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Alan Arkin, Oscar-winning ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ actor, dies at 89
CBS 7 ^ | 06-30-2023 | Associated Press

Posted on 06/30/2023 8:42:03 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alan Arkin, the wry character actor who demonstrated his versatility in everything from farcical comedy to chilling drama as he received four Academy Award nominations and won an Oscar in 2007 for “Little Miss Sunshine,” has died. He was 89.

His sons Adam, Matthew and Anthony confirmed their father’s death through the actor’s publicist on Friday. “Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature, both as an artist and a man,” they said in a statement.

A member of Chicago’s famed Second City comedy troupe, Arkin was an immediate success in movies with the Cold War spoof “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming” and peaked late in life with his win as best supporting actor for the surprise 2006 hit “Little Miss Sunshine.” More than 40 years separated his first Oscar nomination, for “The Russians are Coming,” from his nomination for playing a conniving Hollywood producer in the Oscar-winning “Argo.”

In recent years he starred opposite Michael Douglas in the Netflix comedy series “The Kominsky Method,” a role that earned him two Emmy nominations.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: alanarkin; alanarkinobit; arkin; arkinobit; hollywood
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To: Sirius Lee

Oh, yes, The In-Laws, how could I forget that one.


41 posted on 06/30/2023 9:33:04 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rey
That (The In-Laws with Peter Falk) was a fun movie.
42 posted on 06/30/2023 9:34:41 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

Freebie and the Bean is a really good comedy.

And a great car chase sequence.


43 posted on 06/30/2023 9:35:19 AM PDT by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

“The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!


44 posted on 06/30/2023 9:35:50 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

He was fantastic in The Kominsky Method.


45 posted on 06/30/2023 9:35:58 AM PDT by rexthecat
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To: Sirius Lee

Also Freebie and The Bean, with James Caan.


46 posted on 06/30/2023 9:36:46 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

R.I.P.


47 posted on 06/30/2023 9:43:32 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: x

Didn’t John Phillip Law play in it?


48 posted on 06/30/2023 9:46:44 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects )
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment; All


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49 posted on 06/30/2023 9:48:06 AM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Among others. Great cast: Jonathan Winters, Carl Reiner, Brian Keith, Paul Ford, Theo Bikel, Eva Marie Saint.


50 posted on 06/30/2023 9:52:13 AM PDT by x
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To: AbolishCSEU

He played a scary psycho in that movie.

Richard Crena at least was halfway human.


51 posted on 06/30/2023 9:58:08 AM PDT by RedMonqey ("A republic, if you can keep it" Benjam Franklin.)
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

Terrible news. RIP Alan Arkin.


52 posted on 06/30/2023 10:06:59 AM PDT by jocon307 (Democrats delenda est.)
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

He was also on several M*A*S*H episodes. RIP.


53 posted on 06/30/2023 10:07:43 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

Memory Eternal!!!!


54 posted on 06/30/2023 10:10:55 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

“He a big honcho”


55 posted on 06/30/2023 10:11:48 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

RIP!


56 posted on 06/30/2023 10:13:09 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment
Arkin had one of the dryest and funniest sense of humor of any actor of the era.

Agreed. Like the "swordfish scene" in Get Smart.

Max: "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

Chief: "I don't know. Were you thinking 'Holy s**t, holy s**t, a swordfish almost went through my head? If so, yes."

57 posted on 06/30/2023 10:15:13 AM PDT by vrwc1
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

Here’s a link to the Variety obit (I always like to read those.):

https://variety.com/2023/film/obituaries-people-news/alan-arkin-dead-little-miss-sunshine-argo-1235658718/

It contains this wonderful quote from a review of “The In-Laws”, which is a hilarious movie: The New York Times’ Janet Maslin wrote: “I was laughing so hard at ‘The In-Laws,’ a wonderful new comedy of errors… that after a while I was crying. Then I was wiping my eyes. Then I forgot to take any more notes.”


58 posted on 06/30/2023 10:21:27 AM PDT by jocon307 (Democrats delenda est.)
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To: Clemenza

Maybe I’ll read that, what is it called? I read Mel Brooks’s “All About Me” and loved it.


59 posted on 06/30/2023 10:22:20 AM PDT by jocon307 (Democrats delenda est.)
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To: RedMonqey

Absolutely perfect suspense movie.


60 posted on 06/30/2023 10:29:12 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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