Tag: The Big Easy
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Losing 40lbs For Wyatt Earp Affected Dennis Quaid Long After Shooting Was Done
Dennis Quaid spent the entirety of the 1980s on the cusp of movie stardom. He popped as a cocksure Indiana yokel in Peter Yates’ 1979 underdog drama “Breaking Away,” commencing a flirtation that bopped from Mercury Seven astronaut Gordon Cooper in “The Right Stuff” to corrupt New Orleans cop Remy McSwain in “The Big Easy”…
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Ned Beatty, star of Deliverance, Network and Superman, dies aged 83
Prolific supporting actor also appeared in All the President’s Men, Nashville, The Big Easy and Hear My SongNed Beatty, the Oscar-nominated character actor who in half a century of American movies, including Deliverance, Network and Superman, was a booming, indelible presence in even the smallest parts, has died. He was 83.Beatty’s manager, Deborah Miller, said…
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‘I didn’t go looking for someone younger’: Dennis Quaid on his new love and new roles
The Hollywood star on his much-discussed engagement to a PhD student, why TV is now more interesting than film – and how he hopes to see the end of casting-couch cultureDennis Quaid is tired of talking about the cocaine addiction that landed him in rehab in 1990 and stunted his Hollywood career after a promising…