Though he’d had small roles in movies and on television throughout the early 1960s (he’d been a Marine before that, and had ...

It is less than fitting that an air of enigma should attend the final act of Hackman’s life. Although his onscreen persona ...

Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were described as private but neighborly by those who got to know them over many years.

"He just smiled that big smile ... One day, Hackman returned the favor with a painted landscape of a tree-lined river. When Ashman initially declined to take it, Hackman politely insisted. "Gene ...

Gene Pitney was born on February 17 ... but a trainer pushes you just that much further." Do you take vitamin and mineral pills? "I take about 20 a day. I take a Solgar multivitamin, C in the ...

A sepulchral, haunting doo-wop ballad, it went to number one in the American charts. Spector was just 17 ... minor hits for such artists as Gene Pitney and Curtis Lee, and co-writing the classic ...

Get Shorty' director Barry Sonnenfeld was abel to work with Gene Hackman on the 1995 film and saw a dark side of the ...