Another week and another famous person has died, or more aptly, two: this time the supremely talented Alan Arkin. He excelled as psychiatrist Dr Oatman in Grosse Pointe Blank:
And held his own against a cohort of gifted actors in Glengarry Glen Ross as struggling salesman George Aaronow:
And more recently I spotted him in true-life Iran Hostage Crisis movie Argo.
Also an underrated talent who passed this week: Frederic Forrest, Chef from Apocalypse Now. The greatest war movie ever made (on which I did a quarter of my second year dissertation).
Forrest was also in The Conversation, another 70s movie, these three being the most recognisable of his films, but a man of his skill should really have been a household name.
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