Re: RARA-AVIS: Jack Palance, RIP

From: Patrick King ( abrasax93@yahoo.com)
Date: 11 Nov 2006


Perhaps the last of the old time tough guys. Is there any still left? Mitchum's gone, Cagney's gone, Bogart's long gone as is Raft, Charles Boyer, Arthur Kennedy, Robert Shaw. Sean Connery is in this mold and still with us. Jack Nicholson a little less so because of his complex emotions but still there. But the classic cops/robbers of the 30s, 40s & 50s are gone and not really being replaced. It's as if these tough guys are no longer valid on some artistic level. I was thinking about the new James Bond and I'm really looking forward to this guy because he's the first Bond since Connery who doesn't look like a fashion model. That image is so far from that hard core character of Ian Fleming's with the scars and the unruly hair. I'm disappointed that they didn't go back to square one with the franchise, though. If they set the story in 1953, for example, gave him the old Rolex, and the gun metal cigarette case, the .25 Beretta, and most important the super-charged Bentley, they'd have added a whole new dimension to the franchise. I suppose it's only PBS who is bright enough, or edgy enough, to make choices like that. What comes around goes around. Here's to the new tough guys to come.
--- e_lynskey < e_lynskey@yahoo.com> wrote:

> One of the old-time, tough guys.
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> Ed Lynskey
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