Karen Black has passed away
Karen Black has passed away
#1Karen Black has passed away
Posted: 8/8/13 at 6:05pm
Come back to the five and dime...
Rest in peace.
#2Karen Black has passed away
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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DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#3Karen Black has passed away
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.
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TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#4Karen Black has passed away
Posted: 8/8/13 at 6:30pm
She was definitely one-of-a-kind!
She will be missed.
#6Karen Black has passed away
Posted: 8/8/13 at 6:39pm
I think of her, I think of African Fetish dolls.
RIP
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#7Karen Black has passed away
Posted: 8/8/13 at 6:42pm
nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#9Karen Black has passed away
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.
#11Karen Black has passed away
Posted: 8/8/13 at 7:27pmHow 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#12Karen Black has passed away
Posted: 8/8/13 at 8:39pmWho the hell is gonna land the plane now?
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#13Karen Black has passed away
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.
#14Karen Black has passed away
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!
#16Karen Black has passed away
Posted: 8/9/13 at 6:42ami 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!
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#17Karen Black has passed away
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.
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#18Karen Black has passed away
Posted: 8/9/13 at 9:48amWild and wonderful. R.I.P.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#19Karen Black has passed away
Posted: 8/9/13 at 10:05amRIP, dear lady, and flights of Zuni Warrior Dolls dance thee to thy rest.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#20Karen Black has passed away
Posted: 8/9/13 at 12:09pmAlways an interesting person to watch. I enjoyed her performance in The Great Gatsby.
#21Karen Black has passed away
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
#22Karen Black has passed away
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
#23Karen Black has passed away
Posted: 10/15/13 at 7:22pmUnderrated actress and a very nice woman.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#24Karen Black has passed away
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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