{"id":14230,"date":"2012-02-04T23:18:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T23:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=14230"},"modified":"2012-02-04T23:38:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T23:38:32","slug":"ben-gazzara-1930-2012-cavett-talkshow-cassevetes-lebowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2012\/02\/04\/ben-gazzara-1930-2012-cavett-talkshow-cassevetes-lebowski\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Gazzara (1930-2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Ben-Gazzara-as-Jackie-Treehorn-in-The-Big-Lewbowski.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Ben-Gazzara-as-Jackie-Treehorn-in-The-Big-Lewbowski.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ben Gazzara as Jackie Treehorn in The Big Lewbowski\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Gazzara passed away yesterday at the age of 81.<\/p>\n<p>As an actor he starred in many significant films, both in lead and supporting roles.<\/p>\n<p>His CV includes films with such directors as <a title=\"Otto Preminger\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Otto_Preminger\">Otto Preminger<\/a>\u00a0(Anatomy of a Murder), <a title=\"John Cassavetes\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Cassavetes\">John\u00a0Cassavetes<\/a>\u00a0(several films including Husbands), <a title=\"Giuseppe Tornatore\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giuseppe_Tornatore\">Giuseppe Tornatore<\/a>\u00a0(The Professor), <a title=\"Peter Bogdanovich\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Bogdanovich\">Peter Bogdanovich<\/a>\u00a0(They All Laughed), <a title=\"David Mamet\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Mamet\">David Mamet<\/a>\u00a0(The Spanish Prisoner),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coen_brothers\">The Coen Brothers<\/a> (The Big Lebowski), <a title=\"Vincent Gallo\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vincent_Gallo\">Vincent Gallo<\/a>\u00a0(Buffalo 66),\u00a0<a href=\"Todd Solondz\">Todd Solondz<\/a> (Happiness), <a title=\"Spike Lee\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spike_Lee\">Spike Lee<\/a>\u00a0(Summer of Sam) and <a title=\"Lars von Trier\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lars_von_Trier\">Lars von Trier<\/a>\u00a0(Dogville).<\/p>\n<p>On hearing the news, my immediate thought was his\u00a0riotous\u00a0appearance\u00a0on The Dick Cavett Show, promoting Husbands in 1970 with John Cassevetes (a regular\u00a0collaborator and friend) and Peter Falk.<\/p>\n<p>Here it is and it reminds you of the days when chat show\u00a0appearances\u00a0weren&#8217;t filled with PR-led soundbites:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4NiThZ8tJLI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h-dClTQ7yPc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HC5uTO7YukE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here are some clips from his career, including interviews:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YRJ8VecuWEQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hV5P1TCF8rI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"movieclips-player\" style=\"background:#000; margin:0; padding:7px 0; width:560px; -moz-border-radius:7px; -webkit-border-radius:7px; border-radius:7px;\">\n<object width=\"560\" height=\"304\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/static.movieclips.com\/embedplayer.swf?shortid=RWkp\" style=\"display:block; overflow:hidden;\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.movieclips.com\/embedplayer.swf?shortid=RWkp\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/static.movieclips.com\/embedplayer.swf?shortid=RWkp\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"304\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"display:block; margin:7px 0 0; padding:0; width:560px; height:27px; text-align:center; font:normal 11px\/11px Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif; color:#666;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/movieclips.com\/RWkp-road-house-movie-monster-truck\/\" style=\"display:inline; font-size:12px; line-height:1.23em; color:#00AEFF; text-decoration:none; background:#000;\"><br \/>\nMonster Truck<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/movieclips.com\/KmMx-road-house-movie-videos\/\" style=\"display:inline; color:#888; text-decoration:none; background:#000;\"><br \/>\nRoad House<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014 MOVIECLIPS.com\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--0.00225806236267--><\/p>\n<p>The classic scene from The Big Lebowski can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anyclip.com\/movies\/the-big-lebowski\/at-jackie-threehorns-house\/\">by clicking here<\/a> (I didn&#8217;t embed it as it features an annoying autoplay ad, but its worth waiting for).<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/04\/movies\/ben-gazzara-actor-of-stage-and-screen-dies-at-81.html\">The New York Times story<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001262\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clips from the career of Ben Gazzara, who passed away yesterday at the age of 81.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2424],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}