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Robert Forster, Oscar nominee for 'Jackie Brown,' dies at 78

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rob- the role of Max Cherry with
ert Forster, the handsome Forster in mind — the actor
and omnipresent charac- had unsuccessfully audi-
ter actor who got a ca- tioned for a part in "Reser-
reer resurgence and Oscar voir Dogs," but the director
nomination for playing bail promised not to forget him.
bondsman Max Cherry in In an interview with Fandor
"Jackie Brown," died Friday. last year, Forster recalled
He was 78. that when presented with
Publicist Kathie Berlin said the script for "Jackie Brown,"
Forster died of brain cancer he told Tarantino, "I'm sure
following a brief illness. He they're not going to let you
was at home in Los Ange- hire me."
les, surrounded by family, Tarantino replied: "I hire
including his four children anybody I want."
and partner Denise Gray- "And that's when I realized
son. I was going to get another
Condolences poured in Fri- shot at a career," Forster
day night on social media. said. "He gave me a career
Bryan Cranston called For- back and the last 14 years
ster a "lovely man and a have been fabulous."
consummate actor" in a The performance opposite
tweet. The two met on Pam Grier became one
the 1980 film "Alligator" In this Monday, March 18, 2013 file photo, Robert Forster arrives at the LA premiere of "Olympus of the more heartwarm-
and then worked togeth- Has Fallen" at the ArcLight Theatre in Los Angeles. ing Hollywood comeback
er again on the television Associated Press stories, earning him his first
show "Breaking Bad" and and only Academy Award
its spinoff film, "El Camino," was trying to talk to into "Reflections in a Golden many out of necessity. nomination. He ultimately
which launched Friday on an auditorium where "Bye Eye," which starred Marlon "I had four kids, I took any lost the golden statuette
Netflix. Bye Birdie" auditions were Brando and Elizabeth Tay- job I could get," he said in to Robin Williams, who won
"I never forgot how kind being held. He would be lor. an interview with the Chi- that year for "Good Will
and generous he was to a cast in that show, that fel- Forster would go on to star cago Tribune last year. "Ev- Hunting."
young kid just starting out low student would become in Haskell Wexler's doc- ery time it reached a lower After "Jackie Brown," he
in Hollywood," Cranston his wife with whom he had umentary-style Chicago level I thought I could toler- worked consistently and
wrote. three daughters, and it classic "Medium Cool" and ate, it dropped some more, at a decidedly higher level
His "Jackie Brown" co-star would start him on a new the detective television se- and then some more. Near than during the "slump," ap-
Samuel L. Jackson tweet- trajectory as an actor. ries "Banyon." It was an ear- the end, I had no agent, pearing in films like David
ed that Forster was "truly a A fortuitous role in the 1965 ly high point that he would no manager, no lawyer, Lynch's "Mulholland Drive,"
class act/Actor!!" Broadway production "Mrs. later say was the beginning no nothing. I was taking ''Me, Myself and Irene,"
A native of Rochester, New Dally Has a Lover" put him of a "27-year slump." whatever fell through the ''The Descendants," ''Olym-
York, Forster quite literally on the radar of Darryl Za- He worked consistently cracks." pus Has Fallen," and "What
stumbled into acting when nuck, who signed him to a throughout the 1970s and It was Quentin Tarantino's They Had," and in television
in college, intending to be studio contract. He would 1980s in mostly forgettable 1997 film "Jackie Brown" shows like "Breaking Bad"
a lawyer, he followed a soon make his film debut in B-movies — ultimately ap- that put him back on the and the "Twin Peaks" reviv-
fellow female student he the 1967 John Huston film pearing in over 100 films, map. Tarantino created al. q

Scorsese says he's open-minded about Netflix film revolution

Associated Press atres too but it's a major he's not that old, she's not
LONDON (AP) — Martin change and I think one has that young," he said. "You
Scorsese said Sunday he's to keep an open mind," he accept the illusion."
keeping an open mind said. The 209-minute film is Sun-
about the cinema "revolu- "The Irishman" — about day's closing night gala for
tion" sparked by the rise of the reflections of a former the 12-day London festival.
video streaming services, Jimmy Hoffa associate and On Saturday the festival
as his Netflix-backed mafia hitman — is due to have a awarded its best film prize
epic "The Irishman" closed theatrical run from Nov. 1 to Colombian director Ale-
the London Film Festival . before its Nov. 27 release jandro Landes' child soldier
The director said the rise of on Netflix. thriller "Monos."
streaming platforms was Scorsese took the project The first feature prize went
"an even bigger revolution to Netflix after other stu- to French director Mati
than sound brought to cin- dios turned it down, partly Diop's Senegal-set drama
ema" because it "opens up due to its length and the "Atlantics," and the docu-
the original conception of expensive de-aging digital mentary award was won
what a film is" and how it effects used to make stars Actor Al Pacino, from right, director Martin Scorsese and actor by Rubika Shah for "White
Robert De Niro pose for photographers at the photocall of the
should be seen. Robert De Niro, Al Pacino film 'The Irishman' as part of the London Film Festival, in central Riot," the story of the 1970s
Scorsese told reporters he and Joe Pesci appear de- London, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. British movement Rock
thought it was still impor- cades younger. Associated Press Against Racism.
tant that movies be experi- Scorsese said the CGI ef- "Fault Line" by Iran's Soheil
enced communally. fects, which have come simply "an evolution of "You accept certain norms Amirsharifi won the short
"Homes are becoming the- in for some criticism, were makeup." in make-up — you know film trophy.q