Karen Black
Karen Black
Loved her in “5 easy pieces.”
RIP Karen.
In her heyday, one of the sexiest redheads ever!
“Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean” - she was terrific in this movie.
RIP
No dummy either...admitted to Northwestern at age 15
She died of an odd cancer. Periampullary cancer.
Periampullary cancer is a cancer that forms near the ampulla of Vater, an enlargement of the ducts from the liver and pancreas where they join and enter the small intestine.
Karen Black was one of those actresses whose natural beauty, comic timing, sense of irony and professionalism was usually overlooked because she was distractingly, relentlessly beautiful. Karen handled complicated roles with ease and panache. Something about Karen reminds me of those esoteric, conceptual films by Andy Warhol, so popular in the 60’s, done best through Fellini’s films or the latter Swedish films of Ingmar Bergman; baroque, superficial and deeply moving all at once. Scarlet Johansson and Megan Fox remind me a little of her in today’s films.
capricorn 1 and airport.
