RIP Karen Black
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RIP Karen Black
Karen Black, who was Oscar-nommed for “Five Easy Pieces” and starred in films including “Nashville” and “Easy Rider,” died Thursday after a long battle with cancer. She was 74.
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Re: RIP Karen Black
Shows how I pay attention -- I don't remember Ms. Black in Five Easy Pieces at all, but I remember her clearly in what I thought was an excellent performance in what was otherwise one of the worst movies I've ever seen, The Great Gatsby starring Robert Redford.
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Re: RIP Karen Black
I remember her best from Dan Curtis's TV movie Trilogy of Terror, based upon three stories by the recently-deceased Richard Matheson. I still wonder how some of that movie got past the 70s-era network censors.
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Re: RIP Karen Black
I'm not familiar with Spiff's referenced movie, but I can tell you that the 70s were huge for soft porn and related behavior. Ray Stevens didn't invent streaking for his No. 1 song. It was a very strange time.I still wonder how some of that movie got past the 70s-era network censors.
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Re: RIP Karen Black
Karen Black is the actress with the all-time lowest Oracle of Bacon number (and ranks #26 overall), which measures how closely connected she is to every other actor. Her current number is 2.895, meaning that the average actor can be linked to her in slightly less than three movies. Harvey Keitel is currently the highest rated actor at 2.848. The next best actress is Susan Sarandon at #41.
http://oracleofbacon.org/onecenter.php? ... +Black+(I)
Kevin Bacon does not rank in the top 100 (currently #370).
http://oracleofbacon.org/onecenter.php? ... +Black+(I)
Kevin Bacon does not rank in the top 100 (currently #370).
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Re: RIP Karen Black
The movie wasn't porn, soft or otherwise. It was rather intense violence and suspense for a TV movie.SportsFan68 wrote:I'm not familiar with Spiff's referenced movie, but I can tell you that the 70s were huge for soft porn and related behavior. Ray Stevens didn't invent streaking for his No. 1 song. It was a very strange time.I still wonder how some of that movie got past the 70s-era network censors.
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Shows what I know. I don't remember a lot of intense violence in the 70s.silverscreenselect wrote:The movie wasn't porn, soft or otherwise. It was rather intense violence and suspense for a TV movie.SportsFan68 wrote:I'm not familiar with Spiff's referenced movie, but I can tell you that the 70s were huge for soft porn and related behavior. Ray Stevens didn't invent streaking for his No. 1 song. It was a very strange time.I still wonder how some of that movie got past the 70s-era network censors.
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Re: RIP Karen Black
It was in all the papers. --BobSportsFan68 wrote:Shows what I know. I don't remember a lot of intense violence in the 70s.silverscreenselect wrote:The movie wasn't porn, soft or otherwise. It was rather intense violence and suspense for a TV movie.SportsFan68 wrote:
I'm not familiar with Spiff's referenced movie, but I can tell you that the 70s were huge for soft porn and related behavior. Ray Stevens didn't invent streaking for his No. 1 song. It was a very strange time.
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Re: RIP Karen Black
SportsFan68 wrote: Shows what I know. I don't remember a lot of intense violence in the 70s.
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Re: RIP Karen Black
Trust me, if you had seen it, you would have remembered it.SportsFan68 wrote:Shows what I know. I don't remember a lot of intense violence in the 70s.silverscreenselect wrote:The movie wasn't porn, soft or otherwise. It was rather intense violence and suspense for a TV movie.SportsFan68 wrote:
I'm not familiar with Spiff's referenced movie, but I can tell you that the 70s were huge for soft porn and related behavior. Ray Stevens didn't invent streaking for his No. 1 song. It was a very strange time.
The sequence in the picture I included in my post is early in the third vignette (and the one that everyone remembers) where Ms. Black's character receives a package with the pictured Zuni fetish doll in it. And he's not very nice, very relentless, and is a real (stabbing) pain.
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Re: RIP Karen Black
SpacemanSpiff wrote:Trust me, if you had seen it, you would have remembered it.SportsFan68 wrote:Shows what I know. I don't remember a lot of intense violence in the 70s.silverscreenselect wrote:
The movie wasn't porn, soft or otherwise. It was rather intense violence and suspense for a TV movie.
The sequence in the picture I included in my post is early in the third vignette (and the one that everyone remembers) where Ms. Black's character receives a package with the pictured Zuni fetish doll in it. And he's not very nice, very relentless, and is a real (stabbing) pain.
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Re: RIP Karen Black
Found it!littlebeast13 wrote:SpacemanSpiff wrote:Trust me, if you had seen it, you would have remembered it.SportsFan68 wrote:
Shows what I know. I don't remember a lot of intense violence in the 70s.
The sequence in the picture I included in my post is early in the third vignette (and the one that everyone remembers) where Ms. Black's character receives a package with the pictured Zuni fetish doll in it. And he's not very nice, very relentless, and is a real (stabbing) pain.
Sprots usually needs to have me draw her a diagram....
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I don't recall all the details of the movie, but I know I've seen it. That was one nasty doll!
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Re: RIP Karen Black
Everytime there is a reference to Karen Black I think of the ending scene where she is squatting down on the floor waiting for her husband/boyfriend, stabbing the butcher knife into the floor over and over and over.MarleysGh0st wrote: I don't recall all the details of the movie, but I know I've seen it. That was one nasty doll!
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