Jack Palance dead

who is/was he?

one one-armed push-up too many...

This better not be another fake death thread.

You may remember him as "Curly" in the City Slickers movies with Billy Crystal. He was in all kinds of shit.

RIP Mr. Palance

If you check a few of my posts...you'll see I don't do fake death threads. Thanks for playing along though.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001588/

yeah, i just googled his name...
RIP.

So how come there isn't anything about it on cnn.com?

RIP Jack. A great actor.

It's in a bright yellow bar at the top of the page...sheesh.

It's not. Check any news source online.

Dear Lord we give you Curly, try not to piss him off!

That sucks but I thought he was already dead. Damn, now I have to be bummed about his death a second time.

oh my......

RIP Jack!

Oh I thought it was a banner and skipped over it.

No sweat lol...CNN just changed that recently I think. If I hadn't been taking an "Impeach Bush" poll over at MSNBC I wouldn't have even known about it.

May he rest in peace.

RIP, shit how old was he

Wow, a Hollywood legend.

A great actor. RIP Jack.

a big loss RIP Jack

R.I.P. Jack

Hehe, i love the City Slicker movies.


RIP...

oh dang, rip

i thought he was already dead....hmmmm.

Jack Palance was quite a guy...he was in his 70's when he did "City Slickers". He won an Oscar for his role as Curly, and during his acceptance speech dropped down and did some one armed push-ups:



A few of his quotes from City Slickers:

Curly: I crap bigger than you!

Mitch Robbins (Billy Crystal): Hi Curly. Killed anyone today?
Curly: The day ain't over yet...

He appeared in over 100 movies, mostly as a villan.

Palance died at 87, although apparently his birthdate is listed as a few different dates. (BTW, Bruno Kirby who also had a big role in City Slickers died a few months ago at age 57).



RIP Jack Palance

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Wtf ????

Poor ole Jack..he was one of my favorites..R.I.P.

may he rest in peace...

R.I.P Jack

We used to run into a guy who was an extra in one of his first movies (Panic in the Streets) at Cafe Masperos all the time. Just some trivia(l) I can add to this thread.

RIP, JP

Rip..........

RIP Jack

he will be missed

shit im trippin about Gerald LEverT!

"Have gun will travel"

2hp

RIP Jack

I loved him on Ripley's believe it or not when I was a kid. He always would end it with the most creepy voice ever lol. His voice and Vincent Price's used to scare the shit out of me.

Things some may not have known about him:

"Few people know that veteran movie actor Jack Palance was a professional heavyweight boxer in the early 1940s. Fighting under the name Jack Brazzo, Palance a product of Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania, won his first 15 fights, 12 by knockout before losing a 4th round decision to future heavyweight contender Joe Baksi on Dec. 17, 1940. With the outbreak of World War II, Jack Palance's boxing career ended and his military career began. Wounded in combat, he received the purple heart, good conduct medal, and the World War II Victory Medal. After the war he began his long and famous motion picture career.

According to a website honoring movie celebrities that flew in B-24s, Palance burned his face severely while bailing out of a B-24 which was on fire during a training flight in Tucson in 1942 (that would probably have been the Davis-Monthan Army Air Corps base at that time) and after several surgeries was discharged in 1944. He is described as a "pilot in training".

Spoke six languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Italian, Spanish, French and English.

Once fell asleep in his square during a taping of "The Hollywood Squares" (1966).

His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is in front of the display window of Fredericks of Hollywood, a seller of intimate apparel.

While an understudy to Marlon Brando in the Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire," Brando, who was into athletics, rigged up a punching bag in the theater's boiler room and invited Jack to work out with him. One night, Jack threw a hard punch that missed the bag and landed square on Brando's nose. The star had to be hospitalized and understudy Palance created his own big break by going on for Brando. Jack's reviews as Stanley Kowalski helped get him a 20th Century-Fox contract.

Was infamous in Hollywood for his Method-style acting, in a time when Marlon Brando was one of its few practitioners. Once, while filming a fight scene with Burt Lancaster, Palance actually punched the unsuspecting Lancaster in the face. Tough guy Lancaster responded by socking Palance in the gut, causing him to vomit.

One-handed pushups:

Despite all of his film work, Palance will forever be remembered for turning an Oscar acceptance speech into an uproarious display of his physical agility. While accepting his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for City Slickers (1991) at the 64th Annual Academy Awards (1992) he stumbled through a half-hearted acceptance speech and then, at a loss for anything else to say, flopped down on the floor and began doing a series of one-handed push-ups. Afterwards when he was asked about the stunt he simply said, "I didn't know what the hell else to do". A year later when he provided the voice of Rothbart in the The Swan Princess (1994), his character is featured doing one-handed push-ups.

Personal Quotes:

"The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed."

"I'm amazed people read this crap about us - about me most of all."

"One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!""



RIP Jack. :D

RIP Jack