invisible airwave Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 Say hi to Fredo and part 1 Vito for us. https://www.looper.com/919925/the-devastating-death-of-james-caan/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 Crap, Caan was a quality guy. RIP James 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 (edited) Edited July 7, 2022 by Principled Man 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepphead Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 A fantastic actor. RIP James. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjbear05 Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 (edited) So long Santino and the "Thief" ( with it's great soundtrack by Tangerine Dream.) RIP James. Edited July 7, 2022 by pjbear05 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IbanezJem Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 RIP James. Great actor, saw him in "The Good Neighbour" recently, such an understated role but actors of his calibre always retain a presence on screen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-0-0-1-0-0-1 Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 Caan had a unique way of delivering lines and making them his own, like this one from Eraser, where he was threatening a fellow bad guy: "You know, some people take things for granted, like the ability to chew solid food." RIP, James. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 I don't want my brother coming out of that toilet with just his dick in his hands, alright? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhawkrush Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 Don Adams is waiting to play a round of golf. R.I.P. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova Carmina Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 Thanks for the entertainment and the memories. Well done. RIP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 The many roles that he refused are mind-boggling. Superman, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Apocalypse Now….. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted July 8, 2022 Author Share Posted July 8, 2022 1 hour ago, Principled Man said: The many roles that he refused are mind-boggling. Superman, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Apocalypse Now….. In a way, he dodged the bullet on the last one as good as it is just for it's well known troubled production judging by the Hearts of Darkness documentary Showtime made a few decades ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 43 minutes ago, invisible airwave said: In a way, he dodged the bullet on the last one as good as it is just for it's well known troubled production judging by the Hearts of Darkness documentary Showtime made a few decades ago. He had zero interest in hanging out in the Philippine jungle for days and days…..LOL 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted July 8, 2022 Author Share Posted July 8, 2022 8 hours ago, 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 said: Caan had a unique way of delivering lines and making them his own, like this one from Eraser, where he was threatening a fellow bad guy: "You know, some people take things for granted, like the ability to chew solid food." RIP, James. Part of another classic Ahnuld one liner when Spoiler Caan is killed off at the end. "They caught a train." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 He was also great in Elf. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek19 Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 I'm sorry, to hear, see, and read this. He was a gifted, and talented actor, who was in some classic, timeless, and great movies. He will be missed, and remembered. My condolences, and sympathies, to his family, and friends. R.I.P., James. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormtron Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueschica Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 (edited) On 7/7/2022 at 1:26 PM, Principled Man said: Yup. That's what I thought of immediately when I heard. Early in his career, such a good movie. (Brian's Song, not Rollerball, although that was good in its own way. ) RIP, Mr. Caan- you will be missed. Edited July 8, 2022 by blueschica 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted July 9, 2022 Author Share Posted July 9, 2022 Watched this movie a lot on Showtime in junior high after it came out. Nic Cage and Jim Carrey were my acting idols back then. "Queen." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steevo Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 Damn, some superfine work that man put out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 [An article by David Von Drehle of The Washington Post] On the evening of Nov. 30, 1971, American males got in touch with our feelings, thanks to a TV movie called “Brian’s Song.” It was the Tuesday after the long Thanksgiving weekend. We’d celebrated the holiday in the manly way: dad in his jacket and tie and me in an itchy sweater, accompanying the womenfolk to church. We mumbled along as the congregation sang “Come, Ye Thankful People, Come,” because mumbling was more masculine than singing. Then we returned home to watch football while mom toiled in the steamy kitchen. Did we offer to help? Ha! Males did not cook in those days unless they were outdoors, or French. The sole exception to this rule was the carving of the Thanksgiving turkey, a solemn task reserved for The Father — even if, like mine, he was neither a butcher nor a surgeon but simply worked at a warehouse. We might say today that carving the turkey was “a performance of masculine stereotypes.” So it was. But we had no words for such a concept because we weren’t in touch with our feelings. Dads carved turkeys. We knew this from pictures in our schoolbooks. Equally rigid was the rule that Big Boys Don’t Cry. This Eleventh Commandment was a source of great concern to me. At 10 years old, I was most definitely a Big Boy, with