Radio Attack » film http://wahdis.com/RadioAttack In this world, a man himself is nothing. And there ain't no world, but this one. Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:00:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Ben Gazzara, 1930 – 2012 http://wahdis.com/RadioAttack/ben-gazzara/ http://wahdis.com/RadioAttack/ben-gazzara/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:39:00 +0000 chris http://wahdis.com/RadioAttack/?p=19 If there was an Oscar category for “Best Mean Bastard”, Ben Gazzara would have won it a half dozen times.  There are few characters in film who burn as intensely as Cosmo Vitelli, the sleazy, desperate nightclub owner he played in The Killing of a Chinese Bookie.

Farewell to one tough SOB and the greatest actor to walk the earth.  A tribute in The New Yorker says it best:

He’ll be remembered for just a handful of roles, out of the one hundred thirty-three listed in IMDb, but those are among the very summits of movie history.

]]> http://wahdis.com/RadioAttack/ben-gazzara/feed/ 0 So long, Peter Falk http://wahdis.com/RadioAttack/so-long-peter-falk/ http://wahdis.com/RadioAttack/so-long-peter-falk/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:00:10 +0000 chris http://wahdis.com/RadioAttack/so-long-peter-falk/ Of all actors who had a glass eye, he was the best.

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