. He was 87.
When Palance accepted his Oscar for best supporting actor he delighted viewers of the 1992 Academy Awards by dropping to the stage and performing one-armed push-ups to demonstrate his physical prowess.
"That's nothing, really," he said slyly. "As far as two-handed push-ups, you can do that all night, and it doesn't make a difference whether she's there or not."
That year's Oscar host, Billy Crystal, turned the moment into a running joke, making increasingly outlandish remarks about Palance's accomplishments throughout the show.
"I am deeply shocked and saddened by the loss of my dear friend Jack Palance, a true movie icon," Crystal said in a statement Friday. "Winning the Oscar for that movie and the one-arm push-ups he did on the show will link us together forever, and for that I am grateful."
The push-ups not only created a magic Oscar moment, but also epitomized the actor's 40 years in films. Always the iconoclast, Palance had scorned most of his movie roles.
"Most of the stuff I do is garbage," he once told a reporter, adding that most of the directors he worked with were incompetent, too.
"Most of them shouldn't even be directing traffic," he said.
(excerpt, full article at the link above)
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| Nov 11, 2006 @ 9:47 AM |
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Always_Striving
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I really laughed in the movie "City Slickers II", he was very funny.
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| Nov 11, 2006 @ 11:07 AM |
Rest in Peace, Curly
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irish20835
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Sad news indeed ...Shane is one of my all time favroite movies
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| Nov 11, 2006 @ 11:45 AM |
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MotownManiax
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For those who may only know him for his "City Slicker" performances, please check out his other great roles. One of his best came early in his career, a movie called "Attack!"....a great, gritty, searing Palance performance. I have it on DVD and love it.
One of the reviews from Amazon .....
Long on several "lost film" lists, "Attack" is at last available on video. There are several reasons to see this film. It is a forerunner of so many grim, realistic movies that treat the subject with intelligence ("Men In War", "Pork Chop Hill", "Platoon", "The Thin Red Line"). It is brilliantly directed (many scenes are almost unbearable in their naked dramatic truth). And it contains several performances that demand attention.
The conviction of Eddie Albert's playing of the cowardly Lieutenant may come as a surprise to those unaware of his talents. Lee Marvin also delivers a solid characterization, as do most of the other supporting players. But the main feature of this film is the astonishing portrayal of Lt. Costa by Jack Palance. The kind of immersion in a role that Palance exhibits here is rare. It is the kind of performance that seems more like "being" than acting. A number of close-ups of Palance's face deliver a frisson of emotional intensity and truth that are rare and wonderful in the cinema of any period. In fact, Palance helps to demonstrate, in this picture, why "war films" should exist as a genre. The condition of war, of combat in particular, serves to foreground, polarize and intensify emotions and moral convictions. It can call into question the very nature of humanity. Just what is the price of a human life? What do we as humans mean to one another? When do concepts like 'bravery' and 'cowardice' cease to have meaning?
"Attack" is a small film, great in its impact.
Vaya Con Dios, Jack. 
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| Nov 16, 2006 @ 10:42 AM |
Rest in Peace, Curly
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midnightthunder
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He was a mans man...
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| Nov 16, 2006 @ 11:56 AM |
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lj450
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Hey Mo......if you can find one of him as the villian in "Shane", post it for me. Thats one of my all time favorite movies, and the shootout at the end of that movie is prolly more realistic looking than any Ive ever seen.
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