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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 --- 45 days ago http://stkarnick.com/blog2/2008/03/the_art_of_richard_widmark.html
| Hollywood actor Richard Widmark dies at age 93, represented Hollywood's heyday. Richard Widmark , best known for his Academy Award-nominated performance as a giggling, grinning gangster in the 1947 film noir classic Kiss of Death and as an NYPD policeman in the 1970s TV program Madigan , represents a Hollywood long gone and greatly missed, where on-camera performers and others involved in making films saw themselves as professionals, not artists—and succeeded in creating real art much more often than today's more overtly ambitious and politically active generation. Madigan was based on a very good film directed by Donald Siegel, which is well worth seeing . For more on Widmark and his career, see the AP story . ... |
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