Friday, January 13, 2012

Gene hackman

  • UPDATE (6:30): TMZ reports that Hackman has been released from the hospital and is doing fine. PREVIOUSLY: Gene Hackman was hit by a car while bicycling in Florida on Friday, before being airlifted to a local hospital.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Oscar-winner Gene Hackman, 81, was airlifted to Miami after being hit by a pickup truck about 3 p.m. today while bicycling south on Card Sound Road at Mile Marker 88.6, according to Florida Highway Patrol and Associated Press reports.
  • (Florida Keys News)
  • WAY back when, on the set of Superman II, Christopher Reeve asked Gene Hackman: How did they persuade you to be in a Superman movie? You mean besides the money? Hackman replied. Exactly.
  • (Sydney Morning Herald)
  • The actor also known as Popeye Doyle or Lux Luthor (from Superman IV)was involved in an accident where his bike was hit by a car. Gene Hackman (81) was air lifted to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
  • (Short News)
  • Gene Hackmans publicist says the Unforgiven actor was briefly hospitalized after being bumped by a car while he was riding a bicycle. Susan Madore says the 81-year-old was airlifted to a Miami hospital Friday afternoon.
  • (WDEF)
  • It's like casting Gene Hackman in anything. Even a mediocre screenplay becomes a very good movie when you give a central role to a real pro instead of choosing someone anonymous.
  • (Comicraft's annual font sale nearly here - Chicago Sun-Times)
  • The Firm brought Grisham so much recognition that it was adapted into a successful 1993 movie of the same name starring Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. But its only now, 20 years after the book was published, that were getting the TV version of the tale.
  • (CNN)
  • Cast includes Gene Hackman (as a hollering preacher), Shelley Winters (she swims!), Roddy McDowall, Ernie Borgnine, Red Buttons, Pamela Sue Martin (hey, whatever happened to her?), Stella Stevens and Jack Albertson.
  • (Dallas Observer (blog))
  • TAMPA — For all his love of Hickory High, Jimmy Chitwood's jumper and Gene Hackman's locker room poignance, veteran Tampa Catholic coach Don Dziagwa is the consummate anti-Hoosier these days.
  • (St. Petersburg Times)
  • (Think Gene Hackman's emotionally airtight Everyman from "The Conversation.") The veteran London actor can point to Smiley as the career antithesis of his overacting extravaganza as a corrupt cop in 1994's "The Professional.
  • (Kansas City Star)

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