a poster of an NFL lineman over my bed and a plastic ring from Woolworth’s on my girlfriend’s finger. But I was still known to cry sometimes. I secretly feared I was a crybaby. On the fateful night, we took our customary places around the 19-inch TV screen. It seems unimaginable now, but back then, Americans had only three choices (apart from local programming and educational stuff). The obvious choice for manly males was the new movie on ABC. It was about football. But it was not about football. “Brian’s Song” was a love story to the sound of crashing shoulder pads and trilling whistles, with a haunting theme song that soon filled the radio airwaves. It celebrated the real-life brotherhood between the gifted halfback Gale Sayers (played by supercool Billy Dee Williams) and the bantam fullback Brian Piccolo on the Chicago Bears football team of the late 1960s. James Caan played Piccolo. Their friendship was the beau ideal of warrior comrades. Shared struggles ripened into mutual respect, then deepened into genuine trust and, finally, as Piccolo faced his early death by cancer, became something even more. “I love Brian Piccolo,” Sayers declared — in life and in the movie. It was a shocking statement to the wartime generation and its sons, boldly naming a feeling we craved despite its fearsome power. Men cried that night for the young and beautiful dead, and for those who survived them and went on. It had not always been true that big boys don’t cry. The literature of past ages is full of tears of joy, of sorrow, of pride, of wonder. Even the Bible pauses for this two-word verse: “Jesus wept.” But there was a damming of the tear ducts among men who knew the love and loss of comrades from Ypres to Iwo Jima to Ia Drang. And the bond between Sayers and Piccolo was something more in 1971, when the nation was aflame. Sayers was Black. Piccolo was White. Their brief and glorious friendship suggested that healing might be possible, even as Piccolo’s death at 26 warned of its evanescence. “Brian’s Song” came at the start of a decade of magnificent filmmaking, but it was not a great movie. Only a powerful one. It was a statement of intense feeling that neither hid nor apologized for its heart. It was an argument in favor of caring, the case for giving a damn. I tried not to cry during the final minutes, dutifully performing my masculine stereotype. But I failed. I’m not sure I’ve ever met a guy who succeeded. When I stole a guilty glimpse toward my father to see if he had caught me welling up, I saw glassy pools in his eyes. I don’t know that he cried very often after that. I, on the other hand, have been a river of tears. It’s a joke among my family and friends. Here’s a sunrise. Here’s a commercial for coffee at Christmas. Here’s a sappy old song on the radio. Dave’s probably going to weep. I’ve learned to stop apologizing. Caan went on to play Sonny Corleone in arguably the best of those 1970s masterpieces, “The Godfather.” His performance earned an Oscar nomination. Yet for me and for millions of American males who were surprised by feeling on that long-ago November night, he was forever Brian Piccolo. Which is why, when news came of his death, I cried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 On 7/8/2022 at 7:23 PM, blueschica said: Yup. That's what I thought of immediately when I heard. Early in his career, such a good movie. (Brian's Song, not Rollerball, although that was good in its own way. ) RIP, Mr. Caan- you will be missed. No way Becky, ROLLERBALL is kick ass! I 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonatine Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 I know I'm coming into this way late, but I have always admired Caan's acting abilities even though he probably never received the same respect from film critics compared to the usual suspects, Pacino and Bob de Niro. For me his best film was "Thief", directed by Michael Man back in 1981. A crime/thriller with Caan's character trying to go straight from a life of being a thief. This could have been just another bad-guy-does-good, but Caan's role was certainly far more rounded and engrossing especially with his personal confessions over coffee with his on/off girlfriend Tuesday Weld. Even some of the more stoic film critics such as Rogert Ebert admired not only the film itself but also Caan's enthralling performance. A film well worth checking out 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken hawk Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 RIP James 7-6-22. Great Actor in his days ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted December 29, 2022 Author Share Posted December 29, 2022 (edited) 11 hours ago, Sonatine said: I know I'm coming into this way late, but I have always admired Caan's acting abilities even though he probably never received the same respect from film critics compared to the usual suspects, Pacino and Bob de Niro. For me his best film was "Thief", directed by Michael Man back in 1981. A crime/thriller with Caan's character trying to go straight from a life of being a thief. This could have been just another bad-guy-does-good, but Caan's role was certainly far more rounded and engrossing especially with his personal confessions over coffee with his on/off girlfriend Tuesday Weld. Even some of the more stoic film critics such as Rogert Ebert admired not only the film itself but also Caan's enthralling performance. A film well worth checking out Saw that on some Starz channel many years ago. One of the best directorial debuts ever. My personal favorite from Mann is The Insider. I had forgotten he was in this since it had quite a number of cameos like Dustin Hoffman. I remember before finishing 3rd grade wanting those "I wast there first!" shirts those commercials advertised for so bad. Now, they're being sold on eBay et al. Here's my 9 year old self chance! Edited December 29, 2022 by invisible airwave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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