[CondoleezzaProtege]

See link for the poignant video clip...

[CondoleezzaProtege]

https://youtu.be/KBmquYWMWEY?feature=shared

[Big Red Badger]

“Cigars!”

[catnipman]

“A clip of the interview focuses on the lasting pain Hackman suffered when his father abandoned the family.”

WTF dude, you got to 95 and were STILL hung up on family stuff that happened 80 years ago? ... it’s not like you were starved or beaten ... sounds to me like you never grew up ... REAL ADULTS get move past mommy and daddy and get over this stuff, move on in life, and live it the best they can without a lot of whinging and whining about what mommy and daddy may or may not have done ...

[Organic Panic]

I read that in “Little Bill’s” voice.

[FreeReign]

Resurfaced Gene Hackman interview shows the pain of fatherlessness

[rellic]

One thing about articles like this,
Is MOM is never the problem!
BS!
She gets the house, moves her boyfriend in, and dad
pays all the bills!
That is how it really works.
Effing Courts!
Mom had had 4 marriages I got drug through three of them.
I managed to escape from my mother and get to a stable home.
Finally as an adult tell her to EFF off!
Don’t assume the guy is always at fault.
Our court systems destroy Fathers.
Fathers have just as much claims to their kids
as mothers do.
Just so you don’t think I’m bitter, been married to the same woman for 47 years, have a kid, and lots of family.

[JonPreston]

Hackman replied, “I was about 13 I guess. I was down the street playing with some guys, and he drove by and kind of waved and that was it.” Hackman appeared to get choked up before joking

I've read Hackman insisted on these two waving scenes in the French Connection because they reminded him of his fathers leaving

[Karliner]

Wellll, I had a mom died of cancer age ten, four younger siblings, step dad. Yeah it was very hard but there was resilience of youth.

I did hunt down my real dad when I was twenty-eight. Not a bad guy. Both were too young.

Not having a mom or a real dad made me very independent.

[GOPJ]

“[C]hildren from fatherless homes are more likely to be poor, become involved in drug and alcohol abuse, drop out of school, and suffer from health and emotional problems.”

Fathers give conditional love which means you can earn his love and lose his love. When the father leaves when kids are young it feels like a permanent fail. Very cruel.