Gene Hackman

A shame, no matter how it happened.  The Gene dying/wife suicide thing was my first thought, but the dog didn't fit the story.  I guess we will find out in due time.

Get Shorty is a truly wonderful movie, and he is great in it.

Just watched this one tonight in honor of Gene:

Steve_Jones said:

It sounds like he fell, and died (or fell because he died), she found him, and took a bunch of pills. 1 dog found and ate some of her pills. Just a guess though

Word for word what I thought.  However the dog was supposedly in a crate or a closet or something

In reply to Mr_Asa :

Dog in closet, but no indication if closet door was open or closed. If open, it seems reasonable that the dog might have sought a smaller space for a sense of safety if it had consumed drugs that made it feel uncomfortable.

It gets weirder:  They are now saying she appears to have been dead for much longer than him, maybe weeks more.  So much she started to mummify!  She was much younger than him btw (60 I believe).  I am not sure I want to know what happened at this point!

Gene Hackman was one of those actors that you could almost guarantee a good movie out of.  I think he was always likeable in his roles in some way.  Did he ever play an unlikeable character?  Even in The Firm, you end up feeling a bit sorry for him.  

My mom let me go see the French connection by myself when I was like 16. Impressionable movie at that age. I have always liked Gene Hackman.

aircooled said:

Gene Hackman was one of those actors that you could almost guarantee a good movie out of.  I think he was always likeable in his roles in some way.  Did he ever play an unlikeable character?  Even in The Firm, you end up feeling a bit sorry for him.  

Oh, you absolutely hated Little Bill in Unforgiven.  Or, at least, you were supposed to...

wae said:

aircooled said:

Gene Hackman was one of those actors that you could almost guarantee a good movie out of.  I think he was always likeable in his roles in some way.  Did he ever play an unlikeable character?  Even in The Firm, you end up feeling a bit sorry for him.  

Oh, you absolutely hated Little Bill in Unforgiven.  Or, at least, you were supposed to...

Oh. I thought he was supposed to be a role model?

wae said: 

Oh, you absolutely hated Little Bill in Unforgiven.  Or, at least, you were supposed to...

Little Bill is a horrible person, but Hackman plays him with such charm, it's hard not to like him a little bit.

"I don't deserve this, to die like this. I was building a house!"

Based on forensics, Hackman believed to have died on the 17th, which matches the last activity on his pacemaker.

Blood tests don't indicate carbon monoxide. 

Mr_Asa said:

Based on forensics, Hackman believed to have died on the 17th, which matches the last activity on his pacemaker.

Shoulda paid extra for Energizers.

Hackman grew up in the city just down the road from my hometown. One day in the late-80s/early-90s he & his wife spent the afternoon browsing the shops. I was out of town, but a couple younger friends stalked them for a while before Gene eventually walked out & gave them autographs.