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All The NIGHT MOVES

Remembering Gene Hackman

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Marshall Shaffer
Mar 23, 2025
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There’s a stock phrase critics often use to describe compelling actors: “I’d watch them read the phone book.” With the late Gene Hackman, however, I’d probably defend his greatness by using a metaphor from the opposite end of the telephone spectrum. I’d watch him listen to his phone messages.

I guess that’s not much of a metaphor since I have literally w…

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