By N.S.
Much of Rowlands’ thr obit is smothered in feminazi talking points and jargon, a good deal of it from Rowlands herself.
“Her husband ‘loved actors, and he had a particular interest in women. women in movies, I should say!’ Rowlands told THR’s Scott Feinberg in 2015. ‘he was interested in women’s problems and where they are in society and what they have to overcome. he offered me some really wonderful parts.’”
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974) - “Tell me what you want me to be”
A Woman Under the Influence (1974) — “Come back to me!”
“Another day on the subway…” Gena Rowlands in Gloria (1980)
In Gloria, Rowlands plays an old mafia moll, whose hispanic friends, who were involved in drug dealing, were murdered. Their killers seek the vics’ little boy, who was hiding in the closet. Gloria rescues the boy, whom she takes on an odyssey, with her pistol, throughout the bronx and manhattan. Her favorite word is “faggot!,” which calls the gangsters who constantly try to murder her and the little boy.
Gena Rowlands at 90. You might want to kill the sound, which is just some improper music.
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“this video is a tribute to Gena Rowlands on her 90th birthday, showcasing her performances in the movies directed by her late husband John Cassavetes: Minnie and Moskowitz (1971), A Woman under the Influence (1974), Opening Night (1977), and Gloria (1980).
“Gena Rowlands – Tribute to a Miraculous Actress”
“In Faces, Rowlands played a caring professional escort.”
Translation: In Faces, Rowlands played a hooker with a heart of gold.
2 comments:
Back in those days(the early to mid 70s),those style of flicks went right over my head--interest-wise.
I'm trying to remember the first movie I went to--of my own volition.
First thing,was getting a driver's license. With that qualification in mind,it might have been "Jaws". No,on second thought,it was "The Exorcist".Under the required age,but me and a buddy got in.
Now the serious movies that Cassavettes and Rowlands specialized in,weren't my cup of tea--which I didn't drink back then either.
--GRA
"HOLLYWOOD SQUARES HOST,PETER MARSHALL JOINS AFTERLIFE VERSION OF THE SHOW--AT AGE 98.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Marshall, the actor and singer turned game show host who played straight man to the stars for 16 years on “The Hollywood Squares,” has died. He was 98.
He died Thursday of kidney failure at his home in the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles, publicist Harlan Boll said.
Marshall helped define the form of the smooth, professional, but never-too-serious modern game show host on more than 5,000 episodes of the series that ran on NBC from 1966 to 1981.
But he was often closer to a talk show host, and the tic-tac-toe game the contestants played, while real, was all an excuse for a good time. The questions Marshall posed to regulars like Paul Lynde, George Gobel and Joan Rivers were designed to be set-ups for joke answers before the real ones followed.
‘Hollywood Squares’ host Peter Marshall. (Credit: NBCU Photo Bank/Getty)
“It was the easiest thing I’ve ever done in show business,” Marshall said in a 2010 interview for the Archive of American Television. “I walked in, said ‘Hello stars,’ I read questions and laughed. And it paid very well.”
“The Hollywood Squares” would become an American cultural institution and make Marshall a household name. It would win four Daytime Emmys for outstanding game show during his run and spawned dozens of international versions and several U.S. reboots. Not only was it a forum for such character actors as Charlie Weaver (the stage name of Cliff Arquette) and Wally Cox, but the show attracted a range of top stars as occasional guests, including Aretha Franklin, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Ed Asner and Janet Leigh.
Marshall had a warm rapport with Weaver, Lynde and others, but said that Gobel, the wry comedian, actor and variety show host, held a special place, tweeting in 2021 that it’s “no secret he was my closest friend on Hollywood Squares and my absolute all-time favorite Square!”
Marshall had lived nearly an entire show business life before he took the “Squares” podium at age 40.
He had toured with big bands starting as a teenager, had been a part of two comedy teams that appeared in nightclubs and on television, appeared in movies as a contract player for Twentieth Century Fox, and had sung in several Broadway musicals when the opportunity came up after Bert Parks, who hosted the pilot, bowed out.
“I am a singer first I am not a game show host,” Marshall told his hometown paper, the Herald-Dispatch of Huntington, West Virginia in 2013, “that was just a freak opportunity. I had been on Broadway with Julie Harris and was going back to Broadway when I did the audition, and I thought it was a few weeks but that turned into 16 years.”
GRA:One of the great shows of yesteryear and Marshall's voice and style were unmistakable. Like "What's My Line"--but better--"Hollywood Squares" was where you went to see your favorite stars,have some laughs--and learn a couple things occasionally.
--GRA
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