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Gene Hackman

Palace Old Geezer said:
Yep, and I think the director, Friedkin, encouraged it on the grounds of authenticity. Like the famous car chase under the elevated rail tracks which was mostly filmed live in one shoot in actual traffic at speeds of up to 90mph. The only staged scene was the mother stepping out with a pram. The driver, Bill Hickman also drove the villain's car in the classic Bullitt chase.
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And no permission from the New York authorities.

They were not pleased.
 
Eagleman13 said:
Heard whisper its carbon monoxide poisoning, trying to find confirmation.
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I asked the AI program Grok what it thought of the possibility. Here's what it said:

The fire department tested for CO and found no obvious signs of a leak or poisoning. The New Mexico Gas Company also checked the gas lines and reported no issues with the pipes. The front door was ajar when maintenance workers discovered the bodies, which could mean any CO present had vented out before testing—CO dissipates quickly in open air. Still, the lack of detectable gas and the condition of the surviving dogs complicate the theory.

Could they have died from CO? Yes, it’s possible. A malfunctioning space heater near Arakawa could’ve released CO, killing her, the nearby dog, and Hackman in another room if levels were high enough. The two living dogs might’ve been in a better-ventilated area or outside. But the absence of CO evidence on-site leans against it. The sheriff’s office calls the deaths “suspicious” due to scattered pills, the moved heater, and the separate locations of the bodies—not because of confirmed poisoning. No foul play is suspected yet, but the investigation’s ongoing.

I guess the autopsy results should help.
 
An iconic actor and generational talent. Maybe he was the first "bad guy" I actually liked as Lex Luther in Superman.

Lesser known than some of the movies mentioned but I thought his performance as the corrupt Secretary of Defence in the political thriller No Way Out was excellent.
 
Hackman was old and frail so if it was carbon monoxide he would have been very vulnerable.

A mate lived in a council flat they installed a new smoke and carbon monoxide detector. The next day the bloody thing kept going off so he assumed it was a bodge job by the council and called them in, lucky he did.

It turned out that his cooker had a slow leak and the alarms were working perfectly, they condemned it. He then realised that his girlfriend had been complaining about waking up with headaches for days. He was very lucky.

You can buy a combined smoke and Carbon Monoxide detector but personally I would buy separate. Most people have their boilers (and cookers) in the kitchen which is where you need the CM detector. However the smoke detector is likely to go off when you cook that steak, so better to have them separate and in 2 locations.

They are both cheap and and what price to protect your family. My mate had his grand kids staying all the time and that upset him that he put them at risk, children are far more vulnerable than adults.
 
Palace Old Geezer said:
Yep, and I think the director, Friedkin, encouraged it on the grounds of authenticity. Like the famous car chase under the elevated rail tracks which was mostly filmed live in one shoot in actual traffic at speeds of up to 90mph. The only staged scene was the mother stepping out with a pram. The driver, Bill Hickman also drove the villain's car in the classic Bullitt chase.
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Hackman said he preferred the Bullitt one. Hard to believe he was born before Steve McQueen
 
Palace Old Geezer said:
Yep, and I think the director, Friedkin, encouraged it on the grounds of authenticity. Like the famous car chase under the elevated rail tracks which was mostly filmed live in one shoot in actual traffic at speeds of up to 90mph. The only staged scene was the mother stepping out with a pram. The driver, Bill Hickman also drove the villain's car in the classic Bullitt chase.
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He was also responsible for the car chase in The Seven-Ups which was a good one. It's another 70's New York cop film with Roy Scheider which is pretty good in a downbeat way and appears on TV now and again.
 
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Hackman and his wife's bodies had been there some time. Between a week or two.
I think we're going to need Poirot or Miss Marple on this one.
 
RubinsCube said:
An iconic actor and generational talent. Maybe he was the first "bad guy" I actually liked as Lex Luther in Superman.

Lesser known than some of the movies mentioned but I thought his performance as the corrupt Secretary of Defence in the political thriller No Way Out was excellent.
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Yup, a movie also marked as being the one really decent movie with Kevin Costner.
 
Sometimes they say that a particular character role was "written for Actor-xyz". I dunno about that, but i had always fancied a biopic of Pope Innocent starring Gene Hackman..... I'm not sure if even Hackman himself knew of the likeness.
Francis Bacon confessed to being scared sh1.tless of the Velasquez painting, cos it reminded him of his scary dad.

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