Sports Poets Society

Getty Images  Gene Hackman et Betsy Arakawa en 1986. Bisbilles en héritage 4/5 -  Six mois après l’annonce de la mort de l’acteur américain et de son épouse, le 26 février, les médias s’arrachent les détails des derniers jours. Leur reconstitution décidera de la destination d’une fortune de 80 millions de dollars.Photo Getty ImaGesGene Hackman et Betsy Arakawa en 1986. De moins en moins autonome,  le vieil acteur s’est éloigné de ses enfants,  même s’ils ne se sont jamais brouillés ouvertement. 9 Aug 2025 - Libération Par Arthur Cerf Il y a des coups d’oeil qu’on préférerait ne pas avoir jetés. Le 26 février 2025, Jesse Kesler , 52 ans, homme à tout faire et dirigeant de la société Mud City Builders, se dirige vers une vaste demeure de Santa Fe, au Nouveau-Mexique. Deux de ses meilleurs clients, pour qui il travaille depuis seize ans, vivent là. Mais cela fait deux semaines qu’il n’a plus de nouvelle. Jesse Kessler frappe à la porte, rien. Il tente de joindre un memb...

La vittoria più impronosticabile dell’Indiana. FOTO: The Today Show https://aroundthegame.com/post/gene-hackman-hoosiers-e-la-magia-della-milan-high-school/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email Gene Hackman non c’è più. Il che è assurdo da dire ad alta voce, perché per chi ama il cinema e lo sport, Hackman è eterno. Se n’è andato uno degli attori più autentici e carismatici di sempre, capace di incarnare con naturalezza sia Jimmy Doyle, il detective brizzolato che spacca tutto (Il braccio violento della legge, 1971), sia Lex Luthor, il ‘cattivo’ più sopra le righe di tutti (Superman, 1978). Ma Hackman era molto di più: un artista che sapeva rendere ogni ruolo umano, credibile, indimenticabile. Ciò detto, per noi amanti del basket, Hackman è – e sarà sempre – coach Norman Dale. Il condottiero ruvido e ostinato di Hoosiers, il film che ha cristallizzato sullo schermo l’essenza dell’underdog sportivo. Un personaggio che, con il suo carisma burbero e la sua visione granitica del gioco,...

Gene Hackman, who got the racing bug while filming The French Connection, is Toyota's most successful celebrity driver.  He has won three such races at Watkins Glen and Long Beach.  Paul Harris/Getty Images https://www.hagerty.com/media/people/gene-hackman-was-the-most-impressive-celebrity-driver-bob-bondurant-ever-coached/ Steven Cole Smith 27 February 2025 Share Before I write a little about the afternoon I spent with actor/gentleman racer Gene Hackman—who was found dead Wednesday in his Santa Fe, New Mexico, home with his wife and one of their dogs—I should explain how I got the interview. At the time, I was working for the Dallas Times Herald newspaper, where I was not necessarily known for being a good reporter as much as a prolific one; I could turn an interview into a story pretty quickly. I kind of fell into a role that I referred to as the “PPTT” reporter, who interviewed People Passing Through Town . That covered a wide spectrum of semi-newsworthy individuals, from ...

Ma allora non era immortale.... Era alto, ma con una faccia più che ordinaria. Non aveva le carte in regola per diventare una star. Poi però la Nuova Hollywood di Coppola e soci travolse le regole. E da “Gangster Movie” a “Gli spietati” recitò in un centinaio di film: una decina sono capolavori 28 feb 2025 - L'Unità David Romoli “Popeye è un fascista”: era lapidario il commento di Gene Hackman sul personaggio che nel 1971 gli aveva meritato l’Oscar e un successo da quel momento imperituro. Un poliziotto onesto ma con la mano pesante, colorato in tinte più cupe del quasi contemporaneo Dirty Harry Callahan di Clint Eastwood. Non era un novellino Hackman. Aveva 41 anni, parecchi per diventare un divo e anche alla recitazione era arrivato relativamente tardi, dopo i 25 anni anche se raccontava di aver scelto il palcoscenico già a 10 anni. Era nato in California, a San Bernardino ma cresciuto nell’Illinois. A 16 anni, mentendo sull’età che non glielo avrebbe consentito, si era arruolato...

In praise of the great Gene Hackman Appreciation: A chameleonic everyman with charisma. 28 Feb 2025 - The Washington Post BY TY BURR Ty Burr is the author of the movie recommendation newsletter Ty Burr’s Watch List at tyburrswatchlist.com. Most people have a favorite Gene Hackman performance. I have two. The actor, a chameleonic everyman with a movie star’s charisma, was found dead Wednesday with his wife, Betsy Arakawa, and their dog in their New Mexico home. (An investigation into their deaths is ongoing.) Hackman was 95 and had stopped acting after playing a fictional former president in the 2004 satirical political film “Welcome to Mooseport.” He had a long and well-deserved retirement, and by all accounts a happy one. He also had the love and admiration of audiences who felt that one of their own had somehow clambered up there on the screen, with a face like a beer mug and an unassuming sense of his own Hackman, in a famous robbery scene, leap over a bank counter while very much l...

Everyman actor’s roles defined cinema for decades 28 Feb 2025 - The Washington Post WASHINGTON POST STAFF Gene Hackman, who has died at 95, was a stunner in great movies and the best thing in many bad ones — a rumpled, roiling, always complex and often combustible presence who helped define the New Hollywood of the late ’60s and ’ 70s before going on to a varied and generous career. The writers and editors of The Washington Post picked some of their favorite Hackman performances. ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ (1967) “Bonnie and Clyde” landed as a new kind of violent, of-the-moment but mythically immortal American movie, but with Hackman’s supporting role it more quietly announced the emergence of a new kind of American star: the everyman actor. Watch self-worth. When Hackman was a struggling actor in the 1950s and early 1960s, he was close friends with Dustin Hoffman and Robert Duvall , none of them considered leading men at the time, and certainly not the stuff of which movie stars are mad...

28 feb 2025 - The Washington Post BY FRANZ LIDZ Gene Hackman, an actor who powerfully embodied ordinary men under stress in dozens of films and twice won Oscars for bringing humanizing depth to corrupt lawmen, from the raging cop in “The French Connection” to the ruthless sheriff in “Unforgiven,” was found dead Feb. 26 along with his wife at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was 95. Mr. Hackman and Betsy Arakawa’s cause of death was not yet known, but the local sheriff ’s office said in a news release that there were no signs of foul play. Officers suspected that Mr. Hackman may have “suddenly fallen,” according to an affidavit obtained by The Washington Post . A 6-foot-2 former Marine , Mr. Hackman was an imposing man with a curly nimbus of receding hair and a jowly potato face that he called “your everyday mine worker’s mug.” He was peerless at conveying frustration and throttled rage, but he showed glimmers of romantic warmth and a deft, if underused, comic flair. His onetime...