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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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To: NFHale; fieldmarshaldj; Perdogg; GOPsterinMA; Clintonfatigued; BillyBoy

I remember seeing a similar kind of movie called “Nightmares” where in one of the stories a young Emillo Estevez is trapped in a video game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmares_(1983_film)


61 posted on 08/09/2013 6:34:19 AM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: lowbridge

The pride of Weehawken High School.


62 posted on 08/09/2013 6:56:02 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Audentis Fortuna Iuvat)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

I was in college when that came out. Damn well done and damn scary.

...I was 26 when this came out, and while I enjoyed it, it didn’t scare me at all...now, if we go back another 14 years to 1961, and Thriller’s ‘The Hungry Glass’, now we’re talking about one scared kid...


63 posted on 08/09/2013 7:17:45 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: NFHale
It starts at time 45:50 in the Trilogy of Terror youtube. The other two stories are ok. This was the era of a lot of quality made-for-tv-movies.
64 posted on 08/09/2013 7:28:12 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: P.O.E.; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; Perdogg; GOPsterinMA; Clintonfatigued; BillyBoy

Rod Serling’s “Night Gallery” time frame too, correct?

I loved that show. “The Devil Is Not Mocked” is one of my favorites.


65 posted on 08/09/2013 7:29:39 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale

McCloud, Columbo, Night Stalker, Spielberg’s “Duel”, the list goes on.....


66 posted on 08/09/2013 7:33:55 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: IrishBrigade

I was thinking I should go back and watch it now. See if it has a similar impact.

Often these movies don’t match the expectations of our memories.


67 posted on 08/09/2013 7:38:50 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: Impy; NFHale; fieldmarshaldj; Perdogg; GSP.FAN; Clintonfatigued; BillyBoy; campaignPete R-CT

Karen Black,
Herve Villachaise,
Emilio Estevez’s career,
The Love Boat,
Lauren Tewes,
Matt Damon’s recent box office success
The New York Yankees
The Dorothy Hamill haircut

All gone.

“I’m not going to stand here and listen to this baloney.”

“He won’t you know. He doesn’t stand for baloney.”


68 posted on 08/09/2013 7:49:57 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Time to musk up.)
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69 posted on 08/09/2013 8:01:34 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: P.O.E.

Remember them all very well.

Always like “Columbo”. Peter Falk was a good actor. Like him in the movie “Anzio”. The scene where the German sniper nails him just as he stands up to try to go to flank him was horrifying when I was kid. Robert Mitchum was in it as well. The look on his face was terrible in that scene.


70 posted on 08/09/2013 8:09:08 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Exactly!

They’re remaking it you know. Ugh...


71 posted on 08/09/2013 8:09:16 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Time to musk up.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

“Dorothy Hamill Haircut”

That was a huge style for a while back then. America’s darling Olympic kid....


72 posted on 08/09/2013 8:09:59 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

Oh, brother... Are they gonna get Robert Downey, Jr. to do a cameo ?


73 posted on 08/09/2013 8:22:32 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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That would be cool!

Imagine, RD, Jr. was second billing to Rusty Griswold in 2 movies: Weird Science and Johnny B. Good (with a young Uma Thurman).

Wow...


74 posted on 08/09/2013 8:55:05 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Time to musk up.)
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To: NFHale

Oh sure!


75 posted on 08/09/2013 8:55:13 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Time to musk up.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

It’s amazing Anthony Michael Hall’s career largely crashed after he got to be all full grown (he was great in his teen roles, though). His sidekick in Weird Science, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, left acting and became a teacher.


76 posted on 08/09/2013 9:02:18 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: NFHale

I had never seen that show before but a local channel recently began showing it.

I’ve probably seen every single Twilight Zone episode.


77 posted on 08/09/2013 9:03:27 AM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Agreed.

I saw that; he’s a teacher.

Chet (Bill Paxton) did ok too.


78 posted on 08/09/2013 9:06:11 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Time to musk up.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

Paxton I’d rank second to Downey in success for the cast. He was, after all, in “Titanic.”


79 posted on 08/09/2013 9:07:42 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Good call.


80 posted on 08/09/2013 12:22:13 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Time to musk up.)
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