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'Five Easy Pieces' star Karen Black dead at 74
AP/NY post ^ | August 8, 2013

Posted on 08/08/2013 4:15:22 PM PDT by lowbridge

Karen Black, the prolific actress who appeared in more than 100 movies and was featured in such counterculture favorites as "Easy Rider," ''Five Easy Pieces" and "Nashville," has died.

Black's husband, Stephen Eckelberry, says the actress died Wednesday from complications from cancer. She was 74.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: hollywood; karenblack; obituary
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To: lowbridge

Didn’t she play the mistress that Daisy’s husband was screwing in the Redford/Farrow “Great Gatsby”? The one who was kille by in the traffic acciden and whose husband shot Gatsby?


21 posted on 08/08/2013 4:36:34 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: lowbridge

Had a major teen crush on her. RIP Karen.


22 posted on 08/08/2013 4:37:54 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: lowbridge

74? Good Lord, how old does that make me? Never mind.


23 posted on 08/08/2013 4:38:27 PM PDT by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: P.O.E.
One of the scariest movies I'd ever seen as a kid.

I remember it well. Trilogy of nightmares for me.

RIP.

24 posted on 08/08/2013 4:41:09 PM PDT by South40
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To: lowbridge

I was in college when that came out. Damn well done and damn scary. Chuckie was a wimp next to this.


25 posted on 08/08/2013 4:41:29 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: lowbridge
Karen Black in "Easy Rider"


26 posted on 08/08/2013 4:46:31 PM PDT by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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To: lowbridge

Saw her in many big-screen and TV movies in the early 1970s. RIP Karen.


27 posted on 08/08/2013 4:57:11 PM PDT by ScottinVA (If you don't care about Antonio Santiago, sure as hell don't whine about Trayvon Martin.)
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To: P.O.E.

What was the name of that movie?


28 posted on 08/08/2013 5:03:26 PM PDT by lilypad
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To: lowbridge
  
29 posted on 08/08/2013 5:05:36 PM PDT by montag813 (NO AMNESTY * ENFORCE THE LAW * http://StandWithArizona.com)
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To: PghBaldy
I remember that one, too. It was especially cheesy.
30 posted on 08/08/2013 5:09:39 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: lowbridge; a fool in paradise
he was cross eyed. (Childhood photo.)


31 posted on 08/08/2013 5:13:07 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: lowbridge

I have that movie on DVD. I was just thinking about her yesterday. Weird. RIP Karen.


32 posted on 08/08/2013 5:13:33 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: lowbridge

RIP


33 posted on 08/08/2013 5:15:46 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: lowbridge
Miami Vice:


34 posted on 08/08/2013 5:16:32 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: lowbridge
For you Country music fans legend Jack “Cowboy Jack” Clement also died today. He was the first to produce Jerry Lee Lewis at Sun Records.
35 posted on 08/08/2013 5:19:31 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek (")
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To: lowbridge

She always had that almost Raquel Welch look about her


36 posted on 08/08/2013 5:29:12 PM PDT by Cyman
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To: lowbridge

Ironically, her star sign was,.....you guessed it,...Cancer.


37 posted on 08/08/2013 5:32:08 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: PghBaldy

Oooh, that chauffeur driving the hearse......can still see those sunglasses. Bone chilling..


38 posted on 08/08/2013 5:37:04 PM PDT by EnquiringMind
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To: eyedigress

She may have flown a Jumbo Jet but back in the day I took her all the way to the top of Space Mountain


39 posted on 08/08/2013 5:47:45 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: montag813
I always thought she was as cute as a button.

RIP, Ms. Black.

40 posted on 08/08/2013 5:48:42 PM PDT by boop ("You don't look so bad, here's another")
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