Peter Bogdanovich, Oscar-Nominated Director and Champion of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Dies at 82

The Hollywood Reporter ^ | 1/6/2022 | Gregg Kilday

[Gay State Conservative]

This pig played a huge role in the death of Dorothy Stratten...a young girl who had fallen under the spell of psychopaths like Hugh Heffner and his showbiz co-conspirators.

[DarrellZero]

The Last Picture Show is a great film. Ben Johnson’s haunting performance amazes me every time I watch it.

[bray]

Last Picture Show was a piece of garbage.

[JewishRighter]

I agree with you in the cultural sense: it was designed to impress on a generation a nihilistic, dark vision of small town America. Technically, the film was beautiful and haunting.

[ecomcon]

A-list contributor to the scumming-down of society.

[Red Badger]

Thanks for the memories, Pete. Rest in Peace...............

[dfwgator]

Played Dr. Melfi’s psychologist on The Sopranos.

[discostu]

Oh wow. I was never that impressed by him as a director. But he sure was a big part of Hollywood history, really bridging between the Golden Era and New Hollywood.

[x]

He had an interesting life, I guess. Wouldn’t want to be him, though.

[Borges]

Then which film director of his generation didn’t do that?

[Az Joe]

His squeeze at one time was Playboy model Dorothy Stratton, who was murdered by her estranged husband who also killed himself at the time, when he learned of the affair, etc.

[Gay State Conservative]

Triumph Of The Will was a great film too. But I won’t go near it.

[Kriggerel]

Oh, don’t forget that he later married Dorothy’s younger sister Lori.

[ClearCase_guy]

It seems pretty safe to assume that he was a “Me Too” exemplar. His affair with Cybil Shephard, and then Dorothy Stratton. Seems like he really liked the perks of working with starlets.

[Borges]

The novel was written by Texas legend Larry McMurtry, who wrote “Lonesome Dove”.

[x]

Speaking of Cybill Shepherd, that was one weird, sad story about Alicia Witt’s parents.

[Gay State Conservative]

That's right...I forgot.I'll wager that the Stratten family is looking forward to dancing on his grave.

[x]

Maybe, but not every relationship in Hollywood is a Harvey Weinstein thing.

[Rummyfan]

Love The Last Picture Show and particularly Ben Johnson's part in it. Of course I love just about anything written by Larry McMurtry.

What's Up Doc? is very good too, just about the only good thing Streisand ever did. But after that he seems to have lost his way.

My daughter gave me a movie book for Christmas, dealing with films set in New York over the last forty - fifty years. These new writer - directors, they work for years and years to produce art-house flicks that very people have even heard of and even fewer have seen. I wonder what Ford and Hawks would think of them? I mean those guys cranked out films per year, many of them masterpieces.

Regardless, RIP Peter Bogdanovich.