{"id":12137,"date":"2022-07-07T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12137"},"modified":"2022-07-20T10:49:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T17:49:01","slug":"james-caan-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/07\/07\/james-caan-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"James Caan Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/07\/james-caan-dead-the-godfather-brians-song-1235059572\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Deadline<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">James Caan Dies: \u2018The Godfather\u2019 Oscar Nominee, \u2018Brian\u2019s Song\u2019 &amp; \u2018Elf\u2019 Star Was 82<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/epedersen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Erik Pedersen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Straight talk from James Caan\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gLBFE8KuIig?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/james-caan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">James Caan<\/a>, the tough-guy actor who scored an Oscar nom as mafioso Sonny Corleone in\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-godfather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Godfather<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and an Emmy nom for playing NFL running back Brian Piccolo in\u00a0<em>Brian\u2019s Song,\u00a0<\/em>among a host of big film and TV roles including\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/elf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elf<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Las Vegas<\/em>, died Wednesday night in Los Angeles. He was 82. His family confirmed the news on Caan\u2019s Twitter page but gave no other details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a decade in the business, Caan shot to fame in the early 1970s with back-to-back signature roles. He earned an Emmy nom as the real-life cancer-stricken Chicago Bears running back Brian Piccolo in ABC\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Brian\u2019s Song,&nbsp;<\/em>alongside Billy Dee Williams as fellow Bears running back Gale Sayers. The heart-rending tale of the hard-forged friendship among the NFL\u2019s first interracial roommates was the most-watched TV movie ever at that point, with a 32.9 rating\/48 share and went on to win five Emmys including Outstanding Single Program \u2013 Drama or Comedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/07\/francis-ford-coppola-james-caan-godfather-statement-1235059830\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Francis Ford Coppola Honors His \u2018Godfather\u2019 Star James Caan: \u201cWill Never Be Forgotten\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a 2011 interview with the Television Academy Foundation (watch it<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h2MmufKTDsE&amp;t=106s\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0here<\/a>), Emmy-winning\u00a0<em>Brian\u2019s Song<\/em>\u00a0screenwriter William Blinn said: \u201cJimmy\u2019s Jimmy. He always had a cockiness, a confidence. Very competitive. Edgy, in the best sense of the word. But he\u2019s a guy with all the pluses and minuses you can have.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/07\/james-caan-dead-the-godfather-brians-song-1235059572\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to read full article at Deadline<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Deadline James Caan Dies: \u2018The Godfather\u2019 Oscar Nominee, \u2018Brian\u2019s Song\u2019 &amp; \u2018Elf\u2019 Star Was 82 By\u00a0Erik Pedersen James Caan, the tough-guy actor who scored an Oscar nom as mafioso Sonny Corleone in\u00a0The Godfather\u00a0and an Emmy nom for playing NFL running back Brian Piccolo in\u00a0Brian\u2019s Song,\u00a0among a host of big film and TV roles including\u00a0Elf\u00a0and\u00a0Las [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}