No Longer Running For His Life

(Props to Mike Mulcahy)

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Brick on a Cold Tin Slab

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Anatomy of a Malignancy
Ben Gazzara, who got nearly jeté-d to death in Road House, has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 81. The original Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on Broadway, Gazzara studied at the same Actors Studio as Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger and was a similarly intense Method actor. A frequent partner of John Cassavetes in his early independent movies like Husbands and The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Gazzara viewed the major Hollywood roles he was offered with disdain, seeing them as beneath his idealistic approach. He made up for that later in life, appearing in 38 films during the 1990s alone, most of them direct to cable dreck like Too Tired to Die, The Zone, Vicious Circles and Ladykiller. Other roles included his Emmy-nominated stint in Run for Your Life, an anthology series about a man completing his bucket list after being given 18 months to live that ran for 3 seasons, a soldier on trial for killing his wife’s rapist in Anatomy of a Murder and a porn producer in The Big Lebowksi.