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| Oscar winner Jack Palance dead at 87 | |
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| LadyElton | Nov 10 2006, 03:17 PM Post #1 |
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Oscar winner Jack Palance dies LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Actor Jack Palance, who won an Oscar at 70 with his comedic self-parody in "City Slickers," died Friday. He also played a craggy-faced menace in "Shane," "Sudden Fear" and other films. Palance died of natural causes at his home in Montecito, California, surrounded by family, said spokesman Dick Guttman. He was 85, according to Associated Press records, but his family gave his age as 87. When Palance accepted his 1992 Oscar for best supporting actor, he delighted Academy Awards viewers by dropping to the stage and performing one-armed push-ups to demonstrate his physical prowess. "That's nothing, really," he said slyly. "As far as two-handed push-ups, you can do that all night, and it doesn't make a difference whether she's there or not." That year's Oscar host, Billy Crystal, turned the moment into a running joke, making increasingly outlandish remarks about Palance's accomplishments throughout the show. It was a magic moment that epitomized the actor's 40 years in films. Always the iconoclast, Palance had scorned most of his movie roles. "Most of the stuff I do is garbage," he once told a reporter, adding that most of the directors he worked with were incompetent, too. "Most of them shouldn't even be directing traffic," he said. Movie audiences, though, were electrified by the actor's chiseled face, hulking presence and the calm, low voice that made his screen presence all the more intimidating. His film debut came in 1950, playing a murderer named Blackie in "Panic in the Streets." After a war picture, "Halls of Montezuma," he portrayed the ardent lover who stalks the terrified Joan Crawford in 1952's "Sudden Fear." The role earned him his first Academy Award nomination for supporting actor. The following year brought his second nomination when he portrayed Jack Wilson, the swaggering gunslinger who bullies peace-loving Alan Ladd into a barroom duel in the Western classic "Shane." That role cemented Palance's reputation as Hollywood's favorite menace, and he went on to appear in such films as "Arrowhead" (as a renegade Apache), "Man in the Attic" (as Jack the Ripper), "Sign of the Pagan" (as Attila the Hun) and "The Silver Chalice" (as a fictional challenger to Jesus). Other prominent films included "Kiss of Fire," "The Big Knife," "I Died a Thousand Deaths," "Attack!" "The Lonely Man" and "House of Numbers." Copyright 2006 CNN. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Associated Press contributed to this report. |
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| DivaDeb | Nov 10 2006, 03:48 PM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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RIP
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| ivorythumper | Nov 10 2006, 04:17 PM Post #3 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Well, it's about time. |
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| Dewey | Nov 10 2006, 04:43 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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"Hi Curly, kill anyone today?' "Day ain't over yet..."
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| Jamie | Nov 10 2006, 05:47 PM Post #5 |
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Junior Carp
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Who can forget when he finished his Oscar acceptance speech with one arm push-ups on the stage? A classic awards show moment. |
| Rudy - September 1, 1998 - April 8, 2009... One awesome dog | |
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| mmmaestro007 | Nov 10 2006, 07:19 PM Post #6 |
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Middle Aged Carp
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Believe it, or Not! :rolleyes: |
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"Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands, and all you can do is scratch it!" Sir Thomas Beechem, conductor | |
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