Sunday, February 05, 2012

Film: Newswire: R.I.P. actor Ben Gazzara

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via A.V. Club on 2/3/12

Ben Gazzara, one of the great character actors of his generation, has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 81. A product of New York's Lower East Side, Gazzara grew up speaking the language of his Italian-immigrant parents and had to learn English as his second language. He caught the acting bug while still in his teens, but only signed up at the theater program at The New School after a stint studying electrical engineering at City College didn't pan out. In 1951, he joined the Actors Studio at a time when it was the hottest incubator ...

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