{"id":13677,"date":"2025-03-27T13:09:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T20:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13677"},"modified":"2025-04-07T13:10:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T20:10:01","slug":"hackman-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/03\/27\/hackman-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackman Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>from The Atlantic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">There Was Never a Movie Star Like Gene Hackman<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Story by&nbsp;David Sims<\/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=\"Gene Hackman - clips from all his movies\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ECcwSRF7lkM?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>In 1956, an aspiring young actor named Gene Hackman joined the Pasadena Playhouse in California, struggling to find a way into a field he\u2019d been fascinated with since childhood. Hackman, who was born in 1930, had already served five years in the Marine Corps, then bounced around New York, Florida, Illinois, and other places without much luck. His good friend at Pasadena was another ambitious performer, Dustin Hoffman; together, they were voted \u201cleast likely to succeed\u201d by their peers before washing out and moving back to New York to try scratching out a living. Even at the age of 26, Hackman\u2019s hardscrabble features meant he looked like the furthest thing from a marquee idol\u2014he seemed destined to be a bit player at best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But over the next 50-odd years, Hackman would become the greatest, coolest, earthiest star of what\u2019s now known as New Hollywood: an everyman who defined a generation of moviemaking better than anyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ click to continue reading at The Atlantic n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Atlantic There Was Never a Movie Star Like Gene Hackman Story by&nbsp;David Sims In 1956, an aspiring young actor named Gene Hackman joined the Pasadena Playhouse in California, struggling to find a way into a field he\u2019d been fascinated with since childhood. Hackman, who was born in 1930, had already served five years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-13677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13677","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}