Quantcast
Channel: Local Opinion Archives - The Republic News
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 1629

Mike Sielski: The great Gene Hackman is gone, and so is Hollywood’s greatest coach: Norman Dale of ‘Hoosiers’

$
0
0
Mike Sielski: The great Gene Hackman is gone, and so is Hollywood’s greatest coach: Norman Dale of ‘Hoosiers’

PHILADELPHIA — You might think of him first as Lex Luthor or Popeye Doyle or Little Bill Daggett or even as the blind hermit who sets Peter Boyle’s thumb ablaze. But chances are, if you are both a sports fan and a movie buff, when you learned that Gene Hackman had died Wednesday at 95, after an acting career as accomplished and diverse as any in the history of Hollywood, you thought first of one character and one film.

Continue reading at The Republic News.


Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 1629

Trending Articles