Remembering Gene Hackman

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Remembering Gene Hackman

I loved watching Gene Hackman in a ton of movies over five decades.

It’s too bad that he died under suspicious circumstances. Maybe he just knew it was his time and didn’t want to suffer; maybe his wife didn’t want to live without him.

I don’t know if he was saved. I hope he knew the Lord and is basking in the Son. I don’t know if he’d trusted Jesus as Savior and had made Him his Lord.

I hope you will believe on Jesus and have peace in the end…

He was great in the classic basketball film, Hoosiers

I loved him as Lex Luthor in Superman The Movie…

“Miss Tess-mach-er!”

“Otisburg?! “

“Kill me? Lex Luthor? Extinguish the greatest criminal flame of our age?”

“Son, stocks may rise and fall, utilities and transportation systems may collapse. People are no damn good, but they will always need land and they will pay through the nose to get it!”

Full Moon in Blue Water, was a great romance flick, with the late Teri Garr (and Burgess Meredith)…

Enemy of the State was a taut action thriller with Will Smith

Crimson Tide was a tense thrill ride, with Denzel Washington

Runaway Jury featured Rachel Weisz, John Cusack, and Hackman’s contemporary, Dustin Hoffman; lots of suspenseful fun via writer John Grisham

Mississippi Burning was an important movie

This is a song whose chorus makes me wish that Hackman is resting in peace, and that his friends and family will know that same comfort when their time comes.

The below photo and the song are strange talismans for the late actor, but this is part of my artistic process on a midweek morning, so I hope it is not too jarring. It is intended to be poignant and hopeful, and is dedicated to him and to his late wife, Betsy Arakawa.

Here Comes the Sun

Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun
And I say, it’s all right

Little darling
It’s been a long, cold, lonely winter
Little darling
It feels like years since it’s been here

Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun
And I say, it’s all right

Little darling
The smiles returning to their faces
Little darling
It seems like years since it’s been here

Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun
And I say, it’s all right

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes

Little darling
I feel the ice is slowly melting
Little darling
It seems like years since it’s been clear

Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun
And I say, it’s all right

It’s all right

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: George Harrison