Karen Black has passed away

[JerseyGirl2]

Karen Black has passed away#1

Posted: 8/8/13 at 6:05pm

Come back to the five and dime...

Rest in peace.

Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!

[best12bars]

Karen Black has passed away#2

Posted: 8/8/13 at 6:21pm

An icon of the '70s. Wonderful, original, risky actress. Even when she was bad, she was good, and always interesting to watch.

RIP
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"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[DAME]

Karen Black has passed away#2

Posted: 8/8/13 at 6:24pm

HUSSY POWER! ------ HUSSY POWER!

[best12bars]

Karen Black has passed away#3

Posted: 8/8/13 at 6:29pm

Even when she was magnificently awful, I still loved her.

And those eyes, wherever they were looking.

She was an original.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[TheatreDiva90016]

Karen Black has passed away#4

Posted: 8/8/13 at 6:30pm

She was definitely one-of-a-kind!


She will be missed.

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[strummergirl]

Karen Black has passed away#5

Posted: 8/8/13 at 6:33pm

RIP

[SNAFU]

Karen Black has passed away#6

Posted: 8/8/13 at 6:39pm

I think of her, I think of African Fetish dolls.

RIP

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[TheatreDiva90016]

Karen Black has passed away#7

Posted: 8/8/13 at 6:42pm

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[Reginald Tresilian]

Karen Black has passed away#8

Posted: 8/8/13 at 6:43pm

There are few true originals. She was one.

[nmartin]

Karen Black has passed away#9

Posted: 8/8/13 at 6:46pm

She was the best thing about The Great Gatsby in 74.
I've always liked The Day of the Locust.
Burnt Offerings is a guilty pleasure that I watched again recently.
Late last week I was in Merrehope House in Meridian, MS where she filmed Red Dirt. I was thinking about her then. I'm thinking about her now.

[Jordan Catalano]

Karen Black has passed away#10

Posted: 8/8/13 at 7:25pm

[strummergirl]

Karen Black has passed away#11

Posted: 8/8/13 at 7:27pm

How did I not know her son Hunter Carson was Hunter, the little boy, in Paris, Texas? Just watched that movie last week. That kid had his mother's sass in that movie.

[FindingNamo]

Karen Black has passed away#12

Posted: 8/8/13 at 8:39pm

Who the hell is gonna land the plane now?

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[FindingNamo]

Karen Black has passed away#13

Posted: 8/8/13 at 8:39pm

Since I accidently double posted because I am so worried about the plane, I would just like to praise one of the lesser talked about chapters of "Trilogy of Terror" -- the one in which Karen played a horny teacher seducing a college student, played by the hunky Robert "Skip" Burton who was her husband at the time. I enjoyed thinking about him a lot after the trilogy aired.

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Updated On: 8/8/13 at 08:39 PM

[GavestonPS]

Karen Black has passed away#14

Posted: 8/8/13 at 10:29pm

Even when she was magnificently awful, I still loved her.

Truer words were never spoken. How deeply distressing!

[VeraCharles3]

Karen Black has passed away#15

Posted: 8/9/13 at 4:19am

RIP

A one off original

x

[darreyl102]

Karen Black has passed away#16

Posted: 8/9/13 at 6:42am

i am very sad to hear of her passing- I have the chance to meet her a few years ago and she could not have been a nicer person. She just had such a presence to her- when she was in the room , you knew it!

Darreyl with an L!

[henrikegerman]

Karen Black has passed away#17

Posted: 8/9/13 at 9:47am

A commanding, original artist with broad range sometimes hidden by her often playing women on the extreme emotional edge, which she did with singular vulnerability and style, She had an outstanding ability to make us care.

I agree that when she was awful, she was lovably and magnificently awful, which is itself an extraordinary achievement.

But I'd also suggest that these performances might just strike us (they do me) as being overdone, campy or manipulative - however magnificently and unabashedly - only in clips and out of context, that she was always persuasive and truthful; when one sees those performances in their entirety, her no holds barred style convinced and won us through complete commitment and will, emotional nakedness, selfless risk and sheer talent.

Updated On: 8/9/13 at 09:47 AM

[Borstalboy]

Karen Black has passed away#18

Posted: 8/9/13 at 9:48am

Wild and wonderful. R.I.P.

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

[Roscoe]

Karen Black has passed away#19

Posted: 8/9/13 at 10:05am

RIP, dear lady, and flights of Zuni Warrior Dolls dance thee to thy rest.

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

[Gothampc]

Karen Black has passed away#20

Posted: 8/9/13 at 12:09pm

Always an interesting person to watch. I enjoyed her performance in The Great Gatsby.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[carolineorchange21]

Karen Black has passed away#21

Posted: 8/9/13 at 1:11pm

I had the greatest time watching her and Barbara Harris as dueling leading ladies in Hitchcock's Family Plot. She was so sexy and commanding which is a stark contrast to some of her other performances mentioned in this thread. A testament to her talent and range.
A bit of Karen Black as Portia last year

"...ah, gays and their wit. Hell must be a laugh a minute!" -Evie Harris

[strummergirl]

Karen Black has passed away#22

Posted: 10/15/13 at 5:51pm

Bumping this thread because Cass McCombs has a new record out and he did a song with Karen Black. It's called "Brighter". It's all her and it is great.

https://soundcloud.com/dominorecordco/cass-mccombs-brighter

[Playbilly]

Karen Black has passed away#23

Posted: 10/15/13 at 7:22pm

Underrated actress and a very nice woman.

"Through The Sacrifice You Made, We Can't Believe The Price You Paid..For Love!"

[henrikegerman]

Karen Black has passed away#24

Posted: 10/16/13 at 12:05pm

Among everything else, she was a fabulous singer. Her songs in Nashville were wonderful, and she wrote them as well as SOLD them.
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