...story follows several survivors as they attempt to escape a capsized cruise ship. Among the mismatched adventurers are Gene Hackman, Red Buttons and, in an utterly selfless performance, Shelley Winters. LOVE AFFAIR (1939): This is a story told...
...Francis Ford Coppola made his way onto the AFI list several times, but this claustrophobic thriller is his best work. Gene Hackman stars as a surveillance expert who might have overheard a murder plot. HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940): Although a few of...
...great. Greta Garbo did it, and so did Jane's Addiction. Both Cheers and M*A*S*H prematurely pulled the plug. Gene Hackman and Sean Connery seem to have done it, and last week, Jamie Lee Curtis announced that she was done. What a bunch...
...string of maudlin flops, he still knows how to deliver a complex, subtle performance. He doesn't chew the scenery as Gene Hackman did in portraying the self-professed criminal mastermind, but he's smolderingly smarmy in a way that's just as...
...There's Queen Latifah (Pizza Hut), Sean Connery (Level 3 Communications), Christian Slater (Panasonic), Gene Hackman (Oppenheimer Funds) - oh, and then there's Julia Roberts. That's right, Julia Roberts, in a recent campaign...
...and the Dead (1995): It's impossible to imagine a film today that features Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio and Gene Hackman, but stars Sharon Stone. In 1995, however, Ms. Stone was the hot property and her gentleman suitors were happy...
...and the Dead (1995): It's impossible to imagine a film today that features Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio and Gene Hackman, but stars Sharon Stone. In 1995, however, Ms. Stone was the hot property and her gentleman suitors were happy...
...collaborating with a filmmaker. "At the end of the day, it's his film," he said. "He's the director. It's not Gene Hackman's film, or Ben Affleck's or Tom Cruise's film. It's the director's film. It's his job to pull all of...
...of the Indianapolis Colts. Although the game is in Indiana, Spartans coach Joanne P. McCallie didn't make like Gene Hackman's character in "Hoosiers" and measure the rims to prove to her players that 10 feet is 10 feet no matter the court...
...Nomination snubs of the year: In a year of such strong performances, omissions were inevitable. For instance, Gene Hackman's irascible turn in The Royal Tenenbaums could easily have edged out Ethan Hawke's solid but unspectacular work...
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