In Dog Day Afternoon, Sidney Lumet, 1975. Not to be glib, but it's been a lousy day for great character actors who worked with Lumet (the previously discussed Jack Klugman,…
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With Jack Lemmon in The Days of Wine And Roses, Blake Edwards, 1962. Sober cinephiles the world over will tell you that Klugman's character Jim is pretty much the platonic…
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More than just the Mickey in Mickey and Sylvia (though that wasn't nothing); simply one of the great electric guitar stylists. A favorite of another departed favorite, Mr. Robert Quine.…
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An artist, gone far too soon. The Game, with Michael Douglas, directed by David Fincher, 1997. Birth, with unspecified actor, possibly Michael Desautels, directed by Jonathan Glazer, 2004. Margot At…
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I hope I'm forgiven for a bit of what may be perceived as inside baseball but I wanted to express my sadness at the news of the death of Lois…
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As Napoleon in War and Peace, King Vidor, 1956. The great Czech-born actor was 95. Among his many laudable attributes was his willingness, briefly, to work with Jesus Franco.
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