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

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

[FLNittany]

Say what you want, but he handed us one of the most beautiful women ever to grace any screen imo.

[Roadrunner383]

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

Yep, and Larry McMurtry was another one who was smitten by Shepherd when he met her on the set of ‘Last Picture Show’. The character Lorena Wood in ‘Lonesome Dove’ was supposedly written with the idea that Shepherd might play her if the book made it to film.

[Rummyfan]

More, he has performed that most difficult of all cinematic feats: he has made ennui fascinating.

Now that is an accomplishment.

[Rummyfan]

“Sometime in the mid-’70s, when we were getting terrible press, Cary Grant called me. He says, ‘Peter, will you for Christ’s sake stop telling people you’re happy? And stop telling them you’re in love.’ I said, ‘Why, Cary?’ ‘Because they’re not happy and they’re not in love.’ He was right.”

LOL!

[Rummyfan]

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

In something straight out of Hitchcock, he married the younger sister and though they subsequently divorced they apparently remained friends.

[fieldmarshaldj]

One of the last of the directing giants that was known by name. Almost none exist today. RIP.

[Rummyfan]

The character Lorena Wood in ‘Lonesome Dove’ was supposedly written with the idea that Shepherd might play her if the book made it to film.

Maybe. Lonesome Dove was originally a screenplay McMurtry wrote on spec and he envisioned John Wayne / James Stewart / Henry Fonda in the Woodrow Call / Gus McRae / Jake Spoon roles. Later he fleshed it out into the full-blown novel.

Personally I think Robert Duval as Gus McRae is one of the greatest performances of all-time. Period.

[Borges]

Well quite a few exist...Spielberg, Tarantino, Oliver Stone, Scorsese...

[Rummyfan]

A beauty for sure but a real looney-tunes too.

[Wuli]

1. Movie directors seldom made/make it to the top of my movie memory dump. As a result, when Bogdanovich’s name comes up I am always mentally confusing him with the infamous Roman Polanski.

2. I like/liked The Last Picture show, in spite of it painting a perpetually dark image of very small town America. I thought many of the dramatic performances were very good, and in spite of the eye candy I did not think the nudity made a big difference one way or another. It could have been left out, but I think the heart of the drama in the story would have still been evident (without the nudity) and was done well by the principles. I think what such a movie misses by default is even in the fictitious town there were many good people who were left totally out of the story - the story was not about most of them. The same fictitious town could have been written up with all the unsavory characters/events in the Last Picture Show given only glancing portrayals - it would have been a totally different story. In the end I think the acting stands on its own, regardless of what the story line and director offer the actor.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Nonsense. Dorothy’s husband was a narcissistic sleazeball with delusions of grandeur who thought he owned her and used her as a meal ticket to garner fame and fortune for himself. Even if she had never landed up in “Playboy” or Hollywood, she’d have ended up leaving him and he’d have still killed her (and himself).

[mass55th]

All I remember about him was that he and Cybil Shepard had a thing at one time.

[dfwgator]

All I remember about him was that he and Cybil Shepard had a thing at one time.

He had good taste, I'll give him that.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I should’ve said there’s few NEW ones known today. Almost all the ones you cited (except Tarantino) were known by the ‘70s and ‘80s. You’d be hard pressed to name many new (post-2010) directors today that are known just by their names that are remotely equal to their past peers.

[Cecily]

Peter was friendly with Hitchcock and discussed movies with him. Maybe Peter had more in common with Hitch than we knew (directors and mavens of all things cinematic, obsessions with their leading ladies, professional partnerships with wives who collaborated on their films).

[karnage]

Cybill Shepherd = stunningly beautiful.

[Boogieman]

Spielberg, Stone, and Scorcese are all from the “New Hollywood” generation of the 70s though.

Tarantino is more recent sure, and I’d say definitely Christopher Nolan deserves mention as a modern auteur. The Coen Brothers and Aronofsky are good too.

[FLNittany]

"Personally I think Robert Duval as Gus McRae is one of the greatest performances of all-time. Period. "

All the great performances he has given us - I still remember him best as Ned Pepper in True Grit. Not overdone, not underdone. Just perfect.

[FLNittany]

"Cybill Shepherd = stunningly beautiful."

Words can't describe how beautiful she was. Pictures can't even describe how beautiful she was. She was a blonde Audrey Hepburn.

[dennisw]

He played a shrink on the Sopranos..... Images>> https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/bogdanovich.jpeg Video>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyvKkhuJaJQ

He did good in the Sopranos.